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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 1896
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Date of death - 1990 |
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Dorothy Gladys Smith was born in Lancashire, England on May 3,1896. Her father, Ernest Smith, died eighteen months later of cancer.Dodie's mother, Ella Furber Smith, returned with the child to the Furber family home in a suburb of Manchester.
The household consisted of Ella's parents, two of her sisters, three brothers, and two maids, in addition to Ella and Dodie. All of the ten adults adored Dodie and entertained her continually.
Dodie's uncle Harold was an actor in amateur theatricals, and in 1904 he became president of the Manchester dramatic club known as the Athenaeum.
Dodie first attended one of his performances when she was four, and by the time she was thirteen she was on stage, playing boy's parts.
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