Pat Barr: 2 books
The Memsahibs
The Women of Victorian India
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Thousands of British women lived in India during Victorian times. They first went out as wives, mothers, sisters; others followed as teachers, doctors, missionaries. What they did and how they responded to their strange environment were seldom thought worthy of record, and writers have handed down...
A Curious Life for a Lady
The Story of Isabella Bird
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Isabella Bird was a woman of remarkable gifts. In 1872, at the age of forty, this rather earnest daughter of a country parson abandoned the rectory nest and began her pioneering journeys to some of the most inhospitable corners of the world. Undismayed by discomfort or danger she was to spend almost...