British women in India 1600-1900
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hickman, Katie
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- AZ 1A 2019
- Thesaurus
- ondernemers, kolonialisme, reizen, India, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw
- Description
- The first British women to set foot in India did so in the early seventeenth century. They went and practiced several professions including traders. As wives, prostitutes and she-merchants, they were fearless and their voyages to India adventurous. This book uncovers stories of hundreds of women who made their way across the sea and changed history. For example, Charlotte Barry who in 1783 left London a high-class courtesan and arrived in India as Mrs. William Hickey, a married 'lady' and Mrs. Hudson who in 1617 was refused as a trader in indigo by the East Indian Company and instead turned a penny in cloth.