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Joanna Trollope is the author of a number of historical and contemporary novels, including The Choir, A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector's Wife, The Men and the Girls and A Spanish Lover. She was born and lives in Gloucestershire and worked both as a civil servant and a teacher before devoting herself to writing.
Entertaining, moving, consistently gripping... unputdownable -- Val Hennessy * Daily Mail * Lively and well written... she has built up a convincing and moving picture of the role of women in creating the Empire, and in keeping the show on the road -- Mary Warnock * Sunday Telegraph * Trollope uses superb sepia photographs to summon up the great Victorian heroines... who sought in the colonies, and sometimes found, adventure, butterflies, Christian souls or husbands -- Linda Colley * Sunday Times * Illustrates contemporary Victorian attitudes to women vividly... and reminds us of how restricted daily life was for a Victorian lady at home and how squalid and hopeless for the poor... A conscientious and broad-ranging survey -- Alannah Hopkins * Irish Times * Handsomely illustrated... entertaining... Highly recommended * Literary Review *
