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.
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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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Jane Jewsbury | After a short courtship, MJJ
married the Rev. William Kew Fletcher
, a chaplain for the East India Company
, at Penegoes in Montgomeryshire. Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, pp. 323-39. 330 Mercer, Edmund. “Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury”. Manchester Quarterly, Vol. 17 , pp. 301-21. 303 Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol. 67 , No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73. 467 Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 228 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | DB
's mother, Jane Maria (Grant), Lady Strachey
, was born on 13 March 1840 aboard an East India Company
ship off the Cape of Good Hope. Her parents were Henrietta Chichele (of an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | Oliver Strachey
, like a number of Strachey men, worked with the East India Company
. His second wife was Rachel (Ray) Costelloe
, Newnham College
graduate, women's rights activist, and author, best known for... |
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. xvi |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Kelly | Robert Hawke Kelly's father was General Robert Kelly of the East India Company
, a nabob. The general died within a few months of IK
and Robert Kelly's marriage, and with his death Robert... |
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/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jemima Kindersley | Her only son (who bore the same name as his father) became the first person to translate from Tamil into English. He worked for the East India Company
, and inscribed to his mother a... |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Lamb | Charles Lamb
, brother of Mary
, retired from the office of the East India Company
on grounds of ill-health (no concept of retirement for any other reason was recognised). Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 333 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe |
Timeline
7 December 1829: The Governor General of India, Lord William...
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7 December 1829
The Governor General of India, Lord William Bentinck
, officially outlawed the practice of sati or suttee, the self-immolation of a Hindu widow at her husband's funeral, generally by burning.
28 August 1833: An act opening trade to India and tea trade...
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28 August 1833
An act opening trade to India and tea trade to China began a new era in British commerce, ending the East India Company
's monopoly of the China trade.
By mid nineteenth century: East India Company archives record the near...
Building item
By mid nineteenth century
East India Company
archives record the near disappearance of wills made by British men in India which left their property to Indian wives or mixed-race families. Back in the early 1780s a third of British...
10 May 1857-1858: The Indian Mutiny, a war for independence...
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10 May 1857-1858
The Indian Mutiny, a war for independence in northern India, began with the rebellion by sepoy troops in the Bengal army at Meerut, against the East India Company
.
2 August 1858: Government and military control of India...
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2 August 1858
Government and military control of India was transferred by the Government of India Act from the East India Company
to the British Crown
after the successful suppression of the Indian Mutiny by the British army.
1 April 1867: The government of the Straits Settlements...
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1 April 1867
The government of the Straits Settlements (which included Singapore, Penang, and Malacca) was transferred from the government of India to the British Secretary of State for the Colonies.
1 June 1874: The East India Company's 1854 charter ran...
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1 June 1874
The East India Company
's 1854 charter ran out, and the company was dissolved.
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