Items related to Lady trader: A biography of Mrs Sarah Heckford
The biography of Mrs. Sarah Heckford who, after pioneering child welfare in the East End of London, moved to South Africa in 1878 and set up as a trader travelling by ox-cart across the Transvaal.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherCollins
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0002160730
- ISBN 13 9780002160735
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages243
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Seller Image
Lady Trader: A Biography of Mrs. Sarah Heckford
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 243 pages. Pages toned, a little staining at the top edge of a few pages; a solid reading copy. The jacket is stained, worn and torn; discolored. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0002160730. ISBN/EAN: 9780002160735. Inventory No: 205242. Seller Inventory # 205242
Buy Used
US$ 7.50
Convert currency
Stock Image
Lady Trader: Biography of Mrs.Sarah Heckford
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lady Trader: Biography of Mrs.Sarah Heckford This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 7719-9780002160735
Buy Used
US$ 7.47
Convert currency
Stock Image
Lady Trader: Biography of Mrs.Sarah Heckford
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 6545-9780002160735
Buy Used
US$ 7.15
Convert currency
Seller Image
Lady Trader: Biography of Mrs.Sarah Heckford
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket complete, slight wear to edges. Brown cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 243 pages clean and tight. `No romancer that I know of has had the boldness to prefigure the life of this young husband and young wife in the Children's Hospital in the East End of London.' So Charles Dickens wrote of Sarah Heckford and her husband Nathaniel, and yet the pioneering work which Sarah did in the field of child welfare, defying the taboos of sex and class to achieve her ends, was only the first chapter in a life of astonishing adventure. After her husband's death she travelled and nursed in India, then in 1878 moved on to South Africa. By this time she had given away almost all her money and, unable to earn her living by conventionally genteel methods, set up as a trader. `A widow of forty, small and slight, lame into the bargain, subject to severe attacks of malaria and probably tubercular as well' might hardly seem ideally suited to a rugged, often dangerous life of travel by ox-cart across the still turbulent countryside of the Transvaal. Sarah Heckford was indomitable. When war broke out in i 88o she was in Pretoria and endured the siege of that city. In the re-established Boer republic of the Transvaal she resumed her trading, then set up as a share-broker's agent, selling mining shares. This venture foundered, so she bought two farms in the North Transvaal and became friend and adviser to Modjadje, the `Rain Queen' of the Loboda tribe and original of Rider Haggard's She. In igoi war was resumed and, now aged 65, she rode sixty miles non-stop through hostile territory to warn Roberts of the presence of Boer troops near her home. Accused by some of being pro-Boer, she was in fact fiercely independent and in a campaign in The Times and elsewhere, defended the concentration camps against the attacks of well-meaning but ill-informed critics. It was in the same paper two years later that an obituarist described her as `one of the most extraordinary women to whom the British nation has given birth'. In this vivid and well researched biography Vivien Allen does justice to her splendid theme. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 141143
Buy Used
US$ 5.15
Convert currency
Seller Image
Lady Trader: Biography of Mrs.Sarah Heckford
Published by
HarperCollins Distribution Servi
(1979)
ISBN 10: 0002160730
ISBN 13: 9780002160735
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Collins 1979 first edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING. Seller Inventory # mon0000901012
Buy Used
US$ 8.37
Convert currency
Stock Image
Lady Trader: A Biography of Mrs Sarah Heckford
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardback. Very good in soiled and chipped dustwrapper. 243pp. Seller Inventory # C4496
Buy Used
US$ 3.86
Convert currency
Seller Image
Lady Trader : a Biography of Mrs Sarah Heckford
Published by
London [Etc. ] : Collins
(1979)
ISBN 10: 0002160730
ISBN 13: 9780002160735
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description First Edition. Minor library marks remain. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-rubbed dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 243 pages; Description: ix, 243 p. , [12] p. Of plates : ill. , ports. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Heckford, Sarah, 1839-1903. Businesswomen --South Africa --Biography. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 231-233. Impressively illustrated with a series of photo-plates. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 89204
Buy Used
US$ 40.00
Convert currency
Seller Image
Lady Trader : a Biography of Mrs Sarah Heckford
Published by
London [Etc. ] : Collins
(1979)
ISBN 10: 0002160730
ISBN 13: 9780002160735
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description First Edition. Minor library marks remain. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-rubbed dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 243 pages; Description: ix, 243 p. , [12] p. Of plates : ill. , ports. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Heckford, Sarah, 1839-1903. Businesswomen --South Africa --Biography. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 231-233. Impressively illustrated with a series of photo-plates. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 89204
Buy Used
US$ 27.55
Convert currency
Lady Trader: Biography of Mrs. Sarah Heckford
Published by
Collins, London
(1979)
ISBN 10: 0002160730
ISBN 13: 9780002160735
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good PLUS. First Edition. HARDBACK 1979. 1st edition. 22x14cm. x+243 pages with index. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket is not torn. JACKET SPINE IS DISCOLOURED. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref rONHND. Seller Inventory # 041524
Buy Used
US$ 25.63
Convert currency