Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge.
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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 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Tytler | HT
was devoted to her father, John Lucas Earle
. He was an army captain, later lieutenant-colonel in the Third Bengal Native Infantry
, in the service of the East India Company
. 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. “Appendix A: Pioneer Biographies of the British Period to 1947”. Lonely Islands: The Andamanese. Mason, Philip et al. “Editorial materials”. An Englishwoman in India, edited by Anthony Sattin, Oxford University Press, pp. xviii - xxiii; 175. 198 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bannerman | The brother, a surgeon with the East India Company
, died helping at the wreck of the ship Winterton. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Wright | FW
's brother, Richard
, serving with the East India Company
, was killed en route to India in a skirmish with the French. Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press. 7 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Bowles | Her father was Charles Bowles
, a captain in the East India Company
. He retired from his post shortly after Caroline's birth and later served three terms as Lymington's Mayor. He suffered from frequent... |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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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