Rebel Englishwoman
The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse
$46.10
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2019
Summary
Winner of the Mbokodo Award for Women in the Arts for Literature, the ATKV Award for non-fiction, and the kykNet/Rapport Award for non-fiction.
“Here was Emily … in these diaries and scrapbooks. An unprecedented, intimate angle on the real Emily”
Elsabe Brits has drawn on a treasure trove of previously private sources, including Emily Hobhouse’s diaries, scrap-books and numerous letters that she discovered in Canada, to write a revealing new biography of this …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472140920 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472140923 |
| Author: | Elsabé Brits |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 359g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 36mm |
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This engaging and thoroughly researched account of her life draws on fresh material, including diaries, letters and photographs … This beautifully written biography restores her to her rightful place as one of the 20th century’s feminist heroines - The Lady
About The Author
Elsabé Brits
Elsabe Brits is an award-winning journalist. Since 1999, she has worked at the daily Afrikaans-language newspaper Die Burger in Cape Town, South Africa, and for its online portal Netwerk24.com, following a six-year stint at a community newspaper in Polokwane, in the north of the country.
Currently she is a freelance science and health journalist. In 2011, her first book, on bipolar disorder, was published by Tafelberg.
While Elsabe specialises in science journalism, it was her passion for forgotten stories, along with her love of facts, that propelled her on the voyage of discovery that resulted in her writing this book. Emily Hobhouse has since become an essential part of her life.
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