Oct 29, 2021
"My husband is dead," she said, with finality, "and my daughters will be raised proud children of the Tswana here, not as beggars in England."
Naomi Novik, Empire of Ivory
I finally managed to colour Lethabo and Kefentse, my beloveds! I just love the way the Temeraire series contains so many unconventional woman leaders.
(By way of apology, I really wanted to make her dress historically accurate, but it seems I screwed up: googling Tswana traditional dresses turned up a lot of very pretty indigo printed shweshwe fabrics. Which - as I found out AFTER I’d whipped out the watercolours - were only introduced into South Africa in the mid-1800s. Oopsie. There is a brief history of Tswana clothing here.)
