The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax - Paperback
by Danell Jones
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Hurst & Co.ISBN-13:9781805260066ISBN-10:1805260065UPC:9781805260066Book Category:Art, Bibles, HumorBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, TopicBook Topic:Plants & Animals, AnimalsSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCDJ6TTRPA
The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax
In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masquerading as an Abyssinian prince, the young writer and her friends conned their way onto HMS Dreadnought, the Empire's most powerful battleship. The stunt made headlines around the world, embarrassed the Admiralty, and provoked debate in Parliament. But who...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Hurst & Co.ISBN-13:9781805260066ISBN-10:1805260065UPC:9781805260066Book Category:Art, Bibles, HumorBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, TopicBook Topic:Plants & Animals, AnimalsSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCDJ6TTRPA
Danell Jones is a writer and scholar with a PhD in literature from Columbia University. She is the author of The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop; the poetry collection Desert Elegy; and An African in Imperial London (also available from Oxford University Press), which won the High Plains Book Award for Nonfiction.
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