Dorothy Nixon's Writings
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Short Story
Jul.06.2012
pdf
Edith Nicholson, 1910 school marm, discovers the cruel true story behind her fiance's death by fire.
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Short Story
Jan.05.2012
ebook, pdf, draft 1
In 1927, the City of Montreal was at its peak of influence and power, even if the Toronto media liked to write of the city as corrupt to the core and 'so French.'
It was the Prohibition Era in the US and it is said that many crime bosses went North to control their American interests from the Northern city.
American tourists certainly flooded to...
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Essay
Aug.31.2011
2010
Nothing sends me back to my adolescence more than those fresh, fanciful vintage Yardley commercials.
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Article
Aug.31.2011
2010
In 1910 American Director James Searle Darley was hired by Edison and the Canadian Government to cross the country to create documentaries to 'sell' the country to Americans.
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Article
Aug.31.2011
2010
In 1911, Flora Nicholson, 19, goes to see a popular play called Everywoman, a morality play about (according to the New York Times' review)' the lure of vice, the joys of virtue and the deceptions of flattery' featuring beautiful young actresses in beautiful clothes.
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Aug.31.2011
2008
One hundred years ago a middle aged woman was forced into buying a big hat she didn't really want. What has this to do with today? A lot it seems.
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Essay
Aug.31.2011
2001
The form of female blood that's not acceptable for viewing in movies or television
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Short Story
Aug.28.2011
n/a
Looking for Mrs. Peel tells the story of Dorothy Nixon, colonial librarian and wife of a rubber planter, who was interned in Changi Prison during WWII and tortured in the infamous Double Tenth Incident. From a true story and first person account.
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Article
Aug.28.2011
2007
GONE WITH THE WINDOWS
It's possible that in a few years the current computer storage format will be as impenetrable as a cuneiform tablet.
DOROTHY NIXON -
Monday, October 16, 2006 (Originally published in Globe and Mail.) All Rights Reserved Dorothy Nixon
The other day, I had trouble accessing Photoshop through our home network. The...
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Short Story
Aug.28.2011
e-book
The Story of a Young Woman at College in 1911 (one hundred years ago) based on real letters.
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I appreciate you wit, wisdom and miraculous turn around time.”
—A Certain Editor
About Dorothy
I've worked in radio, television, advertising and P.R. and studied communications at McGill University, so it's no wonder that "the media" is always a character in my writing.
I've published many essays and Op-Eds over the years on women's issues....
Dorothy’s Favorite Books
Poisonwood Bible; the Taxi Queue; the English Patient; Alias Grace; Nella Last's War etc.