Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice Paperback - 2014
by Paula Byrne
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The sensational tale 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 raised by her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. When the portrait he commissioned of his two wards, Dido and her white cousin, Elizabeth, 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.
The feature film Belle is produced by Damian Jones (The Iron Lady, The History Boys, Welcome to Sarajevo), written by Misan Sagay, and directed by Amma Asante, and stars the extraordinary Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Dido Belle, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Reid, Miranda Richardson, Penelope Wilton, Tom Felton, Matthew Goode, and Emily Watson.
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- Title Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
- Author Paula Byrne
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, NY
- Date 2014-04-29
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780062310774 / 0062310771
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014007447
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2014, Page 0
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