'Up the Country'.

An 'entertaining account of the eighteen months she spent in the upper provinces of India, beginning with a journey from Calcutta to Simla in 1837, as first lady of the Raj' (Robinson).

Known both as a poet and a novelist, Eden (1797-1869) went out to India with her sister Fanny whilst their brother George, 1st Earl of Auckland held the post of Governor-General (1835-1842). She not only provided descriptions of her travels, peppered with details of local colour, but also left a perceptive account of the major political events during the period of her brother's term of office, including the disastrous retreat from Kabul in 1842, the blame for which was partly laid at her brother's door.

Eden includes considerable descriptions of Sikh envoys as well as her journey to the Punjab in which she met Ranjit Singh and his sons Kharak Singh and Sher Singh in Lahore.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (21 x 14.5 cm); armorial bookplates to pastedowns, a little spotted; publisher's original red cloth, blind blocked boards with gilt motif to upper covers, spines lettered in gilt, spines a little bumped, a very good untouched set; vi, 302; [ii], 263, [20, ads dated June 1865] pp.

Robinson, 209-210 pp; Theakstone 86.