Author:Joanna Trollope
In Britannia's Daughters, bestselling 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 vividly and enthrallingly recaptured.
Entertaining, moving, consistently gripping... unputdownable
—— Val Hennessy , Daily MailLively 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 TelegraphTrollope 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 TimesIllustrates 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 TimesHandsomely illustrated... entertaining... Highly recommended
—— Literary ReviewAn inspiring survey of the women, humble or aristocratic, who helped to make and maintain the British Empire... Their multifarious history makes proud reading
—— Jan Stephens , The TimesElegant and iconic
—— William Dalrymple , New Statesman, Christmas BooksLearned, thoughtful and beautifully written... it conveys brilliantly and vividly the strange quality of these individuals' lives
—— Linda Colley , The NationAuthoritative and scholarly
—— Sunday TelegraphEvenhanded, carefully researched and elegantly written
—— Peter Parker , Times Literary Supplement, Books of the YearA treasure trove of information from the serious to the trivial
—— Geoffrey WheatcroftMammoth…beguiling…intriguing…vivid…engrossing
—— ScotsmanTruly, he has written London’s biography. I began rereading it as soon as I finished, and I urge you to read it as soon as possible, so that you can begin rereading it as well
—— Will Self , New StatesmanA fat and filling feast: pretty much everything of interest about the capital is crammed into the eight-hundred pages. One cannot but marvel at Ackroyd’s erudition, his energy in marshalling minutiae, his ear for quotation, his flair for dazzling juxtapositions, his vibrant imagination and sheer exuberance
—— The TimesAn erudite labour of love, a fan-letter to a fabulous city, and a book one suspects Ackroyd was destined to write. It illuminates the English character, and is darkly humorous in its detail, tumbling through centuries crowded with legendary events and eccentric observations, as exuberant, energetic and alarming as the city itself
—— Independent on SundayA masterpiece
—— Evening StandardSpellbinding
—— Express on SundayA sharp, beautifully written but above all truthful account of London…This is the kind of writing that gives intellectuals a good name
—— Sunday Tribune
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