Marianne North, A Ruined Mosque at Champaneer
Rival dowagers back the claims of their nieces for eligible young men in an Anglo-Indian station.
For Croker, see Novels 013, 073, 129, 183, 259. and 328.
A “graphic and successful sketch of petty female rivalries.” Spectator, December 15, 1894
“Full of life and motion”; “a sustained comedy of Anglo-Indian manners”; “sparkling and amusing all through, and there is not a dull page in it.” Academy, January 26, 1895
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