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Marjorie Wallace (artist)
Marjorie Wallace OIB (1925 in Edinburgh – 26 June 2005 in Onrus, Western Cape) was a Scottish-born South African artist, known for her ties to the Sestigers literary movement. Wallace trained at the Edinburgh College of Art, greatly impressing with her early work and becoming the youngest person to be elected to the Royal Scottish Academy. She was awarded a travel grant to visit Europe and Italy when she graduated in 1947. At the end of her travels she settled in Montparnasse where she met the South African writer Jan Rabie and his fellow Afrikaners who eventually became known as the Sestigers, and included André Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, Etienne Leroux, Ingrid Jonker, Adam Small, Bartho Smit, Chris Barnard, Hennie Aucamp, Dolf van Niekerk, Abraham H. de Vries Abraham Hermanus de Vries (born 9 February 1937) is an Afrikaans short story writer, considered one of the most respected and beloved in Afrikaans language literature in the Sestigers. Early life and career D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret, which means pearl. It can also be spelled as Margery or Marjory. Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram. It came into English from the Old French, from the Latin ''Margarita'' (pearl). After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century. Short forms of the name include Marge, Margie, Marj (other)#People, Marj and Jorie. People *Marjorie, Countess of Carrick (also Margaret) (1253–1292), mother of Robert the Bruce *Marjorie Abbatt (1899–1991), English toy maker and businesswoman *Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), American artist *Marjorie Agosín (born 1955), American writer, activist, and professor *Marjorie Anderson (1913–1999), British actress and BBC radio broadcaster *Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (1909–2002), Scottish historian and paleographer *Marjorie Arnfield (1930–2001), English landscape artist *Marjorie Barnard (1897 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |