Belle e-bog
90,41 DKK
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The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion pictureBellestarring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goodea stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady. The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sentto live with her great-unc...
E-bog
90,41 DKK
Forlag
Harper Perennial
Udgivet
29 april 2014
Længde
304 sider
Genrer
Biography: general
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780062310781
The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion pictureBellestarring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goodea stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady. The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sentto live with her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. Growing up in his lavish estate, Dido was raised as a sister and companion to her white cousin, Elizabeth.When a joint portrait of the girls, commissioned by Mansfield, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a black woman and white woman depicted as equals. Inspired by the painting,Bellevividly brings to life this extraordinary woman caught between two worlds, and illuminates thegreat civil rights question of her age: the fight to end slavery.Belleincludes 20 pages of black-and-white photos.