8-500: Doreen may refer to: Doreen (given name) , a feminine given name in English-speaking countries; any of several people or fictional characters Songs [ edit ] "Doreen", on the 1981 Frank Zappa album You Are What You Is "Doreen", on the 1993 Half Man Half Biscuit album This Leaden Pall "Doreen", on the 2010 Ace of Base album The Golden Ratio "Doreen", on
16-562: A railway station on the Canadian National Railway main line Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Doreen . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doreen&oldid=1137779698 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
24-401: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Doreen (given name) Doreen ( UK : / ˈ d ɔːr iː n / DOR -een , US : / d ɔː ˈ r iː n / dor- EEN ), also occasionally spelt Dorean or Dorine , is a feminine given name, usually found in English-speaking countries. It is a combination of Dora with
32-457: Is the masculine equivalent. Diminutive forms include Dee, Dodie, Dolly, Dory, Dot, Dottie, and Dotty. The first known use of Doreen may have been in Edna Lyall 's 1894 novel Doreen: The Story of a Singer . Doreen may refer to the following people: Edna Lyall Ada Ellen Bayly (25 March 1857 – 8 February 1903), also known as Edna Lyall , was an English novelist , who "supported
40-427: The 2015 Turnpike Troubadours album The Turnpike Troubadours Other uses [ edit ] Doreen, a cultivar of scuppernong , which is a variety of Vitis rotundifolia , a species of grape Doreen, Victoria , a suburb of Melbourne, Australia Doreen: The Story of a Singer , 1894 novel by Edna Lyall Hurricane Doreen , any of several named storms See also [ edit ] Dorreen station ,
48-640: The pseudonym "Edna Lyall" (apparently derived from transposing letters from Ada Ellen Bayly). The book was not a success. Success came with We Two , based on the life of Charles Bradlaugh , a social reformer and advocate of free thought. Her historical novel In the Golden Days was the last book read to John Ruskin on his deathbed; while Hope the Hermit was a bestseller set in the Lake District and later an inspiration for Hugh Walpole 's Rogue Herries . To Right
56-555: The suffix -een, which is related to the -ín suffix used in Irish , usually signifying small size or as an endearment. Dora is a variant of Dorothy / Dorothea , which derives from the Late Greek name Δωρόθεος (Dorotheos), which meant "gift of god" (from δῶρον /doron meaning "gift" and θεός /theos meaning "god". It is thus related to many other feminine given names, including Dorian , Dorinda , Theodora and Isidora . Theodore
64-628: The women's suffrage movement from an early age." Bayly was born in Brighton, the youngest of four children of a barrister. Early in life she lost both her parents, so that she spent her youth with an uncle in Surrey and in a Brighton private school. Bayly never married. She seems to have spent her adult life living with her two married sisters and her brother, a clergyman in Bosbury , Herefordshire . In 1879, she published her first novel, Won by Waiting , under
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