Dorothea Bleek - A Life of Scholarship - Biography by Jill Weintroub

This biography is the culmination of years of work on aspects of the Bleek collection. Here Weintroub ably moves into the history of ideas in documenting the intellectual life, travels and research of Dorothea Bleek, the daughter of Wilhelm Bleek and niece of Lucy Lloyd, who take the limelight for their 19th century research and novel methods of studying San prisoners who lived with the family in Cape Town. It is Weintroubs contention that the familial connections of and loyalty to the Bleek-Lloyd family, plus an emotional investment explain why Bleek (she never married) devoted her life to bushman scholarship. She was the Bleek/Lloyd intellectual heir and this welcome biography argues that Dorothy Bleek devoted her life to continuing and completing the "bushman researches of her father and her aunt as an act of familial loyalty .

2015 paperback with 250 pages as new.  Bushmen, rock art.