Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xviii.
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Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 |
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 |
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... |
Cultural formation | Harriet Tytler | She was brought up in Anglo-Indian or British India in a Christian and probably white family. She had an itinerant childhood, her family following wherever her father was posted in his military service for the... |
Characters | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | A dashing East India Company
officer bilks the heir to a baronetcy of his fortune by kidnapping him and substituting the murderous son of a gamekeeper, who is in turn murdered by the family of... |
Birth | Anna Leonowens | Anna Harriett Emma Edwards (later AL
), educator and writer, was born in the East India Company
barracks at Ahmednagar in India. AL
lied about her age, making herself three years younger. Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus. 26 Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield. 136 Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield. 1 Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus. 26 |
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