Up The Country: Letters from India
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Up The Country: Letters from India
By (Author) Emily Eden
Introduction by Elizabeth Claridge
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
17th March 1997
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Classic travel writing
826.8
Physical Properties
Paperback
432
Width 128mm, Height 202mm, Spine 30mm
500g
Description
Emily Eden was born in 1797 into the charmed inner circle of the English upper class who conducted the country's political life. In 1836, this prominent member of Whig society joined her brother, George, in India where he was Governor-General. She stayed there for six years, during which time she embarked on a two-year-long tour of the country. With an unfailing eye for the eccentric and picturesque, Emily Eden describes in her letters the extraordinary experiences encountered in life on the road in early 19th-century India.
Reviews
'In the first flight of English women letter-writers' DAVID CECIL
Author Bio
Emily Eden (1879-1869), a committed Whig, political hostess and contemporary of Lord Melbourne, spent six years in India with her brother George on his appointment to Governer General of India.
