Natalie Harris Hammond

Natalie Harris Hammond wrote from direct experience of political crisis in late nineteenth-century South Africa. A Woman’s Part in a Revolution recounts the Johannesburg Reform movement and the imprisonment of her husband, mining engineer John Hays Hammond, after the Jameson Raid. The original volume appeared through Longmans, Green, and Co. in 1897 and states in its preface that Hammond's personal experience is the subject, while broader political causes receive lighter treatment. Project Gutenberg's bibliographic record classifies the work under the Jameson Raid and confirms her authorship and dates. Her narrative brings household decisions, family fear, petitions, travel, and support for imprisoned Reform Committee members into a history often told through political leaders. A Woman’s Part in a Revolution by Natalie Harris Hammond offers a first-person historical account whose value lies in its close view of uncertainty and endurance. It connects a prominent mining family's ordeal with the social consequences of the failed uprising in the Transvaal.