Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761-1804) – who was adopted by a aristocratic English family - is one of two main characters in The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger (2022).

This series of historical novels are written by children’s writer J.T. Williams and set in 18th century London.

They are set around the imagined friendship of Dido Belle and Elizabeth Sancho, daughter of abolitionist, shopkeeper and writer Ignatius Sancho.

Ignatius Sancho was orphaned at age 2, taken to England from New Granada and “given” to 3 sisters with whom he stayed for 18 years.