A Bengali lady in England
This is a translation from Bengali to English of the first ever woman's travel narrative written in the late nineteenth century when India was still under British imperial rule with Bengal as its capital. Krishnabhabini Das (1864-1919) was a middle-class Bengali lady who accompanied her husband on his second visit to England in 1882, where they lived for eight years. Krishnabhabini wrote her narrative in Bengali and the account was published in Calcutta in 1885 as England-e Bongomohila [A Benga…
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- Full title :A Bengali lady in England / by Krishnabhabini Das (1885) ; translated, edited and introduced by Somdatta Mandal.
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This is a translation from Bengali to English of the first ever woman's travel narrative written in the late nineteenth century when India was still under British imperial rule with Bengal as its capital. Krishnabhabini Das (1864-1919) was a middle-class Bengali lady who accompanied her husband on his second visit to England in 1882, where they lived for eight years. Krishnabhabini wrote her narrative in Bengali and the account was published in Calcutta in 1885 as England-e Bongomohila [A Bengali Lady in England]. This anonymous publication had the author's name written simply as "A Bengali La.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Place of Publication:Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
Notes
Originally published: Iṅgleṇḍa baṅgamahilā. Kalikātā : Banerjee Press, 1885.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1443882399, 9781443882392
- oclc:ocn922703998
- LC Classification:DA625
- Dewey Decimal:910.4/092
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