1. Dorothy, Lady Dunnett was a Scottish novelist best known for her historical fiction.
14 Facts About Dorothy Dunnett
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Dorothy Dunnett was educated at James Gillespie's High School for Girls in Edinburgh.
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Dorothy Dunnett started her career as a press officer in the civil service, where she met her husband.
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Dorothy Dunnett had portraits commissioned by a number of prominent public figures in Scotland.
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Dorothy Dunnett had a keen interest in opera, was a trustee of the National Library of Scotland, a board member of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, a trustee of the Scottish National War Memorial, and a non-executive director of Scottish Television.
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Dorothy Dunnett was married in 1946 to Sir Alastair Dunnett, editor of The Scotsman newspaper, and appears in his autobiography, Among Friends, 1984.
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Dorothy Dunnett died in Edinburgh, and was survived by her sons Ninian and Mungo Dunnett.
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The second volume, which was written after the Niccolo series was completed, contains a bibliography of many of the hundreds of primary and secondary sources Dorothy Dunnett used in her historical research.
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Dorothy Dunnett contributed more to the second volume than the first and wrote many of the entries.
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In collaboration with her husband, Alastair Dorothy Dunnett, she wrote the text for the photography book The Scottish Highlands, published in 1988.
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On 22 April 2006, a memorial stone to Lady Dorothy Dunnett was laid by her grandchildren, Hal and Bella Dorothy Dunnett, alongside those for Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott in the Makars' Court in Lady Stair's Close on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.
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Dorothy Dunnett readers are devoted and active, and have held gatherings in Edinburgh in 1990,1994, and in 2000 with over 300 people in attendance.
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Also the formal Annual General Meeting of the Dorothy Dunnett Society is held each spring in Edinburgh as part of its Dorothy Dunnett Weekend.
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In 2011, the first International Dorothy Dunnett Day was announced by the Dorothy Dunnett Society to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Game of Kings.