Diver (Maud, pseud. Katherine Helen Maud Marshall) Ships of Youth:
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A study of marriage in modern India
Edinburgh & London, Blackwood & Sons, [1931].
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, second issue priced 3s6d.
A novel of the North-West Frontier and of marriage among the British in India, set in 1928-29 and drawing on actual events of those years; the author’s own note states that every Indian episode in the book is founded on fact, while disclaiming any relation between her characters and the men involved. Maud Diver (born Katherine Helen Maud Marshall, 1867-1945) was born at Murree, where her father served as an officer in the British Indian Army, and grew up in India and Ceylon; she was a lifelong friend of Rudyard Kipling’s sister Trix Fleming, married an officer of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and published her first novel, Captain Desmond, V.C., in 1907. She was a bestseller in her day and the leading practitioner of the imperial romance, though unlike Kipling she has been almost entirely forgotten since.
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A little light foxing; cloth with minor speckling; jacket with some rubbing and chipping, some toning.
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