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Lady Trader - A Biography Of Mrs Sarah Heckford

Author :  Vivien Allen

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Country
South Africa
Publisher
Protea Book House, South Africa
ISBN 9781869193577
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2010
Bib. Info 306p.;
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Sarah Heckford, born a Victorian lady in 1839, defied convention. Despite disability and the confines of upper-class expectations, she broke all boundaries; first to volunteer at a cholera hospital; then to start a children’s hospital in London’s East End with her husband. Newly widowed, she left first for Italy and India, and then for South Africa. Arriving at Durban in 1878, Sarah set out for the Transvaal. Here she became a governess and then a farmer; later she became a transport-rider, trading goods with hunters and miners in the Lowveld. She made a life for herself in Africa despite considerable drawbacks, all the while trying to find ways of bettering the lives of those around her. Author Vivien Allen has brought this remarkable woman to life in a riveting biography.

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