Talk:Dido Elizabeth Belle

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This is remarkably similar to our aricle. Which came first?

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Another potential source at the BBC. -- ALoan (Talk) 09:12, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We seem to have some internal errors - Did Dido leave at the age of 20 (when she was married) or when after thirty years? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hugh Petrie (talk • contribs) 11:23, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dido (Queen of Carthage)

It was the custom in the 18th an 19th centuries name African slaves after people in antiquity, thus Dido (Queen of Carthage) might have been the name chosen for Belle.--DThomsen8 (talk) 22:30, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some contradictions and points of confusion:

The first paragraph says that Dido's mother was known only as Belle, later the article says that the baptismal records name the mother as Maria Belle and then in the family tree it says Elizabeth Belle. Which is correct? What can be changed?

Also, the article says that Dido's position was unsual because, as the daughter of a slave, she "would have been considered a slave outside of Britain". Didn't Dido live in Britain? What does it matter what her status would be outside of Britain? Surely this can be clarified. —Preceding unsigned comment added by EttaLove (talk • contribs) 04:03, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article mentions that she died in 1804, this was also the date given for her spouse's death, yet in the section marked later life it says she was survived by her husband who remarried and had 2 other children. which is right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.151.172.125 (talk) 21:24, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first paragraph never says that her mother was known only as "Belle". Apart from the one reference to "Maria Belle", the name "Belle" is used to refer to Dido. The reference to how she would have been treated outside of Britain merely indicates how precarious her position was (slave / aristocrat). After all, she was born out of Britain. The dates 1793-1804 next to her husband's name in the infobox record the period of the marriage, not his lifespan (he's unlikely to have married and fathered children if he died at the age of 11). You are right about the family tree. That seems to be a slip-up, but the tree is technically a separate article. Paul B (talk) 22:13, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"...was illegitimate, in a time and place when great social stigma usually accompanied such status."

Really?