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Sarah Heckford: A Lady Trader in the Transvaal

Name: Sarah Heckford: A Lady Trader in the Transvaal
ISBN: 9781602355668

By
- Sarah Heckford
Publisher
- Parlor Press, LLC

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Series: 1 of 6
Language: English
Format
Category: Biographies

A Lady Trader in the Transvaal presents the South African adventures of Sarah Heckford, a once famous but now forgotten Anglo-Irish gentlewoman. After trekking to the Transvaal in 1878, this intrepid woman served as governess, doctor, builder, nurse, and farmer. When her farm failed, she broke through the barriers of gender and class to make her fortune as a smous or peddler —trading with the Africans and Afrikaners of the remote bush-veldt. Caught up in the Anglo-Boer War of 1879–1880, she survived the hundred-day siege of Pretoria only to find the British dishonoured and herself financially ruined.

Release date

Ebook: 3 October 2008