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Honoria Lawrence

Honoria Lawrence

Honoria Marshall Lawrence, Lady Lawrence (25 December 1808 – 15 January 1854) was an Irish-born writer whose works, according to scholar Mary Ellis Gibson, "provide an intimate look at the domestic life of an Anglo-Indian woman during the first half of the nineteenth century". She was the first European woman known to live in several parts of the Indian subcontinent, including Kashmir and Nepal.