My Chief and I.

Or, Six Months in Natal after the Langalibalele Outbreak. By Atherton Wylde. Oval mounted Woodburytype portrait frontispiece of Durnford and one other mounted photographic plate, two tinted lithographic plates. A little foxing, particularly to the endpapers and prelims., otherwise a very good in contemporary red half morocco on green pebble-grained boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt library crest to the upper board and tail of the spine, a.e.m. xii, 328pp. Chapman and Hall,

Mendelssohn 1910, I, p.356 "... under the fictitious guise of a young soldier, the authoress gives an account of six month's life and experiences with Colonel A.W. Durnford who lost his life at Isandhlwana. The writer was evidently an enthusiastic admirer of the gallant soldier."

Daughter of Bishop Colenso of Natal, described by SADNB as a "protagonist of the Zulu people", she completed Durnford's work History of the Zulu War and its Origins, also published 1880. Uncommon, RLIN lists just the California State Library, Northwestern University and New York Public Library copies, NSTC has BL and Bodleian only.

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