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The Hottentot Venus
Rachel Holmes
Category: Biographies & Memoirs: General
ISBN: 1-4088-9911-6 EAN: 978-1-4088-9911-3 Format: PB Pages: 239 Publisher: bloomsbury Year: 2020 Quantity in Stock: 64
Cover price: £10.99 Sale Price:£3.99
'A significant and timely book ... Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story' Frances Wilson, Literary ReviewIn 1810 the slave turned showgirl Sarah Baartman, London's most famous curiosity, became its legal cause célèbre. Famed for her exquisite physique - in particular her shapely bottom - she was stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped and ridiculed. This talented, tragic young South African woman became a symbol of exploitation, colonialism - and defiance.In this scintillating and vividly written book Rachel Holmes traces the full arc of Baartman's extraordinary life for the first time.
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