num_pages: 352
description: In Britannia’s Daughters , best-selling 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 are vividly and enthrallingly recaptured.
language: English
title: Britannia's Daughters
titlecomplete: Britannia's Daughters
genres: Nonfiction, History, Victorian
ratings_count: 55
publisher: Pimlico