Love and Life Behind the Purdah

Oxford University Press, 2003. Dustjacket spine very faded, with thin fade mark along the top edge of front cover, wear to dustjacket along top edge, especially at top of spine.

Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1952) was a pioneer in the tradition of Indian-Parsee women's literature in English. This collection of Sorabji's short stories reflects her fascination with orthodox Hindu women and her frustrated feminist ambitions to liberate them from their enforced or self-willed domesticity.