Lyn Innes is Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Born and educated in Australia, she moved to North America and developed her interest in cultural nationalism, focusing on Irish, African, African American and Caribbean literatures. She earned a PhD from Cornell University and taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she became associate editor of OKIKE: An African Journal of New Writing, founded by Chinua Achebe. Innes has co-edited two volumes of African short stories with Achebe.

• MapsFamily TreesIntroductionPART IChapter 1: A prince in name 1838-1848Chapter 2: Money, power and politics 1849-1859Chapter 3: Passage from India 1859-1869Chapter 4: A Cinderella story 1852-1870Chapter 5: Battling Parliament and the press 1869-1873Chapter 6: The Nawab's English family 1871-1881Chapter 7: Leaving England 1880-1884PART IIChapter 8: Sarah's fight 1885-1925Chapter 9: Royal bohemians 1907-1914Chapter 10: Weathering the war 1914-1919Chapter 11: Writing for a living 1920-1925Chapter 12: Farming down under 1925-1927Chapter 13: Divided families 1927-1941EpilogueAcknowledgementsImage CreditsSelective SourcesIndex

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Lyn Innes is Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Born and educated in Australia, she moved to North America and developed her interest in cultural nationalism, focusing on Irish, African, African American and Caribbean literatures. She earned a PhD from Cornell University and taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she became associate editor of OKIKE: An African Journal of New Writing, founded by Chinua Achebe. Innes has co-edited two volumes of African short stories with Achebe.

• MapsFamily TreesIntroductionPART IChapter 1: A prince in name 1838-1848Chapter 2: Money, power and politics 1849-1859Chapter 3: Passage from India 1859-1869Chapter 4: A Cinderella story 1852-1870Chapter 5: Battling Parliament and the press 1869-1873Chapter 6: The Nawab's English family 1871-1881Chapter 7: Leaving England 1880-1884PART IIChapter 8: Sarah's fight 1885-1925Chapter 9: Royal bohemians 1907-1914Chapter 10: Weathering the war 1914-1919Chapter 11: Writing for a living 1920-1925Chapter 12: Farming down under 1925-1927Chapter 13: Divided families 1927-1941EpilogueAcknowledgementsImage CreditsSelective SourcesIndex

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Lyn Innes is Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Born and educated in Australia, she moved to North America and developed her interest in cultural nationalism, focusing on Irish, African, African American and Caribbean literatures. She earned a PhD from Cornell University and taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she became associate editor of OKIKE: An African Journal of New Writing, founded by Chinua Achebe. Innes has co-edited two volumes of African short stories with Achebe.

• MapsFamily TreesIntroductionPART IChapter 1: A prince in name 1838-1848Chapter 2: Money, power and politics 1849-1859Chapter 3: Passage from India 1859-1869Chapter 4: A Cinderella story 1852-1870Chapter 5: Battling Parliament and the press 1869-1873Chapter 6: The Nawab's English family 1871-1881Chapter 7: Leaving England 1880-1884PART IIChapter 8: Sarah's fight 1885-1925Chapter 9: Royal bohemians 1907-1914Chapter 10: Weathering the war 1914-1919Chapter 11: Writing for a living 1920-1925Chapter 12: Farming down under 1925-1927Chapter 13: Divided families 1927-1941EpilogueAcknowledgementsImage CreditsSelective SourcesIndex

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