Iris Macfarlane, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Iris Macfarlane

Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1922

Date of Death: 12-Feb-2007

Profession: writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Iris Macfarlane

  • Iris Macfarlane (22 July 1922 – 12 February 2007) was a British writer. Her memoir, Daughters of the Empire: A Memoir of Life and Times in the British Raj covers her life as the wife of a wealthy tea planter in Assam in northeast British India.
  • With her son, the noted anthropologist and historian Alan Macfarlane, she wrote The Empire of Tea (2004), a history of tea.In 1976, Macfarlane published The Mouth of the Night, a collection of tales from the Popular Tales of the West Highlands translated from Gaelic.
  • She also wrote on historical topics in History Today during the 1960s and 70s.

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