Betty Gilderdale

Betty Gilderdale has commented on the immediacy of these accounts, which, she says, lifts them far above the first-hand narratives of the explorers themselves.

This was the only book by MAB to have bad reviews, including one in the Times. (Geraldine Jewsbury reviewed it for the Athenæum.) Betty Gilderdale nevertheless finds the stories well constructed...

A full biography by Betty Gilderdale , The Seven Lives of Lady Barker, was published at Auckland, New Zealand, in 1996 and reprinted in 2009. But like other voices from imperial Britain, Barker...

The Times, reviewing Sybil's Book in late 1873, found it both delightful and thoroughly original.Betty Gilderdale endorses this, calling it the first book to be published in England for teenage girls...

MAB was briefly prolific as a writer for children and young people. (Her elder sons were fifteen and eleven when this period began.) Her Times obituary said her considerable number of books were chiefly for...

The return journey from Simla to Calcutta, and from thence home to England, made in grief and bewilderment and exhaustion, was no less physically gruelling as well. Betty Gilderdale in her biography provides a map...