"Out of Africa": Lady Margaret Herschel's Letters from the Cape, 1834-38
(2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Easton, K. (2009, September). "Out of Africa": Lady Margaret Herschel's Letters from the Cape, 1834-38. Paper presented at Locating African Culture, University of Stirling
This chapter considers how we might locate ‘Africa’ or ‘African Culture’ in the letters Lady Margaret Herschel wrote from the Cape of Good Hope between 1834 and 1838. In her four-year residency with her famous astronomer husband, Sir John Herschel,... Read More about "Out of Africa": Lady Margaret Herschel's Letters from the Cape, 1834-38.