A gripping and fascinating account of the role of women in founding the British Empire.
Joanna Trollope is the author of many highly acclaimed bestselling
novels. She has also written a study of women in the British
Empire, Britannia's Daughters, as well as a number of historical
novels.
Born in Gloucesterhire, she now lives in London. She was appointed
OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List and CBE in 2019.
Entertaining, moving, consistently gripping... unputdownable
*Daily Mail*
Lively and well written... she has built up a convincing and moving
picture of the role of women in creating the Empire, and in keeping
the show on the road
*Sunday Telegraph*
Trollope uses superb sepia photographs to summon up the great
Victorian heroines... who sought in the colonies, and sometimes
found, adventure, butterflies, Christian souls or husbands
*Sunday Times*
Illustrates contemporary Victorian attitudes to women vividly...
and reminds us of how restricted daily life was for a Victorian
lady at home and how squalid and hopeless for the poor... A
conscientious and broad-ranging survey
*Irish Times*
Handsomely illustrated... entertaining... Highly recommended
*Literary Review*
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