From: MB@nospam.net   
      
   There is an article in today's Oban Times   
      
   "When a lady at sea loses her character"   
      
   Which has a bit about the women who went out to try and find husbands in   
   the East India Company.   
      
   "From the 19th century, when the Raj – the rule by Britain in the Indian   
   subcontinent between 1858 and 1947 – was at its height, hundreds of   
   young women, called the ‘Fishing Fleet’, went out every year to find   
   husbands among the East India Company’s administrators, soldiers and   
   businessmen."   
      
      
   It can be read online through PressReader which is available at most   
   libraries or through their online access to library members.   
      
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