Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle. Paula Byrne

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      For my godson Dominic

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication

       List of Illustrations

       1 The Girl in the Picture

       2 The Captain

       3 The Slave

       4 The White Stuff

       5 ‘Silver-Tongued Murray’

       6 The Adopted Daughters

       7 Black London

       8 Mansfield the Moderniser

       9 Enter Granville Sharp

       10 The Somerset Ruling

       11 The Merchant of Liverpool

       12 A Riot in Bloomsbury

       13 A Visitor from Boston

       14 The Zong Massacre

       15 Gregson v Gilbert

       16 Changes at Kenwood

       17 The Anti-Saccharites

       18 Mrs John Davinier

       Appendix: Jane Austen’s Mansfield Connection

       Acknowledgements

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

       Also by Paula Byrne

       About the Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

      1. The double portrait (By kind permission of the Earl of Mansfield, Scone Palace)

      6. Lady Mansfield, Dido’s adoptive mother, by Sir Joshua Reynolds (By kind permission of the Earl of Mansfield, Scone Palace)

      7. Detail from ‘Four Times of the Day: Noon’, by William Hogarth (Private collection)

      8. William Murray, by Jean-Baptiste van Loo (Kenwood House, courtesy of English Heritage)

      9. Granville Sharp, by George Dance (Frontispiece to Prince Hoare’s Memoirs of Granville Sharp, 1820)

      10. Report of the Somerset case (In T.B. Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials, vol. 20, 1816)

      11. Wedgwood anti-slavery pendant (Kenwood House, courtesy of English Heritage)

      12. The Gordon Riots, 1780 (Private collection)

      13. ‘Caen Wood in Middlesex, Seat of Earl of Mansfield’, engraving by James Heath, after a drawing by Richard Corbould (Private collection)

      14. The Zong: slaves being thrown overboard (Courtesy Everett Collection/REX)

      15. Mansfield as Lord Chief Justice, engraving after a portrait by Reynolds (Private collection)

      16. Dido Belle, amanuensis to the Lord Chief Justice (The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, by kind permission of the Treasurer and Masters of the Bench of Lincoln’s Inn)

      17. ‘Anti-Saccharrites’, by James Gillray (Private collection)

      18. The marriage of ‘John Davinie’ and Dido Elizabeth Belle (Westminster City Archive)

      

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