Britannia's Daughters: Women of the British Empire (Paperback)

Entertaining, moving, consistently gripping... unputdownable - Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

Lively and well written... she has built up a convincing and moving picture of the role of women in creating the Empire, and in keeping the show on the road - Mary Warnock, Sunday Telegraph

Trollope uses superb sepia photographs to summon up the great Victorian heroines... who sought in the colonies, and sometimes found, adventure, butterflies, Christian souls or husbands - Linda Colley, Sunday Times

Illustrates contemporary Victorian attitudes to women vividly... and reminds us of how restricted daily life was for a Victorian lady at home and how squalid and hopeless for the poor... A conscientious and broad-ranging survey - Alannah Hopkins, Irish Times

Handsomely illustrated... entertaining... Highly recommended - Literary Review