United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies

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Wealth and Poverty Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ had by now earned some money from her writing, but because of her deteriorating health she may perhaps have found the security of Fletcher 's certain and handsome income
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge.
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from the East India Company
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...
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.
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.
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
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Griffith
Her son (christened Richard like his father and uncle) did well in the East India Company and later became an Irish landowner and Member of Parliament.
Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xviii.
xxxii
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Griffith
A lifetime of financial struggle for EG and her husband was eased when her son made his fortune (or when as bibliographer James Raven puts it, a nabob son brought home his Indian wealth...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Grant
One of AG 's sons, Duncan, received a commision in the service of the East India Company . This necessitated a trip to London in January 1805 for AG to arrange his affairs.
Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, pp. 237-96.
269
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...
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
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 Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was brought up in frequent contact with the children of her uncle Thomas , a lieutenant in the Bengal army who had contracted marriage in a Muslim ceremony with an Indian woman. Such marriages...
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Chisholm
Caroline Jones married Captain Archibald Chisholm , a native of Scotland in the service of the East India Company .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
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Family and Intimate relationships Marianne Chambers
MC 's father, Charles Chambers , saw long sea service with the East India Company . As Chief Mate of the ship Earl of Chesterfield from November 1786 to June 1788 he kept a journal...

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