Wilson, Sarah [Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill].

South African Memories – Social, Warlike and Sporting, From Diaries Written at the Time. With a Photogravure of Lady Wilson.

London, Edward Arnold. 1909. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 331 pages. 20 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt letter and design on front board. Gilt top edge. Deckled edges. Good condition only with some stronger signs of external wear. Board corners bumped. Tear to cloth at front hinge of spine but binding still firm and strong. Interior bright and clean and the bookblock tight and complete with all illustrations. Excellent Provenance: With tiny – bookplate: “The Times” – Book Club – Oxford Street, London.

Including: First Voyage to South Africa – Cape Town / Kimberley and the Jameson Raid / Johannesburg and Pretoria in 1896 / In a Rebellious Colony – Visit to Vryburg during the Boer Occupation / Results of a Day’s Sport Near Kalomo etc.

Lady Sarah Wilson, (1865 – 1929), born Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill, became one of the first woman war correspondents in 1899, when she was recruited by Alfred Harmsworth to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the Second Anglo- Boer War.
The Siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking from October 1899 to May 1900. The siege received considerable press attention as Lord Edward Cecil, the son of the British prime minister, was in the surrounded town, as was Lady Wilson, a daughter of the late Randolph Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Winston Churchill. The siege turned the British commander, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell into a national hero. The Relief of Mafeking (the lifting of the siege), while of little military significance was wildly celebrated in Britain, where the besieged town – thanks to the reportage of correspondents like Wilson – had become a symbol of British pluck and heroism.
Wilson’s South African Memories tell of her experiences in Mafeking, her escape from the besieged town, journey across South Africa, her capture and release by the Boers, and her return to Mafeking as part of the relief force.

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120138AB

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