The Hottentot Venus: The Life And Death Of Saartjie Baartman: Born 1789 Buried 2002 by Rachel Holmes

The Hottentot Venus: The Life And Death Of Saartjie Baartman: Born 1789 Buried 2002

Rachel Holmes

239 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

fiction biography history reflective slow-paced
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In 1810 Saartjie Baartman was London's most famous curiosity. Famed for her exquisite physique - in particular her shapely bottom - she was stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped and ridiculed. But this tragic young South African woman ...

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