Grace Darling: Victorian Heroine

by Hugh Cunningham

In the earlyr morning of 7 September 1838, Grace Darling, daughter of the keeper of the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands, 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, Wordsworth was one of the many poets who sang her praises. Immediately a national heroine, her fame spread throughout the world. The author tells the extraoridnary story of how Grace became a celebrity, her name and image used to sell books, soap and chocolates: and of how, since her tragically early death in 1842, her deed and her fame have been kept alive into the twenty-first century. - See more at: http://www.betterworldbooks.com/book-...

Hardcover

First published August 23, 2007