An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj

ISBN-13: 9780674987654 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 368 str.

Benjamin B. Cohen

Opis

Benjamin Cohen tells the dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals. In the struggle of one couple, he exposes the fault lines that would soon tear a world apart.