She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen - The Lives and Times of British Women in India 1600 - 1900

Katie Hickman

'Sharply observed, snappily written and thoroughly researched, She Merchants provides a fabulous panorama of a largely ignored area of social history. Katie Hickman successfully challenges the stereotype of the snobbish, matron-like memsahib by deploying a riveting gallery of powerful and often eccentri...