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    Title
    Britannia's Daughters
    Subtitle
    Women of the British Empire
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Joanna Trollope
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 272
    Width: 130 mm
    Height: 198 mm
    Thickness: 18 mm
    Weight: 196 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781845950187
    ISBN 10: 1845950186
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: HIS015000
    BIC geographical qualifier: 1QDB
    Dewey: 920.72
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T5.0
    BIC subject category: BGH
    Illustrations note
    16 pp b/w illustrations
    Publisher
    VINTAGE
    Imprint name
    PIMLICO
    Publication date
    05 December 2006
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Biographical note
    Joanna Trollope is the author of a number of historical and contemporary novels, including The Choir, A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector's Wife, The Men and the Girls and A Spanish Lover. She was born and lives in Gloucestershire and worked both as a civil servant and a teacher before devoting herself to writing.
    Promotional headline
    A gripping and fascinating account of the role of women in founding the British Empire.
    Main description
    In Britannia’s Daughters, best-selling novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. She draws on a vast range of sources, including diaries and letters home. She provides a panoramic picture of the countless women who departed Britain for India, Australia, the Far East, Canada and Africa — often in search of opportunities unavailable at home. Here are penniless pioneers and governors’ wives, missionaries and prostitutes, explorers and army nurses. They people this book as they peopled the Empire — their astonishing courage and endurance, their remarkable personal stories are vividly and enthrallingly recaptured.
    Review quote
    "Entertaining, moving, consistently gripping... unputdownable" -- Val Hennessy 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" -- Mary Warnock 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" -- Linda Colley 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" -- Alannah Hopkins Irish Times "Handsomely illustrated... entertaining... Highly recommended" Literary Review