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Comment on The Fishing Fleet: Husband-hunting in the Raj by The fishing fleet | Grand Hotels of Egypt

The fishing fleet | Grand Hotels of Egypt — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:09:42 +0000

[...] Before writing Grand Hotels of Egypt, I’d never come across the term ‘fishing fleet’ to mean anything other than the obvious. But as I discovered, it was also a term widely used in the 19th century to describe the boatloads of single women who arrived in Egypt each Season on the hunt for a husband. This is a forgotten bit of colonial history that’s now been put in the spotlight thanks to a book published last year, called The Fishing Fleet, and written by Anne De Courcy. [...]

Comment on The Fishing Fleet: Husband-hunting in the Raj by I am not alone « Masala Bou

I am not alone « Masala Bou — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:26:49 +0000

[...] Bookwise, I loved reading Calcutta Exile which looks into the life of an Anglo-Indian family, an English family and a Bengali family. Other books look interesting : Ann Delorme “The Growing Years” which deals with incidents in the life of an Anglo Indian family, the Wades. They reside in the Jubbulpore cantonment of the sixties. Major Ted Wade is the Indian army’s ballistics expert married to Maya, the daughter of an Irish coffee planter and his overseer’s daughter. Sparkly Date Palm has recommended another book The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj [...]

Comment on Contact by 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915 | Anne de Courcy

1912, 1913, 1914, 1915 | Anne de Courcy — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:32:39 +0000

[...] Contact ← The Fishing Fleet was featured on RadioNational Last Night Live programme [...]