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 | | The volume concludes with correspondence of Mary Slessor, a missionary at Calabar (in modern Nigeria), who was famous already in her lifetime. |
 | | Two further correspondences of military officers wives follow suit, one, Mary Morgan, niece of the famous Warton brothers so important in paving the way of the Romantic movement in Britain, wrote in the early 1800s, the other, Alice Massay in the 1870s, when India had become a crown colony. |
 | | Again, it seems fit that the conclusion should come in the form of a correspondence from a highly independent Indian woman with an English education, Cornelia Sorabji, who spent her turbulent life as a lawyer and social reformer, signalling clearly that the days of the British dominion in the area was drawing to its end. |
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