Main entry | Duffield, Dorothy Dean (Anne) Tate |
Birth place | West Orange, Essex, New Jersey, USA |
Birth date | 20 November 1889 |
Death place | Marlborough, Wiltshire, England |
Death date | 11 November 1976 |
Identifier | 0269 |
Birth name | Dorothy Dean Tate |
Alternate names | Anne Duffield |
Married name | Duffield |
Marital status | married |
Religious affiliation | Methodist; Anglican |
Biography | Dorothy Dean Tate (1893-1976) was born in Orange, New Jersey where her father was engaged in electrical research; Alfred Orde Tate later documented his work as Thomas Edison's secretary in EDISON'S OPEN DOOR. Dorothy's went to a private girls' school in Toronto and then to Paris where she attended the Sorbonne. She published her first novel, THE STORY OF YUKU (1910) in Toronto when she was seventeen, but did not publish again after her 1922 marriage to Edgar Willoughby Duffield (c1886-1965). In 1928, after returning to live in London, she resurfaced in print as "Anne Duffield," popular writer of romances set in exotic locales. Dorothy became so identified with "Anne" that many reference works list her name as Anne, unaware of the pseudonym. Her lifetime output amounted to more than fifty books, many issued under multiple titles. Dorothy made several visits home to her family in Toronto, and died in England in 1976. |
Travel | Toronto (to visit father), 1928; New York (via Liverpool), 1929 |
Residences | Orange, New Jersey (1889); Lindsay, Ontario (1901); Toronto, Ontario (1906-1910); Paris, France; London, England (-1912); Toronto, Ontario (1912); London, England (1928, 1929); Wiltshire, England (-1976) |
Geographic regions | Ontario |
Primary genres | fiction (popular) |
Books | more than 50 titles; for a complete list see CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS— PERMANENT SERIES vol. I. |
Father's name | Alfred Orde Tate |
Life dates of father | c1864, Peterborough, Ontario - after 1924 |
Father's note | electrical researcher and inventor, especially in Victorian cinematic development; Thomas Edison's secretary; author of EDISON'S OPEN DOOR; travelled extensively during late 1910s and 1920s |
Mother's name | Eliza H. ("Bessie") Dean |
Life dates of mother | 23 July 1862, Ontario - after 1920 |
Mother's note | Daughter of Hon. William W. Dean, County Court Judge of County of Victoria |
Spouse 1 | Edgar Willoughby Duffield |
Life dates of spouse 1 | c1886, Mauritius - 1965, Marlborough, England |
Spouse 1 note | Order of the British Empire, company director |
Marriage 1 date | 19 May 1921 |
Marriage 1 place | St Martin, London, England |
Biographical references | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS—PERMANENT SERIES, vol. I; 1901 Census of Canada; Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935; England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005; New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957; England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005; New Jersey, Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931 |
Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), pp. 277-79 |
Research references | complete |
Image credits | Line drawing by Una Vernelli (Vancouver, British Columbia). |
Copyright | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Please cite Canada's Early Women Writers. SFU Library Digital Collections. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. 1980-2014. |