United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies

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Family and Intimate relationships Anna Leonowens
He had served as an enlisted soldier in the East India Company 's private army. Before joining the army in 1824, he was employed as a cabinetmaker in Middlesex.
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield.
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Family and Intimate relationships Anna Leonowens
Two months after Anna's birth, her mother married second corporal Patrick Donoughey , who was also with the East India Company 's private army. He was later demoted to private.
Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus.
27
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield.
1-2
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.
Family and Intimate relationships Damaris Masham
DM mentions her brother Charles as the Dearest Person in the World to me. She felt she was making a great sacrifice when she did not oppose his travelling to India as a factor with...
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
Employer John Stuart Mill
In May 1823, his father's influence won JSM a position as a clerk for the East India Company . He worked there until his retirement in 1858, when the Crown took control of the company...
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
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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Ogilvy
Her grandfather Dr William Dick was the chief surgeon to the East India Company in Calcutta, India.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
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Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Scott
Robert , baptised in 1717, became a sea captain employed by the East India Company .
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv.
ix, x
Wealth and Poverty Charlotte Smith
Distrusting his son, Richard meant his will to provide for the lives of his grandchildren, a reasonable expectation in view of the large fortune he had accumulated in the East India Company and elsewhere. But...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
Richard Keigwin, a Cornishman, was a naval officer with the East India Company and had a distinguished record when, together with other soldiers who had not been paid, he led a local rebellion against the...
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...

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