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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Byrne, Paula.     Subjects     Belle, Dido Elizabeth, 1761-1804.     Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793.     Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 -- Family.     Belle (Motion picture : 2013) -- Sources.     Racially mixed people -- England -- Biography.     Women, Black -- England -- Biography.     Slaves -- England -- Biography.     Illegitimate children -- England -- Biography.     Nobility -- England -- Biography.     Antislavery movements -- England -- History -- 18th century.     England -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Byrne, Paula.       by title:      Belle : the slave da...       by call number:      941.073 B438b     Search the Web     Byrne, Paula.     Belle, Dido Elizabeth, 1761-1804.     Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793.     Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 -- Family.     Belle (Motion picture : 2013) -- Sources.     Racially mixed people -- England -- Biography.     Women, Black -- England -- Biography.     Slaves -- England -- Biography.     Illegitimate children -- England -- Biography.     Nobility -- England -- Biography.     Antislavery movements -- England -- History -- 18th century.     England -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.       MARC Display

Belle : the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice / Paula Byrne. by Byrne, Paula. Harper Perennial, 2014. Call #: 941.073 B438b Subjects Belle, Dido Elizabeth, 1761-1804.   Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793.   Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 -- Family.   Belle (Motion picture : 2013) -- Sources.   Racially mixed people -- England -- Biography.   Women, Black -- England -- Biography.   Slaves -- England -- Biography.   Illegitimate children -- England -- Biography.   Nobility -- England -- Biography.   Antislavery movements -- England -- History -- 18th century.   England -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century. ISBN:  9780062310774 (pbk.) 0062310771 (pbk.) Edition:  Movie tie-in ed. ; First U.S. edition. Description:  xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Notes:  "First published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso. "The true story behind the movie"--Cover. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-283). Contents:  The Girl in the Picture -- The Captain -- The Slave -- The White Stuff -- "Silver-Tongued Murray" -- The Adopted Daughters -- Black London -- Mansfield the Moderniser -- Enter Granville Sharp -- The Somerset Ruling -- The Merchant of Liverpool -- A Riot in Bloomsbury -- A Visitor from Boston -- The Zong Massacre -- Gregson v. Gilbert -- Changes at Kenwood -- The Anti-Saccharites -- Mrs. John Davinier. Summary:  "The sensational true tale that inspired the motion picture Belle (2013) starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Miranda Richardson -- a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady. Dido Elizabeth Belle was the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay of the Royal Navy and the enslaved biracial African-American woman Maria Belle; Dido was sent to live in the household of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery -- in his capacity of Lord Chief Justice he was ruling on cases affecting the legitimacy of the whole slave trade. Growing up in his lavish estate, Dido was raised as a sister and companion to her white cousin, Elizabeth. When a joint portrait of the girls, commissioned by Mansfield, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a Black woman and white woman depicted as equals. Inspired by the painting, Belle vividly brings to life this extraordinary woman caught between two worlds, and illuminates the great civil rights question of her age: the fight to end slavery"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 941.073 B438b Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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