Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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... |
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... |
Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | Here HM
predicted that India would be lost to Britain if the state governed it directly rather than through the East India Company
, Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, pp. 2: 131 - 596. 459-460, 462 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Leonowens | He had served as an enlisted soldier in the East India Company
's private army. Before joining the army in 1824, he was employed as a cabinetmaker in Middlesex. Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield. 1-2 |
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 |
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 | Mary Lamb | From the age of fourteen Charles Lamb worked as a clerk, first in a merchant's counting-house, then for the South Sea Company
and finally, for thirty-three years from April 1792 when he was seventeen, for... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Lamb | Their father lost his primary job just as he was becoming too infirm (and disabled in one hand) to work as a butler in the Inner Temple. Their grandmother Mary Field
died four days after... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Lamb | After a lifetime of financial anxiety, Charles had left to Mary, besides an annuity from the East India Company
, an estate of something between £1,500 and £2,000, so she wanted for nothing. In June... |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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 |
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