Overview: Draws from a wealth of sources such as letters, memoirs, contemporary and primers.Re-energizes the recuperation of women‘s travel writing.Draws upon feminist and post-colonial criticism to suggest thaThis book is about Victorian women’s representations of colonial life in India. These accounts contributed to imperial rule by exemplifying an idealized middle-class femininity and attesting to the Anglicisation of the subcontinent. Writers described familiarly feminine modes of experience, focusing on the domestic environment, household management, the family, hobbies and pastimes, roma
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