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Dorita Fairlie Bruce

Author profile

born

May 20, 1885 in Palos, Spain

died

September 21, 1970

gender

female

website

http://home.swipnet.se/flickbok/bruce.htm

genre

Children's Books

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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...more

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Books by Dorita Fairlie Bruce

Average rating: 3.79 · 220 ratings · 18 reviews · 43 distinct works

	Dimsie Goes to School (Dimsie, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1921 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dimsie Moves Up (Dimsie, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1921 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dimsie, Head Girl (Dimsie, #5) 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1925	My rating:
	Dimsie Among the Prefects (Dimsie, #4) 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1923 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dimsie Moves Up Again (Dimsie, #3) by Dorita Fairlie Bruce, Bruce Dorita Fairlie 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1922 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dimsie Grows Up (Dimsie, #6) 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1924	My rating:
	The New House at Springdale (Springdale, #4) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1934	My rating:
	The Girls of St. Bride's (Nancy & St. Bride's, #1) 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1923	My rating:
	Nancy to the Rescue (Nancy & St. Bride's, #4) 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1927	My rating:
	The New Girl and Nancy (Nancy & St. Bride's, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1926	My rating: