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Constable London no date . Hard cover 136pp some sepia plates. A bit of wear and light marking on boards. Foxing. Else good. Introduced by Colin Welch. Journal of an ordinary woman with a rare ability to write exactly as she spoke. She makes the reader live with her through the siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny and see it as she saw it: an affair of dirt and overcrowding; the agony of waiting for relief and of hopes deferred; anxiety for the safety of a husband; small pleasures like a cup of tea; hideous boils and lice; the death of a friend; petty arguments, all conducted to the accompaniment of shot whistling through the windows and walls.