Among her father's staff, bodyguard, and a few friends, along with elephant, camel, and mule-drivers, grooms, tent-pitchers, cooks, and other servants, number[ing] . . . about six hundred souls,
Frere, Mary et al. Old Deccan Days. 3rd edition, Revised, John Murray, 1881.
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the only other woman was...
Author summary
Mary Frere
MF
, a studious late Victorian of wide interests, was a largely private writer, who won fame with her re-telling in English of South Indian folktales, fairy stories, and fables. These have been generally treated...
Textual Features
Mary Frere
The volume includes The Narrator's Narrative, Anna Liberata
's account of her life, summarized by MF
from many conversations but using so far as possible her own words of expressive but broken English.
Frere, Mary et al. Old Deccan Days. 3rd edition, Revised, John Murray, 1881.
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Textual Production
Mary Frere
MF
published with her initials (M. F.) Old Deccan Days; or, Hindoo Fairy Legends, Current in Southern India. Collected From Oral Tradition, transcribed from the lips of her maid Anna Liberata de Souza
.
