At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
Biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary.
Biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780590486699 (0590486691)
Publish date: February 1st 1999
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Juvenile
What is commendable about this work is that Walter Dean Myers has unearthed an amazing story that otherwise would have been lost forever in a decaying package of letters and diary entries in the British Royal archives. Myers hired professional researchers to ensure accuracy in his telling of Sarah F...
I'm having a hard time putting into words why I enjoyed this so much. It's a really slim little book and there is so much about Sarah's life that we can never know. And yet I found myself really absorbed in Meyer's account of what little we do know about Sarah - that she was orphaned by 6, saved fro...
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