Hira-Singh's Farewell to Burmah

Author(s): Laurence Hope

Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)

Narrators: Elliot, Bruce Kachuk, Brian Darby, Newgatenovelist, Greg Giordano, Leonard Wilson, Maria Kasper, Peter Yearsley

Number of Chapters: 8

Length: 25 minutes

Language: English

Adela Florence Nicolson was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope.
She was born in England and joined her father in 1881, who was employed in the British Army at Lahore (The traditional capital of Punjab for a millennium, Lahore was the cultural centre of the northern Indian subcontinent which extends from the eastern banks of the Indus River to New Delhi.)
Her father was editor of the Lahore arm of The Civil and Military Gazette, and it was he who in all probability gave Rudyard Kipling (a contemporary of his daughter) his first employment as a journalist. Her sisters Annie Sophie Cory and Isabel Cory also pursued writing careers: Annie wrote popular, racy novels under the pseudonym "Victoria Cross," while Isabel assisted and then succeeded their father as editor of the Sind Gazette. ( Wikipedia)