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Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Catherine Hume | MCH
's mother, Maria Burnley
before her marriage, was the daughter of a wealthy proprietor in the East India Company
. She became her husband's political hostess and secretary. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 100 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Joseph Hume |
Family and Intimate relationships | John Stuart Mill | His father, James Mill
, was a historian and head of the East India Company
's examiner's office; his son's autobiography introduces him as author of The History of British India, 1817. Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf. 103 Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press. 503 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Wright | Following the deaths of FW
's parents, her brother, Richard Wright
, was sent to Glasgow to be brought up by James Mylne
and his wife Agnes
. Richard later served with the East India Company
. Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press. 5, 6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Brooke | Of all Charlotte's sisters and brothers, only one other, her brother Arthur, was like her in outliving their parents. He became a captain in the service of the East India Company
, and died in... |
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 |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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