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Linda Colley |
Traveller’s tales
BIOGRAPHER and historian Linda Colley will be discussing her acclaimed new book at the London Review Bookshop in Bloomsbury this evening (Thursday).
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh tells the story of Marsh, a woman born in the 18th century who travelled further than most men of her era and whose life was inextricably linked with the turbulent economic history of the time.
Conceived in Jamaica and possibly mixed race, Marsh (1735-85) was the first woman to publish in English on Morocco and the first to explore eastern and southern India, often journeying in close companionship with an unmarried man.
Her links to the Royal Navy and the East India Company illuminate the shifting patterns of British and western power.
Colley, a fellow of the British academy and currently professor of history at Princeton University, will be in conversation with Emma Rothschild, visiting professor of history at Harvard, from 7pm.
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