Oh, and Olivia Fairfield, the protagonist who is the “woman of color” in the story, has a Black handmaid named Dido. Dominique’s recently published version of it has this painting on the cover. On the other hand, I think “The Woman of Colour” does not refer to Dido Belle at all in fact, there’s hardly a connection, except that Lyndon J. All rights to this movie poster for “Belle” (2013) belong to the movie makers and affiliated producers, designers, etc. The movie “Belle” apparently drew inspiration from this portrait, and the story of Belle is a fictionalized, dramatized version of this real-life woman’s story. I think a lot of people find a strange fascination in this public image of a mixed-race woman, painted during a time when slavery was still a thing. I don’t believe the book and the movie are both about the same woman, but both seem to draw some connection with this painting from 1779 of a certain “Dido Elizabeth Belle” with her companion “Lady Elizabeth Murray”: I encountered this book in one of my college English classes, just a few weeks after I watched the 2013 movie “Belle.” Coincidence? Maybe.
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