Grace Darling

In the early morning of 7 September 1838 Grace Darling the daughter of the keeper of the Longstone Light on the Farne Isles rowed with her father to rescue survivors from the wrecked steamer <i>Forfarshire</i>. Her heroism caused a sensation. She was asked to appear at a London theatre and an Edinburgh circus. Queen Victoria headed the subscription list for a fund to support her and Wordsworth was one of many poets who sang her praises. Immediately a national heroine Britain's Joan of Arc her fame spread throughout the world. <i>Grace Darling: Victorian Heroine</i> tells the extraordinary story of how Grace became a celebrity her name and image used to sell books soap and chocolates; and of how since her tragic early death in 1842 her deed and her fame have been kept alive into the twenty-first century. <br/><p>Â </p>