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Dorrit
Dorrit is a feminine given name. Persons bearing the name include: * Amy Dorrit, known as "Little Dorrit", the heroine of Charles Dickens' novel of the same name (1855-7) ** As an English surname, Dorrit may be a variant of the surname Durward, or a matronymic derived from the given name Dorothy. * Dorrit Black (1891–1951), Australian artist * Dorrit Dekk (1917–2014), Czech-British artist *Dorrit Hoffleit (1907–2007), American astronomer * Dorrit Jacob, German-Australian geochemist * Dorrit Kristensen (born 1938), Danish swimmer * Dorrit Moussaieff (born 1950), First Lady of Iceland * Dorrit Reventlow (born 1942), Danish translator, benefactor, philanthropist, social activist, and widow of Prince Dimitri Romanov * Dorrit Weixler (1892–1916), German actress * Dorrit Willumsen (born 1940), Danish writer See also *Dorit (other) Dorit is a given name, the Hebrew version of Doris, and may refer to: *Dorit Aharonov (born 1970), Israeli computer scientist specializin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Dorrit
''Little Dorrit'' is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirises some shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work and yet incarcerated until they had repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned. Dickens is also critical of the impotent bureaucracy of the British government, in this novel in the form of the fictional "Circumlocution Office". Dickens also satirises the stratification of society that results from the British class system. Plot summary Poverty The novel begins in Marseilles "thirty years ago" (c. 1826), with the notor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorrit Black
Dorothea Foster Black (23 December 1891 – 13 September 1951) was an Australian painter and printmaker of the modernism, Modernist school, known for being a pioneer of Modernism in Australia. In 1951, at the age of sixty, Black was killed in a car crash. Early life and training Dorrit Black was born in the Adelaide suburb of City of Burnside, Burnside, the daughter of engineer and architect Alfred Barham Black and Jessie Howard Clark, an amateur artist and daughter of John Howard Clark, editor of the South Australian Register. She attended the South Australian School of Design, South Australian School of Arts and Crafts in about 1909, working in watercolors, and attended the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney in 1915, concentrating on working in oils. In 1927, Black went by herself to London and attended the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, where she experimented with colour linocut printing while studying under Claude Flight. Black was influenced by Flight to use bold geomet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorrit Hoffleit
Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit (March 12, 1907 – April 9, 2007) was an American senior research astronomer at Yale University. She is best known for her work in variable stars, astrometry, spectroscopy, meteors, and the Bright Star Catalog. She is also known for her mentorship of many young women and generations of astronomers. Life Hoffleit's interest in astronomy began with the 1919 Perseid meteor shower that she saw with her mother. In 1928, she graduated cum laude with a B.A. in mathematics. She then went on to work for the Harvard College Observatory, searching for variable stars. In 1938, she was awarded a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College and was subsequently hired, in 1948, as an astronomer at Harvard University. She remained at Harvard until 1956 when she moved to Yale University. She remained at Yale until retirement in 1975. At Yale she followed in the footsteps of Ida Barney, taking over her astrometric work, and of whom she later wrote "To know erwas a pleasu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorrit Weixler
Dorrit Weixler (27 March 1892 – 30 November 1916) Postkarten-archiv.de (29 August 2014). Retrieved on 2015-10-08. was a film actress of the early 20th century who is best recalled for her comedic roles in German films from the era. Career The elder sister of actress Grete Weixler, Dorrit first appeared in shorts for director |
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at the age of 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years he returned to school, before he began his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, for education, and for other social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorrit Reventlow
Dorrit Romanov (''née'' Reventlow; born 22 April 1942) is a Danish translator, benefactor, philanthropist, social activist, and the widow of Prince Dimitri Romanov, who had claims to the headship of the Imperial House of Russia. Biography She was born Dorrit Reventlow on 22 April 1942 in the city of Recife, Brazil, in the family of Eric Reventlow (1903–1944) and his wife Nina Bent Rasmussen (1912–1996). Dorrit is the second child in the family, her brother George was born in 1941 and lived only eight years and died in 1949 in Denmark. Dorrit's father died when she was only two years and in 1946 the family returned to Denmark. She attended private schools in Denmark and Switzerland, where she learned Portuguese, English, French, Italian and Spanish. In 1976 she opened her own translation company in Lisbon. After the death of her first husband in 1985 she returned to Denmark, where she worked as a representative of a Portuguese tourism company, also serving as the chair of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorrit Moussaieff
Dorrit Moussaieff ( he, דורית מוסאיוף, born 12 January 1950) is an Israeli jewellery designer, editor, and businesswoman who was the First Lady of Iceland from 2003 to 2016. She became engaged to President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson in 2000 and they were married on Grímsson's 60th birthday in 2003. Born in Israel, she was raised in the United Kingdom from the age of 13. Biography Dorrit Moussaieff was born in Jerusalem, Israel. Her father, Shlomo Moussaieff, was from a wealthy Bukharian Jewish family from Bukhara, Uzbekistan, part of a long dynasty of jewellers. Dorrit is the great-granddaughter of Rabbi Shlomo Moussaieff. Ancestors of hers are said to have woven the robe of Genghis Khan. Her great-grandmother, Esther Gaonoff, was a descendant of Yosef Maimon. Her mother, Alisa, is an Austrian Jew of Ashkenazi heritage, but Dorrit identifies more with Bukharian culture and was raised by her father. Moussaieff was born and raised in the Bukharan Quarter of Jeru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorrit Dekk
Dorrit Dekk, born Dorothy Karoline Fuhrmann, (18 May 1917 – 29 December 2014) was a Czech-born British graphic designer, printmaker and painter. Early life Dekk was born in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia and trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Vienna from 1936 to 1938. There she was taught by Otto Niedermoser, the stage designer, and contributed to designs for the theatre and for film director Max Reinhardt. Following the Anschluss in 1938, Dekk escaped to London, where she took up a place at the Reimann School through a scholarship arranged by Niedermoser and specialised in graphic design. Career Following the closure of the Reimann School in 1939, Dekk joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and as a linguist became a radio intelligence officer listening to U-boat communications. As a Y-station 'listener', she intercepted coded messages sent to German naval forces with her hand-written transcripts then being sent to Bletchley Park for deciphering. At the end of the war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorrit Jacob
Dorrit E. Jacob is a German-born Australian geochemist. She is the first woman to serve as Director of the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University (ANU) where she is a full professor. Jacob completed her undergraduate studies in mineralogy and geology at the University of Mainz, Germany. She moved to the Georg-August University in University of Göttingen from which she received a Dr. rer. nat., while her PhD thesis work was performed at the Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry. Jacob was awarded the Heisenberg Chair in Biomineralisation at the University of Mainz in 2012. In 2013 Jacob moved to Australia where she took up an ARC future fellowship at Macquarie University Macquarie University ( ) is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of S ... to study the formation o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorrit Willumsen
Dorrit Willumsen (born 31 August 1940 in Nørrebro, Copenhagen) is a Danish writer. She made her literary debut in 1965 with the short story collection ''Knagen''. She was awarded the Danish Critics Prize for Literature in 1983. Kritikerprisen In 1995 she was awarded the . In 1997 she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize
The Nordic Council Literature Prize is awarded for a work of literature written in one of the languages of the Nordic countries, that meets "high lit ...
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Dorrit Kristensen
Dorrit Kristensen (born 21 March 1938) is a Danish former swimmer. She competed in the women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held .... References External links * 1938 births Living people Danish female breaststroke swimmers Olympic swimmers of Denmark Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics People from Silkeborg Sportspeople from the Central Denmark Region {{Denmark-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorit (other)
Dorit is a given name, the Hebrew version of Doris, and may refer to: *Dorit Aharonov (born 1970), Israeli computer scientist specializing in quantum computing *Dorit Bar Or (born 1975), Israeli actress and fashion designer *Dorit Beinisch (born 1942), 9th president of the Supreme Court of Israel *Dorit Chrysler (born 1966), Austrian electronic musician *Dorit Cypis (born 1951), Israeli American artist and mediator *Dorit Jellinek, Miss Israel 1978 *Dorit Kemsley, television personality on ''The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills'' *Dorit Rubinstein Reiss (born 1972-73), immunization advocate See also *Dorrit Dorrit is a feminine given name. Persons bearing the name include: * Amy Dorrit, known as "Little Dorrit", the heroine of Charles Dickens' novel of the same name (1855-7) ** As an English surname, Dorrit may be a variant of the surname Durward, o ..., a given name {{disambig, given name German feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
