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Informationen zum Autor Hugh Cunningham is Emeritus Professor of Social History at the University of Kent. His books include Leisure in the Industrial Revolution , The Challenge of Democracy: Britain 1832-1918 , Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500 and The Invention of Childhood . Klappentext In the early morning of 7 September 1838, Grace Darling, the daughter of the keeper of the Longstone Light on the Farne Isles, rowed with her father to rescue survivors from the wrecked steamer Forfarshire . Her heroism caused a sensation. She was asked to appear at a London theatre and an Edinburgh circus. Queen Victoria headed the subscription list for a fund to support her, and Wordsworth was one of many poets who sang her praises. Immediately a national heroine, Britain's Joan of Arc, her fame spread throughout the world. Grace Darling: Victorian Heroine tells the extraordinary story of how Grace became a celebrity, her name and image used to sell books, soap and chocolates; and of how, since her tragic early death in 1842, her deed and her fame have been kept alive into the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Grace's Deed 3. In the Spotlight of the Media 4. The Life and Death of a Heroine 5. A Place in History 6. The Age of Celebrity 7. 'Our National Sea-Heroine' 8. Disgrace and Recovery 9. Remembering Grace Darling Appendix: Grace Darling by William Wordsworth and Algernon Swinburne Notes Bibliography Index
