Do British memsahibs deserve their reputation as ‘spoilers’ of the Raj? Is some recent scholarship justified in seeing them as little more than peripheral? Seeking answers to these questions, Rosemary Raza examines the experience and literary work of British women in Indian up to 1857. The growth in Women’s writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the contribution made by women writers in popularizing material on India and mediating it for a ...
