Bridget Elizabeth Talbot Bridget Elizabeth Talbot Bridget Elizabeth Talbot (1885 – 29 November 1971), was a British politician and campaigner. She was the daughter of the Hon. Alfred Chetwynd-Talbot, youngest son of the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury and Emily Louisa Augusta, eldest daughter of the 5th Baron Walsingham. In 1914 she started the cultivation of co-operative gardens on waste land. The Ministry of Agriculture later adopted the scheme all over the country. She did much work with the Red Cross and refugee organizations in Belgium, Italy, Turkey, and Russia during and after the 1914–18 war. She received the Italian Medal for Valour for
The Raksha Country and the Sea Market unfounded. Ma learns from the villagers that they had long regarded China as a mythical country; he also finds out that social hierarchy in their country – Raksha – is determined by beauty. Ma is accompanied by the villagers to the capital of Raksha, whose walls are described as ink-black and whose gatehouses are 100 "chi" () high. They spot the Prime Minister, who has three nostrils and eyelashes "like bamboo screens hanging in front of his eyes" and is flanked by less ugly officials. Shunned by virtually all the city folk, Ma is introduced to a former Raksha diplomat,