Virtual Meeting - A Grandmother’s Legacy: The Memsahibs and Their Servants
Jenny Mallin with give an on-line take about her Grandmother's Legacy - this talk is chargeable.
Thursday 1st April 2021 10:00am - 12:00pm
Details:
We discover the very first memsahibs to set foot into India in 1617, and how a fair amount of hoodwinking by these ladies who travelled out to the East Indies at a time when the East India Company expressly forbade women to do this. We learn of the fishing fleet ladies, those English young women of marriagable age who soon found themselves faced with the social stigma of spinsterhood that were now looked upon as objects of pity as fate had dealt them an unlucky hand and their only way to gain a hand in marriage was to go in search of a husband, and quickly… We learn of the challenges that lay ahead for them in running a household and the considerations that they would need to bear in mind when hiring their servants.
The Zoom meeting will open at 10:00am and the talk will start at 10:30am. The Zoom link will be sent out around a week before the meeting to all members who have paid the entrance fee - please check your spam/junk mail.
Any questions please get in touch - chairman@bradfordfhs.org.uk
