The Great Proconsul: The Memoirs of Mrs. Hester Ward, Formerly in the Family of the Honble, Warren Hastings, Late Governor-General of India (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Great Proconsul: The Memoirs of Mrs. Hester Ward, Formerly in the Family of the Honble, Warren Hastings, Late Governor-General of India But I have no friends, ma'am - none but yourself, that is. Then, pray, let my dear Mrs Ward commit her experiences to writing for her own sake, if she won't for mine. When I carried my Charlotte and my little Robert home to put them to school, I sought out the friend of my own youth, to whom I had once despatched such reams of letters as you'd laugh to see them. Sure the ...
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Excerpt from The Great Proconsul: The Memoirs of Mrs. Hester Ward, Formerly in the Family of the Honble, Warren Hastings, Late Governor-General of India But I have no friends, ma'am - none but yourself, that is. Then, pray, let my dear Mrs Ward commit her experiences to writing for her own sake, if she won't for mine. When I carried my Charlotte and my little Robert home to put them to school, I sought out the friend of my own youth, to whom I had once despatched such reams of letters as you'd laugh to see them. Sure the dear creature brought out all my old scribbles to show me, and we read them together, and lived over again what I dare to say was as terrible a series of trials as ever woman experienced, so that we wept or laughed or shuddered as if over a romance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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