Background
Reyher, Rebecca Hourwich was born on January 21, 1897 in New York City. Daughter of Isaac A. and Lisa (Joffe) Hourwich.
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The Fon and his hundred wives
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NY 1952 1st Doubleday. Adventures and experiences in one of the last strongholds of polygamy, Cameroon. Hardcover. Octavo, 318pp., photo illustrations, cloth. Fine in Good DJ.
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{Autograph} The Fon and his hundred wives Signed First Edition
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Doubleday; 1st edition (1952 First ed,dj. Inscription in fountain pen to Catherine Ripley, by author..
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(Zulu Woman: The Life Story of Christina Sibiya ) Author: Rebecca Hourwich Reyher Mar-1999
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Zulu Woman
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Book by Reyher, Rebecca Hourwich
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Zulu Woman: The Life Story of Christina Sibiya (Women Writing Africa)
( In 1934, American writer Rebecca Hourwich Reyher record...)
In 1934, American writer Rebecca Hourwich Reyher recorded the remarkable life story of Christina Sibiya, the first of sixty-five wives of the uncrowned king of the Zulus. What Reyher faithfully recorded — and then crafted into a moving narrative — is the riveting story of a South African woman who entered life among the Zulu royal family and then, after enduring psychic and physical abuse, found the courage to leave. In 1915, fifteen-year-old Christina Sibiya leaves teaching at a mission school to become the first wife of Solomon ka Dinuzulu. While at the royal household, Sibiya successfully adjusts to the expectations of her new position: finding her place among the other wives, and negotiating Zulu and Christian tradition. The royal headquarters, however, becomes increasingly plagued by diviseness, dissolution, and ill health. After a series of hardships, climaxing in a beating by Solomon, Sibiya, at the age of twenty-eight, escapes to Durban. Although pursued by Solomon's representative, Sibiya successfully resists Solomon's authority by testifying first in a European magistrate's court and then at the royal headquarters that her marriage was invalid. First published in 1948, Zulu Woman is placed in new context by an introduction and afterword which consider the book's relationship to other African literature and oral history, attend to questions of power and authorship, and draw upon newly available archival materials.
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Zulu Woman: The Life of Christina Sibiya
(In 1934, American writer Rebecca Hourwich Reyher recorded...)
In 1934, American writer Rebecca Hourwich Reyher recorded the remarkable life story of Christina Sibiya, the first of sixty-five wives of the uncrowned king of the Zulus. What Reyher faithfully recorded - and then crafted into a moving narrative - is the riveting story of a South African woman who entered life among the Zulu royal family, and then, after enduring abuse, found the courage to leave. In 1915, fifteen year-old Christina Sibiya leaves teaching at a mission school to become the first wife of Solomon ka Dinizulu. While at the royal household, Sibiya successfully adjusts to the expectations of her new position: finding her place among the other wives, and negotiating Zulu and Christian traditions. After a series of hardships, climaxing in a beating by Solomon, Sibiya at the age of nearly twenty eight, escapes to Durban. Although pursued by Solomon's representative, Sibiya successfully resists Solomon's authority by testifying first in a European magistrate's court, and then at the royal headquarters that her marriage was invalid.
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Rebecca Hourwich Reyher
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Student, Columbia University. Student, New York School Social Work. Bachelor, University Chicago.
Career
Woman's suffrage worker Women's Political Union, National Woman's Party, New York, Boston, Chicago, 1915—1923. Feature writer Hearst's International, 1923—1924. Advertising writer, editor J. Walter Thompson & Company, 1927—1929.
Public relations assistant Joseph McKee, New York, 1930—1931, president board aldermen, later mayor. Consultant, adviser Sears, Roebuck & Company, 1931—1933. Regional director, professional, service, arts projects Federal Works Progress Administration, New York, Nebraska, 1935—1937.
Assistant to director, director motion pictures Information Service W.P.A., 1937—1939. Executive secretary, member board directors Dominican Republican Settlement Association Inc., 1939—1943. Weekly broadcast City Fun with Children, Station WYNC, New York City, 1945—1949.
Radio series Behind the Scenes with United Nations, 1946. Member faculty New School Social Research, New York City, 1963—1970. Consultant International Institute Women's Studies, Washington, since 1971.
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Zulu Woman: The Life Story of Christina Sibiya (Women Writing Africa)
( In 1934, American writer Rebecca Hourwich Reyher record...)
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Zulu Woman: The Life of Christina Sibiya
(In 1934, American writer Rebecca Hourwich Reyher recorded...)
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{Autograph} The Fon and his hundred wives Signed First Edition
(Doubleday; 1st edition (1952 First ed,dj. Inscription in ...)
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Zulu Woman
(Book by Reyher, Rebecca Hourwich)
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The Fon and his hundred wives
(NY 1952 1st Doubleday. Adventures and experiences in one ...)
- The stork run, a collection of baby cartoons
- (Zulu Woman: The Life Story of Christina Sibiya ) Author: Rebecca Hourwich Reyher Mar-1999
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Zulu Woman: The Life Story of Christina Sibiya (Women Writing Africa)
Membership
Member flying caravan delegate throughout 17 countries, S. and Central America People's Mandate Committee Inter-American Peace and Cooperation, 1937.
Connections
Married Ferdinand Reyher, July 13, 1917 (divorced 1934). 1 child Faith Reyher Jackson.
