Would it be correct to label Toru Dutt as the earliest Indian woman writer? Comment.
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Toru Dutt can be regarded as the earliest Indian woman writer. She was a natural linguist. She was proficient in Bengali, English, French and Sanskrit. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan is a collection of her adaptations and translations from Sanskrit literature. She wrote poems like Sita, Lotus, Our Casuarina Tree.
She was the first Indian woman to study at Cambridge, to compose poems both in English and French, and to write a novel in French.
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Yes, it would be correct to label Toru Dutt as the earliest Indian woman writer. She was not only adept in English but also versatile in French, Sanskrit and Bengali. Toru Dutt has a large collection of prose and poetry to her credit.
A few of her works are The Young Spanish Maiden, Le Journal de Mademoiselle d’Arvers, Ancient Ballads, Legends of Hindustan and A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields. The Young Spanish Maiden is considered to be the first novel written in English by an Indian female writer.
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