Publication

1983 - Hutchinson, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

56,000 words, Guess

Page Count

224 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing625068
  • Goodreads1438971

Classifications

  • DDC305.4/0941
  • LCCHQ1593 .T76 1983

Description

In Britannia's Daughters, best-selling novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. She draws on a vast range of sources, including diaries and letters home. She provides a panoramic picture of the countless women who departed Britain for India, Australia, the Far East, Canada and Africa — often in search of opportunities unavailable at home. Here are penniless pioneers and governors' wives, missionaries and prostitutes, explorers and army nurses. They people this book as they peopled the Empire — their astonishing courage and endurance, their remarkable personal stories are vividly and enthrallingly recaptured.

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Other Editions

  • Britannia's daughters: women of the British EmpireHutchinson1983-01-01

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