Don’T Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris
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This biography tells the true story of one of historys forgotten women, a Englishwoman named Alice Seeley Harris who has also been called the Mother of Human Rights. She has been hidden by her husbands shadow since she started her African journey near the end of the Victorian era, but now her story is brought to light by author Judy Pollard Smith in Dont Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris.
Armed with her Bible, zeal, and a camera, Harris arrived in the steaming African jungle of Congo and documented the worst atrocities known to humanity. She captured enough evidence on her glass lantern slides to bring down the Belgian King Leopold, who ruled the colony of the Congo Free State. In this biography, Smith uses imagined conversations based on in-depth research to tell Harriss story of her work. She also provides questions that allow her book to be used in classes or discussion groups.
The world gave credit to the men in this story, but Smith provides evidence that it was the young, English missionary and photographer whose bravery truly changed history.
Judy Pollard Smith
In her house are boxes of thirty-five year’s worth of journals that she began to keep when their youngest child was five. “Had my forbearers kept journals that I could look at years later I would have loved them for it. I hope our children will love me for it too when they are trying to find room for them someday.” Her essays, book reviews, short stories, and travel articles have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Hamilton Spectator, Room magazine, and women’s magazines in England. Her name is engraved on The Lady Violet Astor Rosebowl, which lives in the library in Chawton House, Jane Austen’s home. It was awarded to her for a Globe and Mail essay by The Society of Women Writers and Journalists in England. She has written two previous books, one about Lady Alice Seeley Harris (1870-1970), whose photography of abuses in the rubber trade helped to remove King Leopold’s grasp on Congo. Her other book was the journal she started on her seventieth birthday and kept every day for one year. It was her experiment in making every moment count: The More The Merrier ~ Celebrating Seventy from Archway Publishing. She thanks her family for being wonderful, her friends because they are too, as are the good people from all over the world who have woven the richest of tapestries into the lives of her family. Threads of gold indeed. One of her favourite sign-offs is that which Emily Carr wrote at the end of her letters to her great friend Ira Dilworth, “Oodles of love,” which Emily eventually shortened to “Oodles.” To all of you, she sends “oodles.”
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