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Flora Annie Steel (1847-1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this "unconventional memsahib" and her contribution to turn-of-the-century Anglo-Indian literature. The eight essays draw attention to Steel's multifaceted work—ranging from fiction to journalism to letter writing, from housekeeping manuals to philanthropic activities. These essays, by recognized experts on her life and work, will appeal to interdisciplinary scholars and readers in the fields of British India and Women's Studies.
Contributors: Amrita Banerjee, Helen Pike Bauer, Ralph Crane, Gráinne Goodwin, Alan Johnson, Anna Johnston, Danielle Nielsen, LeeAnne M. Richardson, Susmita Roye
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction / Susmita Roye
1 | Women Who Serve in Times of Need Recreating an Uprising in Flora Annie Steel's Voices in the Night
DANIELLE NIELSEN
2 | The Other Voice
Agency of the Fallen Women in Flora Annie Steel's Novels
AMRITA BANERJEE
3 | Narrative Strategy as Hermeneutic
Reading In the Permanent Way as Colonial Theory
LEEANNE M. RICHARDSON
4 | Flora Annie Steel and Indian Girlhood
HELEN PIKE BAUER
5 | The Transgressing Purdahnashin and
Violated Purdah Space
Kipling's "Beyond the Pale" and Steel's "Faizullah"
SUSMITA ROYE
6 | "Going Jungli"
Flora Annie Steel's Wild Civility
ALAN JOHNSON
7 | How to Dine in India
Flora Annie Steel's The Complete Indian Housekeeper
and Cook and the Anglo-Indian Imagination
RALPH CRANE AND ANNA JOHNSTON
8 | "Yours truly, Flora Annie Steel"
Gender, Empire, and Indian Pressure Politics in the
Times's Correspondence Columns, 1897-1910
GRÁINNE GOODWIN
Contributors
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