- ^ Frontmatter, The Classic, Vol. 1, Issues 1 and 2. Amazwi Museum, Makhanda.
- ^ a b Fonds DBG - Dorothy Blair Archive, University of Westminster Archive. Accessed 26 December 2020.
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Dorothy Blair | |
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| Born | 1913 Birmingham, England |
| Died | 1998 (aged 84–85) |
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| Alma mater | Royal Holloway College |
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| Institutions | University of Cape Town University of the Witwatersrand |
Dorothy Sara Blair, nee Greene (1913–1998) was an English scholar and translator of Francophone African literature.
Marjorie Greene was born in Birmingham, England. She studied at Royal Holloway College before training to teach French at Cambridge. In 1939 she married Maurice Blair, and moved to South Africa. She was a university lecturer at the University of Cape Town before becoming professor of romance languages at the University of the Witwatersrand. She served as a trustee for The Classic, a literary magazine created by Nat Nakasa in Johannesburg, alongside Nadine Gordimer, Julian Beinart, Nimrod Mkele, and others.[1] On retirement she returned to England, living in Brighton and carrying out freelance literary translation from French.[2]
Her papers are held at the University of Westminster.[2]