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Fuller Name
- Victoria Eleanor Louise
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1880-01-11
Death Date
- 1950-05-02
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1922
- Affiliation End: 1944
- Organization: King's High School for Girls (Warwick, England)
Birth Place
- Port Antonio (Jamaica)
Associated Language
- English
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Sources
- found: The microbe man : a life of Pasteur for children, 1950:t.p. (Eleanor Doorly)
- found: Wikipedia, viewed February 15, 2023(Victoria Eleanor Louise Doorly (11 January 1880--2 May 1950) was a British writer of children's books. For her biography of Marie Curie, The Radium Woman she won the 1939 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject; born in Richmond Hill, Port Antonio, Jamaica; wrote three popular biographies of French scientists--Fabre, Pasteur, and Curie; headmistress of the King's High School For Girls in Warwick from 1922 to 1944)
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Change Notes
- 2007-07-20: new
- 2023-02-18: revised
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