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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ray Strachey | Richard Keigwin, a Cornishman, was a naval officer with the East India Company
and had a distinguished record when, together with other soldiers who had not been paid, he led a local rebellion against the... |
Wealth and Poverty | Charlotte Smith | Distrusting his son, Richard meant his will to provide for the lives of his grandchildren, a reasonable expectation in view of the large fortune he had accumulated in the East India Company
and elsewhere. But... |
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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Griffith | A lifetime of financial struggle for EG
and her husband was eased when her son made his fortune (or when as bibliographer James Raven
puts it, a nabob son brought home his Indian wealth... |
Wealth and Poverty | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
had by now earned some money from her writing, but because of her deteriorating health she may perhaps have found the security of Fletcher
's certain and handsome income Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge. 157 |
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