United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies

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Family and Intimate relationships Hannah Cowley
HC 's husband left England for India, having been appointed a military captain with the East India Company .
Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol.
1
, Garland, p. v - xlxx.
v
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Lamb
From the age of fourteen Charles Lamb worked as a clerk, first in a merchant's counting-house, then for the South Sea Company and finally, for thirty-three years from April 1792 when he was seventeen, for...
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Steele
The apparently disastrous story of AS 's marriage remains untold. Her husband was a son of Sir Scudamore Steele, an army officer with the East India Company and said to have been a man of...
Family and Intimate relationships Julia Strachey
JS 's father, Oliver Strachey , was the sixth son of Sir Richard and Jane Maria, Lady Strachey . He attended Eton , then Balliol College, Oxford ; the family home was in London...
Literary Setting Frances Notley
The labyrinthine plot focuses on Estrild Carbonellis, and her fiancé Harold Olver. For hundreds of years, the Carbonellises, wealthy owners of Langarth estate in Cornwall, have been doomed by a curse to die in...
Material Conditions of Writing Maria Jane Jewsbury
The Athenæum published portions of the travel journal of MJJ , who had departed for India in September 1832 with her husband , a chaplain for the East India Company .
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge.
160-1, 236
Occupation Florence Nightingale
Her work brought her into contact with top officials and, although she never visited the subcontinent, she corresponded with Sir Bartle Frere , Governor of Bombay; Sir John McNeill , surgeon with the East India Company
politics Lucie Duff Gordon
LDG involved herself with the cause of Azimullah Khan , who visited England seeking to have an East India Company pension restored to Nana Sahib , the adopted son of Indian prince Baji Rao II .
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton.
177-81
Reception Elizabeth Griffith
Reviews were highly complimentary. The Court Miscellany was typical in praising EG for that delicacy and softness which masculine women writers unfortunately scorn. The Gentleman's Magazine noted the adaption from Beaumarchais . The success of...
Residence Caroline Chisholm
CC was joined in Australia by her husband when he retired from the East India Company .
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
67
Textual Features Ann Gomersall
Eleonora Sheldon writes her life story to an absent female friend. She was orphaned at ten after her proud, extravagant mother had bankrupted her father, and was educated by her father's ex-clerk, a good and...
Textual Features Harriet Martineau
Here HM predicted that India would be lost to Britain if the state governed it directly rather than through the East India Company ,
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
459-460, 462
a change which came about only five months later.
Textual Features Elinor James
EJ 's tracts or broadsides (which word simply means a single-sheet publication) are not literature as usually defined. In some ways they are more like ephemera: notices, advertisements, or proclamations. Rather than titles they have...
Textual Production John Oliver Hobbes
On her return from India, JOH began work on an historical novel about eighteenth-century Calcutta (now Kolkata), and Anglo-Indian social life during the time of Warren Hastings and the East India Company . This...
Textual Production Adelaide O'Keeffe
The list of her literary earnings which AOK compiled in a copy of her Patriarchal Times, fourth edition, 1826, mentions some publications not yet identified. Apparently three works of 1803 brought her in seventeen...

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