Dorothy Samuelson-Sandvid
{{Short description|Author and journalist, 1902-1984}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Dorothy Samuelson-Sandvid
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| pseudonym = Dorfy
| birth_name = Dorothy Samuelson-Sandvid
| birth_date = 14 November 1902
| birth_place = South Shields, County Durham, England
| death_date = August 1984
| death_place = Acomb, Northumberland, England
| occupation = Author, journalist
| nationality = English
| citizenship =
| education = St. Johns' Higher Grade School, South Shields
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| period = wrote for Shields Gazette from before the War until about 1970
| genre = family stories and her own take on the general news
| subject = Geordie Dialect
| movement = Shields, Irthington, Shields, Allendale, Hexham.
| notableworks = Basinful o' Geordie: Tyneside Readings (1970)
Between Ye an' Me (1969)
I Remember (1976)
Watt cheor? (197?)
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Dorothy Samuelson-Sandvid (14 November 1902 – August 1984), known as Dorfy, was a noted dialect author and journalist who specialised in the Geordie dialect.
Early life
Born Dorothy Pilbin in 1902 to a Quaker family in George Scott Street, South Shields, County Durham influenced by her childhood, she went on to write works concerned with the Geordie dialect.{{cite book
| last = Dorothy (Dorfy)
| first = Samuelson-Sandvid
| title = A Basinful o Geordie
| publisher = Coquet, GB
| edition = 1st Thus
| year = 1988
| url = http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=2314926290&searchurl=an%3DDORFY.
| isbn =0900463112
}} Educated at St. Johns' Higher Grade School, South Shields. As there was no work for her father the family moved from Shields to Irthington, then back to Shields before 1938, then to Allendale in 1946, and then Hexham in 1959.
Career
Dorfy had her own column for many years in the Shields Gazette revolving around her early twentieth century South Shields upbringing; spoken in the Geordie dialect.{{cite web
|title=Dorphy, Dorothy Samuelson-Sandvid. Dorphy's Geordie dialog, South Shields Gazette
|url=http://website.lineone.net/~d.ord/Dorphy.htm
|accessdate=4 November 2007 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20030413133406/http://website.lineone.net/~d.ord/Dorphy.htm |archivedate = 13 April 2003}}
In her later years she retired to Hexham.{{Citation
| title = A housewife's lot, according to Dorfy
| newspaper = South Shields Gazette
| date = 22 July 2009
| url = http://www.shieldsgazette.com/cookson/A-housewife39s-lot-according-to.5483030.jp
| access-date = 31 August 2009
| archive-date = 5 August 2009
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090805114354/http://www.shieldsgazette.com/cookson/A-housewife39s-lot-according-to.5483030.jp
| url-status = dead
}}
Bibliography
- Basinful o' Geordie (1988)
- Between Ye an' Me (1969)
- I Remember (1976); A book detailing reminiscences from 1910 – 1914.{{cite book
| last = Dorothy (Dorfy)
| first = Samuelson-Sandvid
| title = I Remember
| publisher = Tree Press, UK
| year = 1976
| url = http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1289846740&searchurl=an%3DDORFY.
| isbn =978-0-904790-02-3}}
- Mair Geordie Taalks{{cite book
| last = Dorothy (Dorfy)
| first = Samuelson-Sandvid
| title = Mair Geordie Taalks
| publisher = Harold Hill
| edition = 1st
| year = 1964
| url = http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1392442744&searchurl=an%3DDORFY}}
- Watt cheor? (197?)
- HOWAY HINNIES! Another Collection of Dialect Stories and Poems (195?){{cite book
| last = Dorothy (Dorfy)
| first = Samuelson-Sandvid
| title = HOWAY HINNIES! Another Collection of Dialect Stories and Poems.
| publisher = The Northern Press, South Shields
| date =c. 1950
| url = http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=972973257&searchurl=an%3Ddorfy}}
References
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Category:People from South Shields
Category:English women non-fiction writers
Category:English women journalists