A tea plantation in Assam, north India.
iris macfarlane, born 1922
WRITER & WIFE OF AN ASSAM TEA PLANTER
Iris Macfarlane was a British writer. Her memoir, Daughters of the Empire: A Memoir of Life and Times in the British Raj covers her life as the wife of a wealthy tea planter in Assam in northeast British India. With her son, the noted anthropologist and historian Alan Macfarlane, she wrote The Empire of Tea (2004), a history of tea. In 1976, Macfarlane published The Mouth of the Night, a collection of tales from the Popular Tales of the West Highlands translated from Gaelic. This life story, edited by Alan Macfarlane, is based on the letters she wrote to him from India between 1946 (when he was five) and 1965.
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Source: Provided to Lives Retold by Prof. Alan Macfarlane, the editor of this life story and son of Iris Macfarlane.