A Lady’s Life and Travels in Zululand and the Transvaal during Cetewayo’s Reign. Being the African Letters and Journals of the late Mrs. Wilkinson.
Book Description
                        First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, [i, contents], 264; mounted photographic frontis. portrait; previous owners’ inscriptions to frontis. recto and to title-page, light stain to upper outer margin of frontis., hinges a little weak, else very good in original decorative cloth, gilt, very slight wear to extrems.
                    
                                            Dealer Notes
                            Mendelssohn II.610; Theal p. 332. Annie Wilkinson (1844-78) married Edward Wilkinson, who became the inaugural Bishop of Zululand. In 1870, the Wilkinsons' missionary group departed Falmouth in England for Zululand via Natal. “The volume affords considerable information respecting social and political life among the colonists and natives of Natal and Zululand at this period, and includes a few details regarding the author’s travelling experiences in the Transvall . . . she does not speak well of Cetywayo” (Mendelssohn).
                        
                                    
                        Author
                        Wilkinson, Annie Margaret.
                    
                    
                                        
                        Date
                        1882
                    
                    
                                        
                        Binding
                        Original cloth, gilt
                    
                    
                                        
                        Publisher
                        London: J. T. Hayes
                    
                    
                    
                                        
                        Condition
                        See description
                    
                    
                                        
                        Pages
                        viii, [i, contents], 264
                    
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