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Belle : the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice / Paula Byrne.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062310774 (paperback) :
- Physical Description: xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2014.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Also published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins UK"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-283). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Girl in the Picture -- The Captain -- The Slave -- The White Stuff -- "Silver-Tongued Murray" -- The Adopted Daughters -- Black London -- Mansfield the Moderniser -- Enter Granville Sharp -- The Somerset Ruling -- The Merchant of Liverpool -- A Riot in Bloomsbury -- A Visitor from Boston -- The Zong Massacre -- Gregson v. Gilbert -- Changes at Kenwood -- The Anti-Saccharites -- Mrs. John Davinier -- Appendix: Jane Austen's Mansfield Connection. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 941.0730922 Byr | 31681002485829 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Tells the story of Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, one of the most powerful men in the 18th century, and his highly controversial adoption of a mixed race girl, which resonated with the public as a campaign against slavery. - Baker & Taylor
This remarkable true account, which is soon to be a major motion picture, tells the story of Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, one of the most powerful men in the 18th century, and his highly controversial adoption of a mixed race girl, which resonated with the public as a campaign against slavery. Original. 20,000 first printing. - HARPERCOLL
The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goodeâa stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady. Â
The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to 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, Belle vividly brings to life this extraordinary woman caught between two worlds, and illuminates the great civil rights question of her age: the fight to end slavery.
Belle includes 20 pages of black-and-white photos.
- HARPERCOLL
The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode'a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady. Â
The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to 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, Belle vividly brings to life this extraordinary woman caught between two worlds, and illuminates the great civil rights question of her age: the fight to end slavery.
Belle includes 20 pages of black-and-white photos.
