Dorothea Fairbridge

Dorothea Ann Fairbridge da ake kira Dora Fairbridge (1862 - 25 Agusta 1931) marubuciya ce ta Afirka ta Kudu kuma wacce ta kafa kungiyar Guild of Loyal Women.

 Tarihin rayuwa 
Fairbridge diyar fitaccen lauya ce, masani kuma dan majalisar Cape Town, kuma kani na Kingsley Fairbridge (1885-1924; mawaƙin Rhodesian kuma wanda ya kafa "Fairbridge Society"). Ta yi karatu a Landan kuma ta yi balaguro sosai.

A matsayinta na ɗan Biritaniya na ƙarni na uku da ake girmamawa sosai, Fairbridge ta kasance ginshiƙi na kafa mulkin mallaka. Ta sadu da matan Birtaniya daga manyan kungiyoyin jama'a wadanda suka yi tafiya zuwa Afirka ta Kudu daga Birtaniya kafin da kuma lokacin yakin Boer na biyu. Fairbridge ta kasance memba ce ta kungiyar Guild of Loyal Women, kungiyar agaji da ke karfafa mata a Afirka ta Kudu kuma ta tallafa wa Daular Biritaniya da sojojinta na Birtaniyya da suka shiga rikici. Kungiyar ta tabbatar da an tuntubi 'yan uwan ​​sojojin da suka mutu, kuma an yi wa kaburbura alama da kuma rubuta su yadda ya kamata. Lokacin da ƙungiyar ta aika da membobi zuwa Biritaniya don bayyana abin da suke yi don tara kuɗi, matan da ke da kunnen kafa Birtaniyya maza sun kafa ƙungiyar Victoria don haɓaka alaƙa tsakanin ƙungiyoyi a cikin Daular Burtaniya. Waɗannan matan sun jawo Violet Markham, Edith Lyttelton, Violet Cecil da Margaret, Countess of Jersey duk waɗanda suka sadu da Dorothea Fairbridge a zamantakewa.

Bayan yakin Boer, Fairbridge ta ci gaba da tallafa wa Afirka ta Kudu shiga cikin Daular Burtaniya. Ta nemi kafa Tarayyar Afirka ta Kudu tare da daidaita yawan jama'a da fahimtar tarihin Afirka ta Kudu. An kafa Tarayyar Afirka ta Kudu a cikin tsarin tsarin mulki wanda ya karfafa dangantaka ta kud da kut da sauran daular Biritaniya.

 Ayyuka 
Ayyukanta sun haɗa da:

 That Which Hath Been (1910) — wani labari da aka kafa a farkon tarihin Cape.
 Piet of Italy (1913)
 The Torch Bearer (1915)
 History of South Africa (1917) — tarihin makaranta
 Historic Houses of South Africa (1922) —nazarin tsoffin gonaki na Cape Dutch
 The Uninvited (1926)
 Along Cape Roads (1928) — Jagorar tafiya
 The Pilgrim's Way in South Africa (1928) — jagorar tafiya
 Historic Farms of South Africa (1932) — nazarin tsoffin gonaki na Cape Dutch
 Gardens of South Africa (1934) — Tare da wasu babi kan aikin lambun da ya dace a ƙarƙashin yanayin Afirka ta Kudu da wasu bayanai kan noman furannin daji na Afirka ta Kudu.

Fairbridge ta gyara:

 Cape diaries  (1924) na Lady Anne Barnard

 Manazarta 

 Bayanan kula 

 Bush, Julia (2000), Edwardian Ladies and Imperial Power (misali ed.), A&C Black, p. 90, ISBN 9780718500610
 Sage, Lorna; Greer, Germaine; Showalter, Elaine, ed. (1999), "Fairbridge, Dorothea (Ann)", Jagoran Cambridge ga Rubutun Mata a Turanci (wanda aka kwatanta ed.), Jami'ar Jami'ar Cambridge, p. 230, ISBN 9780521668132