Catalogue description Murdoch, Mrs Almora

Mrs Murdoch is daughter of the suffragette Joan Cruickshank, née Dugdale. How her mother's sympathies for Gandhi affected her father's Indian civil service career. Her mother's attitudes to Almora's diet. Her nonconformity generally. Her attitude to dress. Her zest for conversation. Her preoccupation with India. Her siblings. Her interest in New Thought. How Mrs Murdoch's parents first met. Joan Cruickshank's parents. Her restless, inquiring mind. Her involvements with missionaries in India. Her attitude to the family servants there. Her Liberal enthusiasms when at Aboyne. Her attitude to housework. Her taste for writing. Her sense of humour. How she coped with old age. Her creativeness. Her work for the Girl Guides in India. How she had her daughter educated. Her health. Her behaviour with young people. Her attitudes to food. Her husband's way of life after retirement. Their contrasting intellectual qualities. Mrs Murdoch's own career, and her mother's expectations of her. Great impact her mother made on her own life. Her mother's unconcern about personal comfort. Her zest for a public meeting, and involvement in local affairs. Her attitude to money.