Hottentot Venus: A Novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud, Barbara Chase-Riboud

Hottentot Venus: A Novel

Barbara Chase-Riboud, Barbara Chase-Riboud

336 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction historical emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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Born in the colony of Good Hope, South Africa, in 1789, Sarah Baartman was taken to London at the age of twenty by an English surgeon, who promised her fame and fortune. Dubbed the "Hottentot Venus," she was paraded naked in Piccadilly in a freak-...

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