Doris
Doris ♀ From the classical Greek ethnic name meaning ‘Dorian woman’. The Dorians were one of the tribes of Greece; their name was traditionally derived from an ancestor,
Dōros (son of Hellen, who gave his name to the Hellenes, i.e. the Greek people as a whole), but it is more likely that Dōros (whose name could be from
dōron ‘gift’) was invented to account for a tribal name of obscure origin. In Greek mythology, Doris was a minor goddess of the sea, the consort of Nereus and the mother of his daughters, the Nereids or sea-nymphs, who numbered fifty (in some versions, more). The name was especially popular from about 1880 to about 1930, and was borne by the American film star Doris Day (b. 1924 as Doris Kappelhoff), among others.
Variant:
Dorris.
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Concocting La Dame aux camelias: blood, tears, and other fluids.(Alexandre Dumas fils)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; In June 1847, the 23-year old Dumas fils set out to write a novel loosely based...The textual strategy employed by Dumas ills to craft the story of this doomed...social, moral, and literary goals of Dumas fils' project. (2) In the first part...
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TITLE DEED HOW DID CELEBRATED BOOKS GET THEIR NAMES? Alexandre Dumas fils's La Dame aux Camlias
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/11/2005; ; 353 words
; ...the "Lady with the Camellias'' in Dumas's six-hankie novel of 1848 - the...courtesan Marie Duplessis, who became Dumas's lover for a short time between 1844...Camllia'', giving it one "l''. Dumas followed suit, admitting it was through...
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Dumas, the prodigious: a profile of Alexandre Dumas.
Magazine article from: World and I; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Daunted but not the least discouraged, Dumas undertook this ambitious reading...blue-eyed, and well built, Dumas had an exuberant charm and verve...settled in. Some nine months later, Alexandre Dumas fils came into the world. About this...
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Ashes of famed novelist Dumas to be moved, against his wishes
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 6/28/2002; ; 594 words
; ...early 1850s. The grandson of a Haitian slave, Dumas nevertheless excelled in French high society and...the Normandy region. But true to his dying wish, Dumas' son, named Alexandre Dumas fils, transported his father's remains back to Villers...
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Dumas' swashbuckling tales fall off reading lists but remain a filmmakers favorite
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...but found more inspiration from Dumas' actual life story. The grandson of a Haitian slave, Dumas was born in 1802 to a mother who...wedlock, including Camille novelist Alexandre Dumas fils. Despite his heritage, Dumas excelled...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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DUMAS' TALES FLOURISH AS FILMS BUT BOOKS STAY SHELVED.(PREVIEW)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 1/31/2002; 700+ words
; ...but found more inspiration from Dumas' actual life story. The grandson of a Haitian slave, Dumas was born in 1802 to a mother who...including ``Camille'' novelist Alexandre Dumas fils. Despite his heritage, Dumas excelled...
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INTRODUCING HIS EMOTIONAL `LADY' TO BOSTON CHOREOGRAPHER'S STORY BALLET BASED ON DUMAS NOVEL
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/14/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...and finally gives up life itself, dying alone. The high drama of "La Dame aux Camellias," the 1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, has proven irresistible to composers, choreographers, playwrights, and filmmakers, sometimes with results...
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 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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Dumas Fever.(Media&Society)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 11/17/2003; 700+ words
; ...greatest of storytelling geniuses: Dumas, Alexandre, pere not fils. Not bad! I count, let's see...horreur!--I spy that godawful Dumas product known as The Man in the...melancholic third installment of Dumas' grand Musketeers saga? (Good...
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Getting to the Heart Of 'Camille'; "Camille" Through Oct. 9 Round House Theatre Bethesda 240-644-1100
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/23/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...than time and sentiment. When the Alexandre Dumas fils novel "La Dame aux Camelias" first...cultures and different generations." Dumas's classic story has been interpreted...story is really more of a return to Dumas's original text than a modernization...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Months of preparation helps students appreciate opera.(Neighbor)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 4/11/2003; 449 words
; ...and set in Paris, is based on the French novel "La Dame aux Camelias" (The Lady of Camellias) by Alexandre Dumas fils, son of Alexandre Dumas pere, author of "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo." "I thought it was easy...
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Dumas, Alexandre, fils
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Dumas, Alexandre, fils (1824–95...destined to remain the younger Dumas's only Romantic play. He...de Madame Aubray (1867). Dumas had little liking for the...illegitimacy found expression in Le Fils naturel (1858) and Un p...
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Dumas fils
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dumas fils see Dumas, Alexandre (1824-95).
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Alexandre Dumas
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas is generally called Dumas p è reto distinguish him from his illustrious son Alexandre (known as Dumas fils ), who was also a dramatist and novelist...
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Dumas, Alexandre
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Dumas, Alexandre (or Dumas fils ) (1824–95) French dramatist. He became one of the...Empire. His play La Dame aux camélias (1852) was based on Dumas's own novel (1848) and inspired Verdi's opera La Traviata...
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Camille
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Camille [ La Dame aux Camélias ]. This dramatization of Alexandre Dumas fils's novel was first acted in France in 1852 and brought to America the following year by Jean M. Davenport in her own version...
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