SOUTH AFRICAN MEMORIES

331 pages, frontispiece portrait, 19 plates, red cloth gilt, edges uncut. Appears to have new end papers and replaced leather spine covering. Slight bumping of the corners and some marks, a few foxing flecks on first few pages. A good copy. 

Including: First Voyage to South Africa – Cape Town / Kimberley and the Jameson Raid / Johannesburg and Pretoria in 1896 / In a Rebellious Colony – Visit to Vryburg during the Boer Occupation / Results of a Day’s Sport Near Kalomo etc. 

Lady Sarah Wilson, (1865 – 1929), born Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill, became one of the first woman war correspondents in 1899, when she was recruited by Alfred Harmsworth to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the Second Anglo- Boer War.
The Siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking from October 1899 to May 1900. The siege received considerable press attention as Lord Edward Cecil, the son of the British prime minister, was in the surrounded town, as was Lady Wilson, a daughter of the late Randolph Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Winston Churchill. The siege turned the British commander, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell into a national hero. The Relief of Mafeking (the lifting of the siege), while of little military significance was wildly celebrated in Britain, where the besieged town – thanks to the reportage of correspondents like Wilson – had become a symbol of British pluck and heroism.
Wilson’s South African Memories tell of her experiences in Mafeking, her escape from the besieged town, journey across South Africa, her capture and release by the Boers, and her return to Mafeking as part of the relief force.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Wilson_(war_correspondent)