Dorina Neave

Dorina Neave, Lady Neave (1880–1955) was the writer of three books about Turkey. Life In Turkey Born Dorina Lockhart Clifton, she was taken by her father, George H. Clifton, to the Ottoman Empire in her early years, as he worked for the Supreme Consular Court there. They resided in the "Edip Efendi Yali", one of the "water mansions" of Constantinople built on the shores of the Bosphorus in the Tulip period. She wrote three books linked to her time in Turkey. Twenty-six Years on the Bosphorus (1933) and Romance of the Bosphorus (1949) - (a "literary classic") are reminiscences of her life in Constantinople during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II (reigned 1876–1909), while Remembering Kut is an account of the devastating Siege of Kut (1915-1916) during the First World War on the Turkish Front. A Turkish translation of Twenty-six Years on the Bosphorus was published in 1978, and another in 2008 in a series called "The Turks through the Eyes of the West". Dorina spent her last summer in Turkey in 1907, and on 26 August (her birthday) that year, she left. In Britain Soon after returning to England, Dorina met her future husband, Sir Thomas Neave, 5th Baronet. After their marriage in November 1908, she settled with her husband at Dagnam Park, his house in Essex, with a second home in Anglesey (Llys Dulas Manor, slightly north of Dulas Bay).