Emily Hobhouse

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(9 April 1860 – 8 June 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the deprived conditions inside the British administered concentration camps in South Africa built to incarcerate Boer women and children during the Second Boer War.

Biography

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Hobhouse

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

The SA play Dear Mrs Steyn was inspired by and based upon her letters to Mrs Steyn during and after the Second Boer War.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Hobhouse

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