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** This letter also contains the wording “...while the miseries and dangers to which an unprotected woman is liable in India are such as to make it highly desirable that widows and female orphans should remain as short a time unmarried as possible”. (page 252)
*[http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/06/judith-weston-and-her-search-for-a-husband.html "Judith Weston and her search for a husband"] in 1727-1728. 19 June 2017 British Library’s Untold lives blog.
*Article [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9429264/The-Fishing-Fleet-Husband-Hunting-in-the-Raj-by-Anne-de-Courcy-review.html "The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj"] by Frances Wilson 30 July 2012 ''The Telegraph''.*:Article [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2169532/Husband-hunters-Raj-How-fishing-fleet-1920s-society-girls-drawn-sexual-intrigues-India-steamier-climate.html "Husband hunters of the Raj: How a 'fishing fleet' of 1920s society girls were drawn into sexual intrigues in India even steamier than the climate"] by Annabel Venning dated 6 July 2012 MailOnline.*:[http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/husband-hunting-in-the-raj/4164578 Husband-hunting in the Raj] Download . Listen to, or download a radio interview with Anne de Courcy, journalist and author by presenter Phillip Adams, broadcast Tuesday 31 July 2012 ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission).*:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3YVPArbsBs Interview: The Fishing Fleet. Anne de Courcy] Anne de Courcy paints a fascinating portrait of 'husband-hunting in the Raj the subject of her new book. (host Paul French) Adelaide Week, March 2013 YouTube.:Anne de Courcy's book is available online, see below.
*[https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2019/07/finding-mermanjan-the-star-of-the-evening-part-1.html "Finding Mermanjan – the star of the evening"] Four blogs (linked from the first) by Felicia Line from the British Library’s Untold lives blog, 2 July 2019-22 July 2019. Mermanjan was the only daughter of an Afghan noble, niece of the Amir of Afghanistan Dost Mohammed, who married Thomas Maughan of the Bombay Army. They first met in 1849. Her story was told in the book ''Mermanjan, Star of the Evening'' by Gertrude Dimmock published 1970.
*British women married to Indian men.
*[https://archive.org/details/outofindiarajchi00foss ''Out of India : a Raj Childhood''] by Michael Foss 2001. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/childrenofraj00bren ''Children of the Raj''] by Vyvyen Brendon 2005. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/fishingfleethusb0000deco ''The Fishing Fleet : Husband-Hunting in the Raj''] by Anne De Courcy 2013 Large Print edition, first published 2012. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
==Life in the Bungalows==
