birth_date: 1885-05-20 00:00:00
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name: Dorita Fairlie Bruce
about: Dorothy Morris Fairlie Bruce was born in 1885, in Palos, Spain, the daughter of Scots civil engineer Alexander Fairlie Bruce, and his wife, Katherine Elizabeth Fairbairn. Soon after her birth, the family returned to Scotland, and Bruce spent her early childhood in Blanefield, on the Campsie Hills, Stirling. The family moved to Ealing, West London, in 1895, where Bruce would live until 1949.Educated at Clarence House in Roehampton - a boarding school she would use as the model for the Jane Willard Foundation, in her "Dimsie" books - Bruce, who was unmarried, devoted much of her middle adulthood to caring for her invalid mother, and helping to raise her brother's three children, after his death. She was actively involved with the Girls Guildr Dorothy Morris Fairlie Bruce was born in 1885, in Palos, Spain, the daughter of Scots civil engineer Alexander Fairlie Bruce, and his wife, Katherine Elizabeth Fairbairn. Soon after her birth, the family returned to Scotland, and Bruce spent her early childhood in Blanefield, on the Campsie Hills, Stirling. The family moved to Ealing, West London, in 1895, where Bruce would live until 1949.Educated at Clarence House in Roehampton - a boarding school she would use as the model for the Jane Willard Foundation, in her "Dimsie" books - Bruce, who was unmarried, devoted much of her middle adulthood to caring for her invalid mother, and helping to raise her brother's three children, after his death. She was actively involved with the Girls Guildry, an organization similar to the Girl Guides, serving at President of the Guildry's West London Centre, in the 1930s. Upon the death of her own father, in 1949, Bruce returned to Scotland, buying a house in Upper Skelmorlie, in North Ayeshire, where she lived until her death in 1970.Bruce is primarily remembered as the author of the nine-book "Dimsie" series, which began with The Senior Prefect, originally published in 1921, and then reissued in 1925 as Dimsie Goes to School, and continued through Dimsie Carries On, published in 1941. Other works include the "Nancy books," the six-volume "Springdale" series, the "Toby books," and the "Sally books." Although 1921 marked the appearance of her first book, Bruce had been publishing stories and poems in magazines and annuals for fifteen years, at that point, and continued to do so. ...more
death_date: 1970-09-21 00:00:00