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Belle

Autor Paula Byrne
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2014
Looks at the life of Dido Belle, which inspired the film "Belle". She was an 18th century aristocrat who was born to a captured slave mother and Royal Navy captain father, and adopted and raised by one of the most powerful men of the day, Lord Mansfield. *Also appeared in March Buyer's Notes*
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780007542727
ISBN-10: 0007542720
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 128 x 197 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:Film tie-in edition
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

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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.

Recenzii

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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