Dorothy Bonarjee
Dorothy Noel 'Dorf' Bonarjee (1894–1983) was an Indian poet and artist who was known for being awarded a Bardic chair while a student in Wales and for being the first woman internal student to be awarded a law degree by University College London. The first collection of her poetry was published in 2023, more than a century after it first was written.
Quotes
[edit]- Nothing is more wearing morally, than a weak husband.
- 'She is beautiful but she is Indian': The student who became a Welsh bard at 19 Retrieved 28 March 2025
Quotes about Dorothy Bonarjee
[edit]- She was free-spirited and committed to women's equality - not someone who would easily consent to a marriage arranged by her family in India
- 'She is beautiful but she is Indian': The student who became a Welsh bard at 19 Retrieved 28 March 2025
- Bonarjee was also a supporter of women's suffrage
- Beth R. Jenkins BONARJEE, DOROTHY NOEL ('Dorf') (1894 - 1983), poet and lawyer
- Her triumph in the college Eisteddfod in 1914 prompted a burst of poetic creativity which has now been celebrated in the first ever collati0n of her verse.
- Dorf, the 'Hindu bard', back in Aberystwyth at last Retrieved 28 March 2025
