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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon FAIRBRIDGE, Dorothea Anne Born: 1862 07 22 Died: 1931 08 25 Author Born in Sea Point, South Africa but educated in England, to where she frequently returned. During the Anglo-Boer War she founded the Loyal Women's Guild to alleviate the miseries of the war. She was a founding member of the Historical Monuments Society. She studied material in the Cape archives for her writings and produced works of non-fiction related to the old farms and houses of the Cape. She travelled widely in the Cape, also having an interest in its flora and avifauna, recording these trips in two travelogues. She died in her house 'Paradise' in Claremont, Cape Town. Books by FAIRBRIDGE Fairbridge, Dorothea. 1922. Historic houses of South Africa. London: Oxford University Press Fairbridge, Dorothea. 1924. Gardens of South Africa : with some chapters on practical gardening under South African conditions and some notes on the cultivation of South African wild flowers. Cape Town: Maskew Millar Fairbridge, Dorothea. 1931. Historic Farms of South Africa : The wool, the wheat, and the wine of the 17th and 18th centuries.. London: Oxford University Press Books citing FAIRBRIDGE Fransen, Hans. 2004. The old buildings of the Cape. A survey of extant architecture from before c1910 in the area of Cape Town - Calvinia - Colesberg - Uitenhage. Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. pp 218a, 309c HSRC. 1968. Dictionary of South African Biography Volume I. Cape Town: Tafelberg for The Human Sciences Research Council. pp 282-283 Potgieter, DJ (Editor-in-chief). 1971. Standard Encyclopaedia of South Africa [SESA] Volume 4 Dev-For. Cape Town: Nasou. pp 421-422