Life And Letters Of Toru Dutt, (Hardcover)

A luminous life in letters. Life And Letters Of Toru Dutt returns the voice of a remarkable nineteenth-century writer to full view. Part biography and part personal archive, this indian literary biography gathers correspondence and context that illuminate how a young woman of Bengal lived, learned and wrote amid the currents of Victorian era India. The result is a living portrait: candid nineteenth-century letters and a sustained focus on her poetry and correspondence reveal the mixture of colonial constraint and creative freedom that shaped her literary sensibility. Readers encounter both everyday detail and thoughtful reflection: small domestic scenes, accounts of study and travel, and discussions that reach confidently into the wider world of nineteenth-century letters and taste. This Toru Dutt collection is essential for readers drawn to colonial india literature and to questions at the heart of cross-cultural literary studies. Students of indian literature will find primary material for courses on Bengal Renaissance literature and on women writers, while general readers will be engaged by the immediacy of thought and feeling found across the correspondence and accompanying biography. The letters offer both intimate detail and wider perspective, clarifying networks of influence, education and social expectation that inform the era's artistic production. Placed beside other formative voices, these pages help map the literary terrain that would later encompass figures such as Rabindranath Tagore and his contemporaries, making the work valuable as a literary history reference and a natural fit for women writers anthologies and classroom reading. For casual readers and classic-literature collectors alike, the edition balances readable narrative with archival interest, offering accessible context without academic fog. It remains indispensable to curious readers. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.