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Britannia`s Daughters

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.

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