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Article: Jewels of the Crown: Vicereines and Other Ladies
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- The Washington Post
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- December 27, 1987
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BELOW THE PEACOCK FAN
First Ladies of the Raj By Marian Fowler
Viking. 337 pp. $19.95 TWO UNDER THE INDIAN SUN By Jon and Rumer
Godden
Macmillan. 199 pp. paperback, $4.95
FIRST ONE should study the four portraits that introduce the
sections of Marian Fowler's handsome book. Watercolor, oil or
photograph, each depicts a notable vicereine of the British Raj.
Naturally they do not convery much of these ladies' lives-this is
left to the well-researched text. But the pictures evoke the
distinct eras, styles and temperaments of their subjects, who
otherwise had so much in common: aristocratic birth, a sense of
noblesse oblige, stoic endurance, devotion to the British Empire,
increasing ...
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