Are parts of the books that you’ve written so far based on any of Cornelia’s real cases? Kendra Winchester: And you mentioned that Cornelia represented a lot of women and children in her practice. And that’s the situation for my lawyer in my book that she works with her father. I did look at the way these women lawyers worked and the challenges they had and the fact that really it was very hard to practice unless you had somebody in your family who was willing to work with you. So that’s a really huge difference between the two of them.
But you know, one of the things that’s very different is that the first woman lawyer, Cornelia, supported British rule, and my Perveen is interested in freedom, you know, freedom from British rule. There are some things that are really different about the two of them. And I want to make it clear that it’s not that Perveen is Cornelia. So I was very inspired to learn about the kind of work an early woman lawyer might do, studying Cornelia’s memoirs and her letters. And the first one who’s really well known is Cornelia Sorabji, who never married, and she had this fascinating career where she represented all kinds of women and children all over India and traveled to find them. Sujata Massey: Well, there were actually two women lawyers in India who practiced between the 1890s and into the 1930s. Could you talk a little bit about who that historical figure was and why you decided to write about her? As part of Reading Women’s month on India partition narratives, Kendra and Autumn discuss Sujata Massey’s newest novel in the Perveen Mistry series, The Satapur Moonstone, which is now out from Soho Crime.Īutumn Privett: You’ve mentioned in other interviews that Perveen is based on a real historical figure.
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