Daughters of the empire: a memoir of life and times in the British raj
Macfarlane, Iris
Daughters of the empire: a memoir of life and times in the British raj - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2006 - xxxix,105p., hb.
The book tells of four generations of British women in India and Burma. By supporting their husbands they held together the greatest Empire on earth, to their private cost and pain. Based on a very rich collection of letters, diaries, and photographs, it is a story of class, snobbery, racism, but also suffering and courage, told in a brilliant and moving way.
9780195678123
British women
Women Biography
305.4092 / MAC
Daughters of the empire: a memoir of life and times in the British raj - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2006 - xxxix,105p., hb.
The book tells of four generations of British women in India and Burma. By supporting their husbands they held together the greatest Empire on earth, to their private cost and pain. Based on a very rich collection of letters, diaries, and photographs, it is a story of class, snobbery, racism, but also suffering and courage, told in a brilliant and moving way.
9780195678123
British women
Women Biography
305.4092 / MAC