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The Woman of Colour (1808)
Anonymous ,
Lyndon J. Dominique (ed.),
9781551111766,
Broadview Press,
January 2008, 268pp,
PB
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In The Woman of Colour, Olivia Fairfield, the biracial heroine and orphaned daughter of an English slaveholder and an African princess, must travel to England, and as a condition of her father’s will either marry her
Caucasian first cousin, Augustus Merton, or become dependent on his mercenary elder brother and sister-in-law. As Olivia decides between these two conflicting possibilities, her letters recount her impressions of Britain and
its inhabitants as only a black woman could record them.
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