Dorothea is from the Greek dōron (gift) + theos (god) — same elements as Theodora in reverse order. **Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)** — **American documentary photographer whose Dust Bowl-era images — most famously *Migrant Mother* (1936) of Florence Owens Thompson — defined the visual memory of the Great Depression**. **Worked for the Farm Security Administration** alongside Walker Evans and Marion Post Wolcott. **Dorothea Brooke** is the heroine of **George Eliot's *Middlemarch* (1871-72)** — widely considered the greatest English novel. **Dorothea Dix (1802-1887)** — American activist whose 1841 testimony to the Massachusetts legislature founded the modern asylum reform movement.
Subject of Linda Gordon's *Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits* (2009).
Dorothea reduces to four — the number of gift of God.