Author: Robert Eales
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781775822141
Category : Philanthropists
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"In 1890s London, the upper class Emily Hobhouse hears that women and children caught in the Boer War are having a difficult time. Concerned, she goes to South Africa ... to investigate and assist. ... [W]hat she finds is disturbing. The British Army is clearing the land and herding hundreds of thousands of people into concentration camps where the conditions are putting their lives at risk. She urges the local authorities to provide better care and support - to no avail. Deeply concerned, she returns to Britain to plead that immediate action be taken. ... She is received with studied indifference by the government and is attacked in the press. Eventually her work saves many lives, but not before tens of thousands have died. ... Though she focussed on a humanitarian cause, her heroic mission could unwittingly have brought down the British government, and her story was smothered. In this book her courageous and inspirational work is once again brought to life."--Back cover.

Author: Pamela Heim
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sympathy
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Author: BEETON
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 696

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Author: John E. Kolstoe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781618510129
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Mary Milner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 814

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Author: Mary Milner
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808

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Author: Mary Ann Lind
Publisher: Praeger
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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The Compassionate Memsahibs refutes the traditional view--perpetuated in the works of writers like Rudyard Kipling--of the memsahibs as a homogeneous group of aloof, pampered women who had little interest in India. Here Mary Ann Lind presents information about the lives of fifteen memsahibs--all of which is previously unpublished--who voluntarily participated in reform and welfare activities in India during the first half of this century. Their activities and experiences placed them outside the more expected lifestyle of the memsahib and offer contemporary social historians a new window through which to view the Raj.

Author: Sophia Lane Poole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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