Dorothy Middleton (1909–1999)
Autore di Victorian Lady Travellers
Opere di Dorothy Middleton
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- Altri nomi
- Butler, Dorothy (née)
- Data di nascita
- 1909-11-09
- Data di morte
- 1999-02-03
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Lahore, Pakistan
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Lahore, Pakistan
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- biographer
magazine editor
public lecturer - Organizzazioni
- Royal Geographical Society (fellow)
- Breve biografia
- Dorothy Middleton, née Butler, was born and spent her early childhood in Lahore, then in India, where her father, Sir Montagu Butler, was a deputy commissioner in the waning years of the British Raj. She was sent to boarding school in England for her education but retained a strong affection for India. In 1938, she married Lawrence Middleton, a lawyer. In the mid-1950s, she was introduced by the publisher John Murray to some letters written by Isabella Bird Bishop, the 19th-century explorer, which sparked Dorothy's consuming interest in women travellers. The result was the book Victorian Lady Travellers (1965); a series of articles for the New Dictionary of National Biography; and a large number of public lectures. In 1959, together with A.A. Thomson, she published Lugard in Africa. She also edited a centennial reprint of Sir Francis Galton's The Art of Travel (1971). She became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society on the nomination of her brother, the politician R.A. Butler, and assistant editor of The Geographical Journal, a position she held for 20 years.
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