Sarah Heckford : a lady trader in the Transvaal

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Author:

Heckford, Sarah, 1839-1903.

ISBN:

9781602350823

9781602350830

9781602350847

Personal Author:

Heckford, Sarah, 1839-1903.

Publication Information:

West Lafayette, Ind. : Parlor Press, c2008.

Physical Description:

lxix, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Writing travel

Writing travel.

Contents:

Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Acknowledgments vii -- Introduction ix -- Carole G. Silver -- Chronology of Sarah Heckford (1839-1903) lxvii -- Chapter 1 3 -- Chapter 2 8 -- Chapter 3 12 -- Chapter 4 21 -- Chapter 5 28 -- Chapter 6 37 -- Chapter 7 42 -- Chapter 8 45 -- Chapter 9 49 -- Chapter 10 59 -- Chapter 11 68 -- Chapter 12 75 -- Chapter 13 79 -- Chapter 14 83 -- Chapter 15 88 -- Chapter 16 96 -- Chapter 17 105 -- Chapter 18 109 -- Chapter 19 114 -- Chapter 20 118 -- Chapter 21 128 -- Chapter 22 134 -- Chapter 23 141 -- Chapter 24 152 -- Chapter 25 158 -- Chapter 26 169 -- Chapter 27 175 -- Chapter 28 180 -- Chapter 29 191 -- Chapter 30 200 -- Chapter 31 217 -- Chapter 32 234 -- Notes 241 -- About the Editor 247.

Abstract:

"A lady trader in the Transvaal presents the South African adventures of Sarah Heckford, a once famous but now forgotten Anglo-Irish gentlewoman. After treking to the Transvaal in 1878, this intrepid woman served as governess, doctor, builder, nurse, and farmer. When her farm failed, she broke through the barriers of gender and class to make her fortune as a smous or peddler - trading with the Africans and Afrikaners of the remote bush-veldt. Caught up in the Anglo-Boer War of 1879-1880, she survived the hundred-day siege of Pretoria only to find the British dishonored and herself financially ruined.".

"Silver's introduction to Sarah Beckford: A Lady Trader in the Transvaal examines Heckford's eventful life both before and after the events of her book and contextualizes her both as a "traveler in petticoats" and an atypical trader. It explores Heckford's attitudes to war and empire and to Africans and Afrikaners as it seeks to reveal the private selves of this unique and multi-faceted woman."--BOOK JACKET.

Personal Subject:

Heckford, Sarah, 1839-1903-Travel.

Geographic Term:

Transvaal (South Africa) -- Description and travel.

Added Author:

Silver, Carole G.

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A LADY TRADER IN THE TRANSVAAL presents the South African adventures of Sarah Heckford, a once famous but now forgotten Anglo-Irish gentlewoman. After treking to the Transvaal in 1878, this intrepid woman served as governess, doctor, builder, nurse, and farmer. When her farm failed, she broke through the barriers of gender and class to make her fortune as a smous or peddler --trading with the Africans and Afrikaners of the remote bush-veldt. Caught up in the Anglo-Boer War of 1879-1880, she survived the hundred-day siege of Pretoria only to find the British dishonored and herself financially ruined. Silver's introduction to SARAH HECKFORD: A LADY TRADER IN THE TRANSVAAL examines Heckford's eventful life both before and after the events of her book and contextualizes her both as a "traveler in petticoats" and an atypical trader. It explores Heckford's attitudes to war and empire and to Africans and Afrikaners as it seeks to reveal the private selves of this unique and multifaceted woman. CAROLE G. SILVER is Professor of English at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women. A recipient of a PhD from Columbia University and of Woodrow Wilson and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, she has written widely on Victorian literature, art, and culture, notably on William Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism. Her recent works include STRANGE AND SECRET PEOPLES: FAIRIES AND VICTORIAN CONSCIOUSNESS (Oxford, 1999), an introduction to an international exhibition of the paintings of William Holman Hunt, and a forthcoming collection of Southern African folk tales.