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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Letters From India by Emily Eden , Edited by Eleanor Eden
Emily Edens childhood prepared her well for her role as companion to her brother, the Governor-General of India. Outwardly all that a minor aristocrat should be, the observant and sharp-tongued Eden 1797-1869 never censored her letters for the sake of diplomacy. This two-volume collection of letters, edited by her niece Eleanor Eden, was published posthumously in 1872 after the success of her 1866 collection, Up the Country also reissued in this series. Volume 1 begins in England, with an account of preparations including lessons in Hindi for the voyage and subsequent seven-year stay in India, about which Emily was originally apprehensive. In spite of suffering from the heat and from considerable boredom at her formal duties as Lord Aucklands hostess she produces a series of light-hearted and engaging letters to friends and family, from At Sea, Nowhere in Particular to the Governor-Generals palatial residence in Calcutta.show more