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Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Paula Byrne. From acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne, the sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle May starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode—a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady.

Paula Bellacera and Mark Siprut join hands across California to visually represent their home cities.

The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to live with her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. Growing up in his lavish estate, Dido was raised as a sister and companion to her white cousin, Elizabeth.

When a joint portrait of the girls, commissioned by Mansfield, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a black woman and white woman depicted as equals. Inspired by the painting, Belle vividly brings to life this extraordinary woman caught between two worlds, and illuminates the great civil rights question of her age: the fight to end slavery.

Loading interface About the author. Paula Byrne 22 books followers. Paula Byrne is a British author and biographer. She is married to writer Jonathan Bate , the Shakespeare scholar.

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