Lady Raffles : by effort & virtue / John Bastin

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This book will redress the balance from previous works of wild and inaccurate speculation about Lady Raffles by showing her for what she was, a gentle, feminine woman whose strong and inflexible character enabled her to face with fortitude many tragedies in her life. It will also reveal details of her life after Raffles's death, when as a forty-year old widow she had to grapple with mounting financial problems, and the onerous task of writing and having printed at her own expense the monumental Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (London, 1830), which established his historical reputation.