Dorfy, is a noted dialect author and journalist who specialises in the Geordie

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 dialect.

Born in to a Quaker

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 family in George Scott Street, South Shields

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, England

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influenced by her childhood, she went on to write works concerned with the Geordie dialect.

Dorfy also had her own column for many years in the South Shields Gazette revolving around her early twentieth century South Shields upbringing; spoken in the Geordie dialect.
In her later years she retired to Hexham.