She-Merchants Buccaneers And Gentlewomen: British Women In India Katie Hickman Virago Press Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία History General Issues

\ Sharply Observed Snappily Written And Thoroughly Researched She Merchants Provides A Fabulous Panorama Of Largely Ignored Area Social History Katie Hickman Successfully Challenges The Stereotype Snobbish Matron-Like Memsahib By Deploying Riveting Gallery Powerful Often Eccentric Women Ranging From Stowaways Runaways Through Courtesans Society Beauties To Generals\ Feisty Wives Viceroys\ Waspish Sisters It Is Full Surprises New Material Completely Engaging Beginning End\ William Dalrymple First British Set Foot In India Did So Very Early Seventeenth Century Two Half Centuries Before Raj Made Their Way For Exactly Same Reasons Men - Carve Out Better Life Themselves Days Was Place Where Slates Blotted Pedigrees\ Were Wiped Clean Bankrupts Given Chance Make Good Taste Adventure Satisfied They Went Worked As Milliners Bakers Dress-Makers Actresses Portrait Painters Maids Shop-Keepers Governesses Teachers Boarding House Proprietors Midwives Nurses Missionaries Doctors Geologists Plant-Collectors Writers Travellers Most Surprising All Traders She-Merchants These Tough Adventuring Every Bit Intrepid Buccaneering Sea Captains Whose Wake Followed Voyages Extraordinarily Daring Leaps Into Unknown Has Cast Long Shadow Over Memsahibs Once Word Respect Now More Likely Be Byword Snobbery Even Racism True: Prejudice Kind Racial Imperial Religious Cloud Many Aspects Involvement But Not Invariably Case This Landmark Book Celebrated Chronicler Uncovers Stories Until Hidden History: Here Charlotte Barry Who 1783 Left London High-Class Courtesan Arrived Mrs Hickey Married Lady\ Poll Puff Sold Her Apple Puffs Upwards Thirty Years Growing Grey Service\ Hudson 1617 Refused Trader Indigo East Indian Company Instead Turned Fine Penny Cloth Julia Inglis Survivor Siege Lucknow Amelia Horne Witnessed Death Entire Family During Cawnpore Massacres 1857 Flora Annie Steel Novelist Pioneer Struggle Bring Education Purdah Some Painful Exile Exhilarating Diaries Letters Memoirs (Many Still Manuscript Form) Exciting Reveals Extraordinary Times Hundreds Across Changed Σελίδες: 400 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0225 Διαστάσεις: 12 6X12 6Cm