Dorothea

Though it's possible that you do not know the name Dorothea Lange, you probably know her photographs: the raw, intense gaze of a migrant worker, a mother with two children leaning on her, in 1930s California; the grim man in a San Francisco bread line, as weather-beaten as his slouch hat and worn-out coat.

Five Best: John Matteson 2012

Dorothea is not among the throngs in attendance when The One and Only is laid to rest.

Girl in a Blue Dress: Summary and book reviews of Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold. 2009

A: Dorothea is the anti-sentimentalist in the book.

Meg Rosoff discusses her second novel Just in Case 2010

He assented to her expressions of devout feeling, and usually with an appropriate quotation; he allowed himself to say that he had gone through some spiritual conflicts in his youth; in short, Dorothea saw that here she might reckon on understanding, sympathy, and guidance.

Middlemarch 1871

He assented to her expressions of devout feeling, and usually with an appropriate quotation; he allowed himself to say that he had gone through some spiritual conflicts in his youth; in short, Dorothea saw that here she might reckon on understanding, sympathy, and guidance.

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

So then they gat them to their sleeping-berths, and Ralph, contrary to his wont, lay long awake, pondering these things; till at last he said to himself that this woman, whom he called Dorothea, was certainly alive, and wotted that he was seeking her.

The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865

He assented to her expressions of devout feeling, and usually with an appropriate quotation; he allowed himself to say that he had gone through some spiritual conflicts in his youth; in short, Dorothea saw that here she might reckon on understanding, sympathy, and guidance.

Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

I’m up to the point where Dorothea is telling her sad tale in the presence of the barber, the priest and Cardenio.

Awards season : Bev Vincent 2009

Rather pointedly, he has called her Dorothea, the gift of God; she is already placed in a convent, where she will pray for her parents.

Cromwell & Wolsey: From 'Wolf Hall' Mantel, Hilary 2008

"Let your worship get up," said Sancho, "and you will see the nice business you have made of it, and what we have to pay; and you will see the queen turned into a private lady called Dorothea, and other things that will astonish you, if you understand them."

Don Quixote 2002