A Tale of Two Sisters; Life in Early British Colonial Madras The Letters of Elizabeth Gwillim and Her Sister Mary Symonds from Madras 1801-1807

ISBN-13: 9781800791671 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 372 str.

Patrick Wheeler

Opis

These letters give a personal and intimate insight into the lives of two sisters living in Madras (now Chennai) in the time of Jane Austen. Both describe day-to-day life, occupations and relationships in the earliest days of British settlement, providing a rare glimpse into the social history of a place in India, far from home.

Spis treści

Contents: Letters of 1801 and Commentary - Letters of 1802 and Commentary - Letters of 1803 and Commentary - Letters of 1804 and Commentary - Letters of 1805 and Commentary - Letters of 1806 and Commentary - Letters of 1807 and 1809 and Commentary - The Background of Politico- Legal Tension - Postscript.

O autorze

Patrick Wheeler is a retired physician with a long-standing interest in history and in India, and is the writer of a book about the lives of British women in colonial India. He also has direct family connections with the judiciary in Madras in the early nineteenth century.