MANOTTAMA: Narrative of a Sorrowful Wife

About Author

Somdatta Mandal is a former Professor of English at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. A recipient of several national and international fellowships and awards, she has been published widely. Her areas of interest include American Studies, Postcolonial Literature, Diaspora Studies, Culture Studies, and Translation. Apart from editing the first Indian English narrative published in 1835 entitled A Journal of Forty-Eight Hours of the Year 1945 by Kylas Chunder Dutt, and the first Indian English drama published in 1831 entitled The Persecuted by Krishnamohan Banerjee, she has also translated and edited the first Bengali travel narrative by a woman entitled A Bengali Lady in England by Krishnabhabini Das (1885). Mandal has also translated several other 19th and early 20th-century Bengali travel narratives and memoirs written by women and members of the Tagore family.