The Original Letters from India of Mrs. Eliza Fay: With Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

Eliza Fay

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ISBN 10 : 0656083999 ISBN 13 : 9780656083992

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Original Letters From India of Mrs. Eliza Fay: With Introduction and Notes

It may indeed be wondered how it is that a book so ufien laid under contribution, so full of adventures, contain ing so many clearly cut descriptions of interesting persons and places, has been allowed to fall out of circulation. Well, in the first place, as it has been observed, Calcutta, being a place of frequent partings, is, in consequence, a place of short memories. When Mrs. Fay, in advanced years, re turned to Calcutta, about a year before her death, and set to work to put her letters into print, I suppose thee would have been but few here who would have remem bered her on the occasion of her first visit, and perhaps the Calcutta of Warren Hastings'' days had not for the men of that time the glamour which it has for us today. The Execution cut the hook short where Mrs. Fay had left the printing of it; and after copies had been issued to the subscribers, its existence was forgotten until the Rev.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0656083999
• ISBN 13: 9780656083992
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 270
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