MARTHA, a story about the Black Countess of Stamford

221pp., paperback, First English Language Edition, Hermanus, 2010

Originally published in 2004 in Afrikaans. Translated by Elsa Silke.

Historical novel based on the relationship between Martha Solomons, the daughter of a freed slave, and British aristocrat and former priest Harry Grey, sent to the Cape Colony as a remittance man. The couple married in 1880, and lived in Wynberg.

Winnie Rust (1939-2016) is the author of the novels Trek and Katryn.