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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.
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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.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
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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.
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, pp. 301-21.
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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.
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, No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73.
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Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press.
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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...

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...

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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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