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Daughters of the empire : a memoir of life and times in the British Raj / Iris Macfarlane ; with an introduction by Susan Bayly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Macfarlane, Iris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Macfarlane, Iris--Homes and haunts--India.
- Macfarlane, Iris.
- Macfarlane, Iris--Family.
- British--India--Biography.
- British.
- Women.
- Families.
- India.
- Women--India--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxix, 165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- This study shows how, by supporting their husbands, British women held together the greatest empire on earth, often 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 of suffering and courage, told in a vivid and moving way.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxvi-xxxix).
- ISBN:
- 0195678125
- 9780195678123
- OCLC:
- 65882808
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