Author: Hobhouse [of Handspen], Mary (Farrer)
Title: Letters from India 1872-1877
Description: [Edinburgh], Printed for private circulation [by T. and A. Constable], 1906. Hardcover. 8vo. pp. vi, 297. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and crest to front board. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard (tissue foxed). Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Gift inscription to front free endpaper "Gaspard L Farmer/ from C. T. / for personal use only". Edgewear, offsetting to front endpapers, contents unmarked, binding sound. A " small memorial of the domestic life in India of a distinguished official, in the years 1872 to 1877, and of his wife's pleasures and trials in that short space of time. Few can have met all the varied scenes of existence with a kinder heart, a livelier mind, or a wiser judgement than the writer of these letters." -Preface. OCLC 28010527. Scarce. "Mary Hobhouse was married to Lord Arthur Hobhouse, who served on the Viceroy's Legal Council in India. Upon their return to England in 1877, they became members of the National Indian Association. Mary Hobhouse often chaired the committee meetings of the Association, particularly from 1886 until 1901. She and her husband were leading figures of the Association until they died within months of each other in 1904 and 1905. The couple had no children." - ww5 open.ac.uk. Mary Hobhouse was an activist, who championed female education in India, and played an instrumental role in assisting Pioneering Indian lawyer and activist Cornelia Sorabji in completing her legal education, including by housing her during her stay in England. .

Keywords: Baron Hobhouse; India; Description; Travel; memoirs; Biography; Female education; Cornelia Sorabji; Lawyers; history; Indian; British India; Colonialism; Lord Lytton


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