dorothea

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Definition of dorothea in English English dictionary

A female given name, a Latinate variant of Dorothy

Bowen Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Dix Dorothea Lynde Lange Dorothea

a Latinate variant of Dorothy

{i} female first name

Related Terms

Dorothea Dix

born April 4, 1802, Hampden, District of Maine, Mass., U.S. died July 17, 1887, Trenton, N.J. U.S. social reformer on behalf of the mentally ill. She opened a school for girls in Boston in 1821, and in 1841 she began teaching Sunday school in a jail, where she was distressed to see the mentally ill imprisoned with criminals. For 18 months she toured mental institutions, and in 1843 she reported their deplorable conditions to the Massachusetts legislature. After improvements were made, she expanded her campaign to other states. Through her work, special mental hospitals were built in 15 states and in Canada

Dorothea Lange

born May 26, 1895, Hoboken, N.J., U.S. died Oct. 11, 1965, San Francisco, Calif. U.S. documentary photographer. She studied photography and opened a portrait studio in San Francisco in 1919. During the Great Depression, her photos of homeless men led to her employment by a federal agency to bring the plight of the poor to public attention. Her photographs were so effective that the government established camps for migrants. Her Migrant Mother (1936) was the most widely reproduced of all Farm Security Administration pictures. She produced several other photo essays, including one documenting the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans

Dorothea Lynde Dix

born April 4, 1802, Hampden, District of Maine, Mass., U.S. died July 17, 1887, Trenton, N.J. U.S. social reformer on behalf of the mentally ill. She opened a school for girls in Boston in 1821, and in 1841 she began teaching Sunday school in a jail, where she was distressed to see the mentally ill imprisoned with criminals. For 18 months she toured mental institutions, and in 1843 she reported their deplorable conditions to the Massachusetts legislature. After improvements were made, she expanded her campaign to other states. Through her work, special mental hospitals were built in 15 states and in Canada

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

born June 7, 1899, Dublin, Ire. died Feb. 22, 1973, London, Eng. Irish-born British novelist and short-story writer. Among her novels are The House in Paris (1935), The Death of the Heart (1938), and The Heat of the Day (1949). Her short-story collections include The Demon Lover (1945). Her finely wrought prose style frequently details uneasy and unfulfilling relationships among the upper middle class. Her essays appear in Collected Impressions (1950) and Afterthought (1962)

Hyphenation

Dor·o·the·a

Turkish pronunciation

dôrıthiı

Pronunciation

/ˌdôrəˈᴛʜēə/ /ˌdɔːrəˈθiːə/

Etymology

() See Dorothy