Raised in a politically-active household, Emily Eden's childhood
prepared her well for her role as companion to her brother, the
Governor-General of India. Outwardly all that a middle-class
spinster should be, Eden never permitted diplomacy to dilute her
letters home. Published in 1866, the letters provoked sympathy
among women who had similarly endured dusty bonnets to accompany
fathers and husbands to distant outposts of the British Empire. As
one reviewer noted, this book is 'addressed primarily to a public
consisting of wives, sisters, or daughters of possible
Governors-General, and is sure therefore of general popularity'.
There is still plenty to amuse modern audiences. Volume 2 conveys
the growing anxiety surrounding the Anglo-Afghan war, stirring and
sympathetic accounts of poverty, and the author's eagerness to
return to her much-loved Kensington. Eden's descriptive passages
and personal reflections are all narrated with her signature
sensitivity and wit.
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