My Dearest Martha: The Life and Letters of Eliza Hillier

ISBN-13: 9789629375775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 508 str.

Andrew Hillier

Spis treści

Introduction: An Epistolary Relationship

Part I: Intimate Empire
1. Evangelical Families
2. Letter-writing and the British World

Part II: The Letters
3. Marriage, 1846-1847
4. Early Motherhood, 1847-1851
5. To Shanghai and Back, August 1851-July 1852
6. Homeward Bound, 1852 
7. England, 1852-1855
8. Return to Hong Kong, 1855-1856
9. At Home in Siam, 1856
10. Sorrow and Bereavement,  1856

Part III: At Home in the Empire

11. Re-building Her Life
12. Bridging the Distance of Empire