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This original watercolour illustration appears in a typescript copy of Pellobelle Tinkea gentilhomme de fortune, a powerful anti-assimilationist novel, set in West Africa, Europe and America 1915–19, which focuses on, among other things, the status of ‘author’ among African writers of the time, a status which was denied them.  The authors are given as Hippolyte and Prosper […]

‘While the rigid Censorship exercised by the Russian bureaucracy would make the publication of such facts as are herein described impossible in the place where they occurred, the jealous care with which individual freedom of thought, speech and action, the most cherished heritage of the English people, is guarded, encourages the author to hope, that […]