Warren Hastings

MS 's father, John Stockdale , having been acquitted for publishing a libel (attacking the House of Commons over Warren Hastings ), himself printed The Whole Proceedings on the Trial . . . against John Stockdale.

Eliza was a woman of the world. She was born in India and may have been the daughter not of her legal father but of Warren Hastings . She seems to have been an important...

CC met Warren Hastings and his wife Marian at Adlestrop in January 1791, and remained on friendly terms: she sent a message congratulating him at the end of his marathon trial. She and...

Again her work was extremely popular. The French translation was banned by Napoleon because of its portrayal of nationalist resistance to conquest.Mary Russell Mitford , who thought very highly of Porter, found Wallace in...

The first edition of this novel, advertised for sale in May and priced at seven shillings and sixpence, is now extremely rare. PG wrote it at a time when India—and specifically Calcutta—was...

MH seems to have been a moderate conservative in politics. She objected strongly to colonial exploitation, taking Warren Hastings as a champion of colonial subjects rather than an exploiter. By the late 1790s she was...

He held office under the Whigs, played a role in the trial of Warren Hastings , became an intimate friend of the Prince of Wales , and was a vital player (with Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

Subscribers included the Prince of Wales and other royalty, Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach , Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , her daughter the Countess of Carlisle , Charles Burney , Warren Hastings , Miss De Camp (later Maria Theresa Kemble)

EH dated her dedication to Warren Hastings (as her brother 's friend and patron) of Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah.

The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon (Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones (Read and you will know). It portrays the widow Mrs...

On her return from India, JOH began work on an historical novel about eighteenth-century Calcutta (now Kolkata), and Anglo-Indian social life during the time of Warren Hastings and the East India Company . This...

She writes on public themes with equal panache, attacking colonial appropriations and in another poem calling Warren Hastings an oppressed hero. She addresses public men and women, and here too is attentive to women's issues...

Over the signature Old Kent, Mary Wells (later LS ) contributed to The World theatre criticism and reports of, for instance, the trial of Warren Hastings . She and her friend Elizabeth Inchbald supplied...

Among the pleasures of FB 's life-writing are the way it revels in nonce-words and other innovative uses of language, and the play it makes with dramatic techniques like scene-setting and dialogue. Many famous passages...