Venus in India: or, Love Adventures in Hindustan

The notorious two-volume account of Captain Devereaux’s service to her majesty on the Subcontinent. In the first volume the esteemed Captain is billeted in Hindustan awaiting orders. At his hotel the captain meets Lizzie, wife of a fellow officer. Captain Deveraux and Lizzie develop more than a relationship, and Lizzie then describes how she was seduced at the age of thirteen by another soldier.... The second volume has Devereaux travelling to the hinterlands where he meets the Selwyn family, his commanding officer, his wife and two very young daughters, Amy and Fanny.... First published 1889 by August Brancart.