Letters from Madras: During the Years 1836-1839
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019566809X
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xxviii+208p., Illustration; Maps.
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Letters from Madras appeared anonymously in 1843 and is one of the earliest published accounts of the Englishwoman's experience of India, antedating Fanny Parkes (1850) and Emily Eden (1866). Spirited, highly intelligent, independently-minded, Julia Thomas, as she then was, arrived in Madras with her civil servant husband in 1837. It was a time when attitudes were changing, the early, relaxed fusion of European and Indian cultures giving way to a separation ...
