Tant' Alie of Transvaal : Her Diary 1880-1902 - Hobhouse, Emily (Translator)

The author describes the writer of the diary, whom she met in 1902, as having a fragrance of holiness. Hobhouse knew all the people and many of the places in the diary, so could vouch for its accuracy. She had decided to translate and publish the diary because Tant' Alie . . . much wished [that it] should be published for [her and other] children's children, desirous that future generations should know and avoid the cruelty of war. Emily Hobhouse (9 April 1860 8 June 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, feminist, and pacifist. She is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the deprived conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built to incarcerate Boer women and children during the Second Boer War. Uncommon item.

Hardcover. English. George Allen & Unwin. 1923. 318 pp. In the original, worn green cloth, the book has been repaired with the original boards and spine, prize giving inscription inside. Book No: 2505067