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Margaret Makepeace

How colonial rule could mean spinsterhood for the women of the East India Company

Young women of married sisters and orphan daughters of resident men – legitimate and illegitimate – struggled in different ways, writes Emma Roberts.

Margaret Makepeace
· Apr 01, 2024 · 07:30 pm
Give dogs a cup of tea every day: Travel advice from a ‘celebrated’ 19th-century writer

India became a major focus of Emma Roberts’s writing after her visit to the country in 1828.

Margaret Makepeace
· Oct 15, 2023 · 07:30 pm
Avoid ‘injudicious indulgence’: What a British handbook advised women headed to the tropics

Leafing through the pages of ‘Tropical Trials’.

Margaret Makepeace
· May 05, 2023 · 11:30 am

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