Iris Macfarlane
Iris Macfarlane 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, 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.
