Author: Constance H. D. Stocker
Author: Constance H. D. Stocker (born 1856)
Alternate Name(s): Constance Hamilton Dunbar Stocker (maiden name); Giglioli (married name)
Biography: Constance Hamilton Dunbar Stocker was born on 2 October 1856 in Rome, the eldest daughter of clergyman Edward Seymour Stocker and his first wife Jean Hamilton (née Dunbar). Her father was the rector of Titchwell, Norfolk, but it does not seem as if the family lived there. Stocker's mother died during her childhood and her father remarried. As a teenager, she wrote a novel, Between the Acts (1884). In 1886, she married the Italian chemist Italo Emilio Giglioli and the couple would move to Italy. Many of Stocker's siblings would also live abroad in China, New Zealand, and the United States, and her son George Giglioli would become a noted malariologist in Guyana. Stocker wrote a history of Naples (1903), a collection of poems (1922), and a family history (1935). Thereafter she cannot be traced.
References: British Census (1871, 1881); George Giglioli, Demerara Doctor (2006); London Evening Standard (4 September 1886)
Fiction Titles:
- Between the Acts: A Novel. 3 vol. London: Bentley, 1884.