She was the daughter of Professor Richard Lunn, the Ceramics Instructor at the Camberwell School of Art. She studied pottery at Camberwell, where she encountered a male biased curriculum. It allowed men to make the pots whilst the Women were only allowed to decorate.

In 1907 she qualified for a Board of Education Art Class Teaching certificate and by 1908 she was an Associate of the Royal College of Art. She is recorded as having exhibited 9 works at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool.

The frustrations encountered at Camberwell may have led to her founding the Ravenscourt Pottery at Ravenscourt Park in London in 1916. Here she only employed women, taking unskilled girls and training them. She even had time to design a new lightweight wheel which allowed her girls to complete the entire pottery process.

She exhibited at the 1917 British Industries Fair, where both Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra purchased items. this success led to expansion with a new larger kiln, followed by an enlarged range of wares and further exhibitions. Wares included decorated domestic items such as dinner and tea ware, vases, jugs and jam pots, plus a range  figures including children, birds, goose, frog and a penguin.

The factory closed in 1925.

Dora also designed a range produced at the Fulham Pottery called "Fulraven" after which she was involved in ceramic teaching writing a book titled "Pottery in Making" and from 1943 - 1955 she worked from a studio in Shepherds Bush.

Timeline

1881- Born
c1905 - studied at Camberwell
1907 - Gained Art Teaching certificate
1908 - Associate of the Royal College of Art
1916 - founded Ravenscourt Pottery, Ravenscourt Park, London
1917 - exhibits at the British Industries Fair
1918 - exhibits at the British Industries Fair
1919 - exhibits at the British Industries Fair
1923 - exhibits at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition
1925 - pottery closes
1926 - exhibits at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition
1943 - 1955 working Shepherds Bush
c1961 - dies
 

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