In the 19th century, Britain sent out missionaries to help Christianise the world. They brought their wives with them, and in 1853, a boarding school for missionary children was built in London. Eliza was a missionary daughter who joined the school in 1855, aged seven. She was one of only two children expelled 'for great misconduct' from the school during the first fifty years of its existence. She was sent back to her parents in Mauritius when she...