A powerful history of the forgotten lives of black Georgian Britain
Gretchen Gerzina Books
This author specializes in biography and literary history, often delving into the lives and works of celebrated writers. Her work explores how personal experiences shape the creative process and how art reflects the societal and cultural currents of its time. Her approach is analytical and insightful, seeking to uncover lesser-known aspects of her subjects' lives and their enduring impact on the literary world. Her writing is meticulously researched and engagingly presented.
This is an examination of the lives of black people in Victorian England. Contributors to the book look at the ways blacks were represented in popular culture of the time and also at their lives as they experienced them - as workers, travellers, lecturers, performers and professionals. schovat popis
In recent years researchers, both affiliated and independent, have done exciting new research on black people in Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and even earlier. This book gathers this new work on people and events into a single, exciting new volume.
