The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib

The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib

Widely read and praised on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific, with scores of illustrations which fit the text exactly and show the mind of artist and writer in unison.New York Evening Post. The raciness and breeziness which made A Social Departure, by the same author, last season, the best-read and most-talked-of book of travel for many a year, permeate the new book, and appear between the lines of every page.Brooklyn Standard-Union. HELEN FRANCES BROWNE was formerly a Miss Peachey. Not one of the Devonshire Peacheysthey are quite a different family. This Miss Peacheys father was a clergyman, who folded his flock and his family in the town of Canbury in Wilts, very nice people and well thought of, with nice, well-thought-of connections, but nothing particularly aristocratic amongst them, like the Devonshire Peacheys, and no beer. The former Miss Peachey is now a memsahib of Lower Bengal. As you probably know, one is not born a memsahib; the dignity is arrived at later, through circumstances, processes, and sometimes through foresight on the part of ones mamma. It is not so easy to obtain as it used to be. Formerly it was a mere question of facilities for transportation, and the whole matter was arranged, obviously and without criticism, by the operation of the law of supply. The necessary six months tossing fortune in a sailing ship made young ladies who were willing to undertake it scarce and valuable, we hear. We are even given to understand that the unclaimed remnant, the few standing over to be more deliberately acquired, after the ball given on board for the facilitation of these matters the night succeeding the ships arrival in port, were held to have fallen short of what they reasonably might have expected. But that was fifty years ago. To-day Lower Bengal, in the cold weather, is gay with potential memsahibs of all degrees of attraction, in raiment fresh from Oxford Street, in high spirits, in excellent form for tennis, dancing, riding, and full of a charmed appreciation of the picturesqueness of India. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 56513
Author: Duncan, Sara Jeannette
Release Date: Feb 6, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Townsend, F. H. (Frederick Henry), 1868-1920