Charlotte Isabel Atkins Dick aka Mrs. Ronald Dick aka C. I. Dick.

Isabel Dick was born in Tasmania, an island state of Australia, and wrote 25 books set there.

Isabel, or Daisy, was the daughter of Kate Shoobridge (b1850), one of Charlotte Shoobridge’s hard-working daughters, and Quaker accountant Charles Atkins. In 1887, when Daisy Atkins was six, several died during a typhoid epidemic in Hobart; Daisy caught it from her father and was, for a time, deaf, blind and speechless; her life was despaired of. She recovered, but wore thick-lensed glasses thereafter.