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Ranavalona I

1788–1861

Ranavalona I was queen of Madagascar from 1828 to 1861. She defended Merina sovereignty against European influence, restricted missionary activity and relied on forced labour and severe punishments, leaving a contested legacy of anti-colonial resistance, centralisation and repression.

In George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman’s Lady, the pursuit continues to Madagascar, where Queen Ranavalona I keeps the couple under surveillance and subjects Flashman to court danger, forced service and sexual exploitation.

Series

Series featuring Ranavalona I (1 series)

The Flashman Papers in Order

by George MacDonald Fraser 12 books 4.2

The Flashman Papers present the supposed memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby School in Tom Brown’s School Days who becomes a decorated Victorian soldier despite being a coward, liar, opportunist and sexual predator. George MacDonald Fraser places this fictional witness inside documented nineteenth-century…

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