The Half-Caste
Jul 2016 · Broadview Press
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Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Half-Caste concerns the coming-of-age of its title character, the mixed-race Zillah Le Poer, daughter of an English merchant and an Indian princess. Sent back to England as a young girl, Zillah has no knowledge that she is an heiress. She lives with her uncle Le Poer, his wife, and two daughters, and is treated as little more than a servant in the household. Zillah’s situation is gradually improved when Cassandra Pryor is employed as a governess to the Le Poer daughters and takes an interest in the mysterious “cousin.” Craik explores issues of gender, race, and empire in the Victorian period in this compact and gripping novella.
This Broadview edition is enriched with relevant contemporary contextual material, including Dinah Craik’s writing on gender and female employment, British views on the biracial Eurasian community in India, and writings on the Victorian governess.
Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Half-Caste concerns the coming-of-age of its title character, the mixed-race Zillah Le Poer, daughter of an English merchant and an Indian princess. Sent back to England as a young girl, Zillah has no knowledge that she is an heiress. She lives with her uncle Le Poer, his...
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Melissa Edmundson is Lecturer of English at Clemson University. She specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British women writers, with particular interests in women’s ghost stories, the Gothic, and Anglo-Indian popular fiction. She is the author of Women’s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Wales Press, 2013).
Melissa Edmundson is Lecturer of English at Clemson University. She specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British women writers, with particular interests in women’s ghost stories, the Gothic, and Anglo-Indian popular fiction. She is the author of Women’s Ghost Literature in Nine...
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