The Compassionate Englishwoman: Emily Hobhouse in the Boer War

Robert Eales’s book, The Compassionate Englishwoman: Emily Hobhouse in the Boer War (Middle Harbour Press), has recently been published, following his paper on Hobhouse at the 2014 AHA conference. Rob’s book traces Emily Hobhouse’s remarkably courageous work in the midst of the war, and the appalling treatment she received back home in Britain, as she campaigned for the victims in southern Africa. Multiple themes in the book – war, the plight of refugees, political expediency, failure of democracy, gender bias – all have their counterparts today.