![]() ![]() When he died in 1913, the twenty-year-old Dorothy made a living by playing piano at a Manhattan dance school. Late in life, she described herself as “one of those awful children who wrote verses,” but despite her writerly inclinations, she left school abruptly at age fourteen, never to return, to take care of her ill father, who was once again a widower. She would always maintain this image of herself, and in the face of early alienation and many disappointments, she developed a biting and irreverent sense of humor. ![]() Henry Rothschild told the school authorities that his daughter was Episcopalian, but her dark Jewishness marked her as an outsider. Soon thereafter, her father, who had made a small fortune in the garment industry, married a strict Roman Catholic, whom Dorothy bitterly disliked.Īs a young girl, she attended, and despised, a Catholic school in Manhattan, later transferring to Miss Dana’s, a boarding school. Eliza Rothschild died when Parker was five years old, an event that devastated the child. Henry Rothschild, and a Scottish mother, Eliza (Marston) Rothschild. The youngest of three siblings by many years, Dorothy was born on August 22, 1893, to a Jewish father, J. As an adult, Parker rarely spoke of her family and Upper West Side upbringing, although she often hinted that her past had been tragic. ![]() Brilliant, unrelenting, and fiercely witty, Dorothy Rothschild Parker came to signify the urbane and irreverent sensibility of New York City in the 1920s. ![]()
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