The Hottentot Venus : The Life and Death of Sarah Baartman

by Rachel Holmes

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 1408899116

ISBN-13 9781408899113

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 17th, 2020

Print length 272 Pages

Weight 226 grams

Dimensions 13.00 x 19.60 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: Biography: general Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900

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The acclaimed biography of Sarah Baartman, once a slave and later a showgirl‘A significant and timely book … Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story’ Frances Wilson, Literary Review'Impeccable ... In telling her extraordinary story, Holmes's fascinating book illuminates the forces which dominated her age, and resound in our own' Sunday TelegraphIn 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.

The acclaimed biography of Sarah Baartman, once a slave and later a showgirl

‘A significant and timely book … Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story’ Frances Wilson, Literary Review

''Impeccable ... In telling her extraordinary story, Holmes''s fascinating book illuminates the forces which dominated her age, and resound in our own'' Sunday Telegraph

In 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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