Career
She was best known as a translator into English of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi"s Madogiwa no Totto-chan as Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window, and Oku no Hosomichi by Basho: A Haiku Journey – Basho"s Narrow Road to a Far Province. She was the author of The Japanese Crane: Bird of Happiness and co-author of National Parks of Japan. Dorothy Britton was also a poet and composer, and was a pupil of Darius Milhaud.
She was known for her popular album Japanese Sketches, in which Tetsuko Kuroyanagi"s father is violin soloist.
Her husband, Air Vice Marshal Sir Cecil ("Boy") Bouchier, K.B.E., C.B., Doctorate.F.C. was the first commander of the Indian Air Force and a station commander during the Battle of Britain.