Perdita is a feminine given name derived from perditus, meaning lost. It was used by William Shakespeare for an abandoned princess, the heroine of his 1610 play The Winter's Tale, and for a canine heroine of Dodie Smith's 1956 book The Hundred and One Dalmatians and the Walt Disney Pictures 1961 film adaptation of the book, One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Women Perdita Barran, English chemist Perdita Buchan (born 1940), Anglo-American author Perdita Felicien (born 1980), Canadian track athlete Perdita Huston (1936–2001), American women's rights activist Perdita Stevens (born 1966), British mathematician and computer scientist Perdita Weeks (born 1985), British actress Fiction Perdita (The Winter's Tale), the heroine of Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale Perdita Boyte, a character from the 1936 novel And Berry Came Too by Dornford Yates Perdita Halley Reisden, a character in Sarah Smith's historical mystery seriesThe Vanished Child, The Knowledge of Water, Citizen of the Country and Crimes and Survivors Perdita Hyde-Sinclair, a character from the British soap opera Emmerdale Perdita Nitt, aka Agnes Nitt, a character in the Witches subset of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series Perdita Willoughby-Lloyd, a minor character from the TV series The Haunting of Bly Manor Queen Perdita of Vlatava, a character of the animated superhero series Young Justice Perdita, a female Dalmatian dog in The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith, and the media franchise based on the novel; see 101 Dalmatians (disambiguation) The Free Ship Perdita, a sky-sailing ship in the 1999 novel Stardust (1999) by Neil Gaiman Perdita Verney, character in The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
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