Roberts, Brian. Ladies in the Veld. John Murray, 1965.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Florence Dixie | In South Africa FD
remembered warmly, even sentimentally, her childhood meeting with the Prince Imperial
(son of Louis-Napoleon of France, an early anglophile) whom she had met as a child and who had died fighting... |
Literary responses | Florence Dixie | Her position on Cetshwayo
and the Zulus aroused furious controversy, with letters to the newspapers from [e]veryone who had ever been to Zululand, and a great many who had not. Roberts, Brian. Ladies in the Veld. John Murray, 1965. 152 |
politics | Florence Dixie | Her visit to Zululand was undertaken at the request of King Cetshwayo
, and once there she caused consternation among British officials by attempting to sound out local Zulu opinion about his removal from rule... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
's discussion of schools leads her into an account of a visit made by the Norwegian missionary, Bishop Schreuder
, to a later Zulu chief, Cetshwayo
, taken from a blue-book or government report... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Florence Dixie | Some of her most opinionated and impassioned foreign reporting was written at the end of her African visit: an account of her final meeting with the deposed Zulu King Cetshwayo
, and a call... |