模仿文本： Belle is based on a handful of known facts about Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate daughter of a royal navy officer and a West African slave. Unusually for the time, the child was recognised by her father's family and brought up as a daughter in the household of his uncle, Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice. There she was educated but not entirely treated as equal. 

 

译文：《佳人蓓尔》的故事改编自黛多•伊丽莎白•蓓尔的真实生活。她是一位皇家海军军官和西非奴隶的私生女。和当时的惯常做法很不同的是，她父亲的家庭承认了这个女儿并且让她叔叔——英国王室法庭首席法官曼斯菲尔德勋爵收养她为女。她在那里受到了教育，但并没有完全被平等对待。