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Witty, intelligent, frequently sardonic - and always class-conscious - Emily Eden captured her life elegantly with pen and sketchbook. And what a life it was! A daughter of the great Whig political world, Emily was hostess and companion for her much-loved brother George, 2nd Lord Auckland, Governor-General of India. This carefully researched book sweeps the reader from England to India, and back again, as it recounts their intertwined lives against the rich backdrop of English and imperial politics in the first half of the nineteenth century. Professor Elaine Chalus, Professor of British History, University of Liverpool Emily's next novel, The Semi-Attached Couple (1860), revised from an earlier manuscript and marketed under a title that capitalized on her recent success, has also kept its appeal, and is still in print - as indeed is Up the Country. This is good news for readers whose curiosity is piqued by Brigid Allen's thoughtful and scrupulously researched biography. Jacqueline Banerjee In TLS, No. 6329, 2024

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Brigid Allen studied History at Somerville College, Oxford and has a Ph.D from University College London. She has worked as an editorial researcher and archivist in many areas, from the papers of the American statesman Alexander Hamilton to private papers of the 19th- and 20th-century British in India. Her books and articles reflect diverse interests from diaries to food history, including the acclaimed literary biography Peter Levi, Oxford Romantic (2014).

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