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From acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne, the sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle (May 2014) 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.

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.

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Pub Date: 2014-04-01 Pages: 192 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins She was the daughter of an African slave who was captured from the Spanish in a naval encounter in the West Indies Rather than abandoning his illegitimate mixed race daughter. Captain. John Lindsay of the Royal Navy gave the child to be brought up by his uncle:. the Earl of Mansfield. Lord Chief Justice of England and the most admired judge of the eighteenth century Dido Elizabeth Belle. as she became known. was raised as a lady and treated as a daughter by the childless Lord and Lady Mansfield. She lived with them in the splendid surroundings of Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath. She cared for the Earl in his old age and became his secretary. He rewarded her in his will and she was able to marry.Mansfield presided over two of the key cases that led to the abolition of the slave trade: the granting of ...
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Byrne's aim is to show how these objects, many of them reproduced in her book in lush color plates, reveal a much more cosmopolitan awareness of the world than is commonly credited to Austen."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR for THE REAL JANE AUSTEN

Vividly persuasive.... THE REAL JANE AUSTEN is excellent... particularly on the dissonant topics of theater and slavery....Byrnes section on slavery is better still, establishing links between Austen's protagonists and contemporary figures, her pointed references and contemporary events, which highlight her supposedly oblivious fiction's sharp views on the slave trade."--New York Times Book Review for THE REAL JANE AUSTEN

"Byrne takes Austen seriously as a writer...[she] brings to life a woman of "wonderful exuberance and self-confidence," of "firm opinions and strong passions." Little wonder that every other man she meets seems to fall in love with her."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post for THE REAL JANE AUSTEN

"Byrne brings to this brief history an eye for telling details of daily life, slaveholders' unthinkable cruelty, and the fervent work of a few good men and women who changed their world."--Kirkus Reviews

Byrne s aim is to show how these objects, many of them reproduced in her book in lush color plates, reveal a much more cosmopolitan awareness of the world than is commonly credited to Austen. --Maureen Corrigan, NPR for THE REAL JANE AUSTEN"

Vividly persuasive . THE REAL JANE AUSTEN is excellent particularly on the dissonant topics of theater and slavery .Byrnes section on slavery is better still, establishing links between Austen s protagonists and contemporary figures, her pointed references and contemporary events, which highlight her supposedly oblivious fiction s sharp views on the slave trade. --New York Times Book Review for THE REAL JANE AUSTEN"

Byrne takes Austen seriously as a writer...[she] brings to life a woman of wonderful exuberance and self-confidence, of firm opinions and strong passions. Little wonder that every other man she meets seems to fall in love with her. --Michael Dirda, Washington Post for THE REAL JANE AUSTEN"

Byrne brings to this brief history an eye for telling details of daily life, slaveholders unthinkable cruelty, and the fervent work of a few good men and women who changed their world. --Kirkus Reviews"

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  • Publication date2014
  • ISBN 10 0062310771
  • ISBN 13 9780062310774
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