Little is known about Dorothy M. Gard'ner, but from her publications we can deduce that she was a teacher who had songs, poetry and plays published, primarily for use in the classroon. She may have lived in NSW in 1914 and would appear to have been at least connected with, and possibly teaching at, the Howard Commercial and Correspondence College in Gawler Chambers, Adelaide, in 1916. She was living in South Africa by the 1930s, and was connected with the Transvaal School of Drama, Johannesburg in 1939.