Sarah Heckford: A Lady Trader in the Transvaal

Softcover. English. Parlor Press. 2008. ISBN: 1602350833. 246pp.

Very good condition in softcover.

After treking to the Transvaal in 1878, this intrepid woman served as governess, doctor, builder, nurse, and farmer. When her farm failed, she broke through the barriers of gender and class to make her fortune as a smous or peddler -trading with the Africans and Afrikaners of the remote bush-veldt. Caught up in the Anglo-Boer War of 1879-1880, she survived the hundred-day siege of Pretoria only to find the British dishonoured and herself financially ruined Book No: 2501844