Ladies in the Sun: The Memsahibs' India, 1790-1860 Edited by J. K. Stanford (RB180)

Published 1962: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 145 very clean and bright pages, previous owners signature on the first free page. Dust jacket is rubbed and faded with time and chipped along the edges consistent with age but remains intact. (RB180)

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An account of the lives of women whose husbands or future husbands were on service with the East India Company before the days of steam, with little prospect of seeing their homes in England again. Edited by John Keith Stanford, a British civil servant who worked in Burma and wrote books on sport, humour, and natural history. [Google Books]