Dorothea Fairbridge Bibliography

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DOROTHEA ANN FAIRBRIDGE (1862–1931)

That Which Hath Been (1910)

https://books.google.gr/books?id=ClfLLh9RbE4C

Piet Of Italy (1913)

https://books.google.gr/books?id=Gk0SpFNFFWAC

The Torch Bearer (1915)

https://books.google.gr/books?id=EJ5UsBKb6PAC

A History Of South Africa (1918)

ℹ️ "Since the passing of the Act of Union which welded into one country the four South African States, great events have shaken the world to its foundations. In the clash of arms the Youngest of the Nations has been called to bear her part, not only in standing shoulder to shoulder with her sister states of the Empire on the battle-fields of Europe, but in dealing with that Empire's enemies at her own gates.

German South-West Africa is to-day the South-Western Protectorate, brought under the British flag by South African troops led by General Botha. In German East Africa General Smuts has achieved great success at the head of troops drawn from England, India, and South Africa. Side by side the men of South Africa have fought and died, and not one of them has paused to say to his neighbour, 'Are you English or Dutch?' for all alike have fought for the honour of the land in which they have a common heritage.

Far away, under the withered trees of Delville Wood, and in many another spot in France and Flanders, sleep the men of South Africa who have given their lives to uphold the great ideals of liberty and justice, the men whose fathers fought each other at Magersfontein and Diamond Hill, whose ancestors came from that France and Flanders in which their sons have died, or from the Motherland in the North Sea.

The history of South Africa up to the Union is but the prelude to the great events in which she has been called to play her part almost before the ink was dry upon the charter which has bound in one her people, be they of British, Dutch, French, or any other ancestry. Her future lies in the hands of her children. It is due to her that thej' should know what has gone to the making of her past, in order that that future may be firmly built on knowledge, equity, and a common love for the land and loyalty to the Empire of which it is a part."
(Preface)

https://archive.org/details/cu31924028694937/page/n5/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthaf00fairuoft/page/n5/mode/2up

Historic Houses Of South Africa (1922)

ℹ️ "MISS FAIRBRIDGE, who is a keen and loving student of our South African past, has written this interesting and valuable book on old Cape Architecture. She has asked me to say a few words by way of introduction. Although I have no qualifications for the honour thus thrust upon me, I feel I may not refuse it.

The old Dutch homesteads of South Africa deserve to be better known than they are. In a country where, as a rule, Nature is everything and Art literally nowhere, our old Dutch houses form the most notable exception to the rule. The genius of South Africa has shown itself in action—in great deeds, heroic sacrifices, and gifts of leadership—rather than in the domain of Art. Neither in Music nor in Literature nor in Painting nor in Sculpture have we anything yet to compare with the performance of older countries. The one exception is our domestic architecture, and there our production is of a unique character. I believe it was Ruskin who said that the only real contribution to Architecture for the last few centuries has been made by the Dutch in South Africa—or something to that effect. And the truth of this will be clear to all who have studied the noble houses built at the Cape in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Since then our taste has been debauched by the commonplace or hideous types introduced from abroad. It is only quite recently that Mr. Herbert Baker has taken us back to the old Cape style, and has popularized its distinctive features in many a beautiful house in most parts of South Africa.

In the book before us Miss Fairbridge endeavours to trace the origin and growth of this distinctive old Dutch style, and gives us numerous examples of its best achievements."

It may serve a twofold purpose. In the first place it may help to carry across the seas something of the spirit of South Africa, so that our sister nations may know the beauty that lies in her old homesteads and the charm that lingers in her vine-covered stoeps and in the villages set about with orchards. South Africa has a great heritage, a fine tradition which has come down to the present day with the houses which were thriving homesteads years before Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg, and we who love her would have her beauty and her charm known in the ends of the earth. But, in the second place, the book has a message for our own people too, and above all for those who have too lightly valued an architecture which is in many ways unique in the world. If the calamities which have fallen upon some of the old houses, either through neglect or through wanton destruction, are a cause for regret, there is also cause for hope in the awakening consciousness of the people of South Africa to the value of these homesteads. In a world which, for the moment, has lost much of its beauty, let us help to keep alive respect for the old buildings which are not only charming and pleasant and peculiar to the country, but are also shrines of the spirit of our forefathers and of their faith in the land which is our home."
(Foreword · J. C. Smuts)

https://archive.org/details/cu31924014905834/page/n9/mode/2up

Gardens Of South Africa (1924)

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001506381
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