A Home by the Hooghly

“As a yount married woman, Eugenie Fraser sailed up the Hooghly to join her husband Ronald, a clerk in charge of the office in a jute mill near Calcutta. Her arrival in 1937 coincided with the beginning of the last decade of the British Raj. The Frasers were still in India at the time of Independence, but the replacing of the Union Jack by the flag of India did no affect Ron’s career – by then he was manager of one of the mills. European interludes, when the Frasers’ twin sons were taken to Scotland for their education, and Continental holidays with Eugenie’s relatives, broke up the pattern of their life on the banks of the Hooghly.”