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Sarah Cobham shares the final part of the extraordinary story of Wakefield's Edmonstone sisters, subject of ...

As Charles Waterton’s eyesight started to fail, he relied increasingly on the lynx eyes of sisters ...

Charles Waterton’s wife Anne-Mary spent her life surrounded by silence, her ‘quiet’ story sanitised, whitewashed and ...

Continuing the story of the Edmonstone sisters and how their lives change when Anne-Mary marries Charles ...

Even being “from the Body of Helen Reid”, in the end, gave the Edmonstone sisters little ...

For Charles Waterton, marriage becomes a transactional affair enabling him to replenish his depleted coffers

As a man of influence, Charles Waterton was able to be the architect of his own ...

By covering up his connections to slavery, Charles Waterton also wrote out his wife’s, and her ...

As descendants of Demerara’s indigenous people, the Edmonstone girls continued to be under the influence of ...