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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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, 1976. 26 Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991. 136 Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991. 1 Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus, 1976. 26 |
Characters | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | A dashing East India Company
officer bilks the heir to a baronetcy of his fortune by kidnapping him and substituting the murderous son of a gamekeeper, who is in turn murdered by the family of... |
Cultural formation | Harriet Tytler | She was brought up in Anglo-Indian or British India in a Christian and probably white family. She had an itinerant childhood, her family following wherever her father was posted in his military service for the... |
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 | Anne Grant | One of AG
's sons, Duncan, received a commision in the service of the East India Company
. This necessitated a trip to London in January 1805 for AG
to arrange his affairs. Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96. 269 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Griffith | Her son (christened Richard like his father and uncle) did well in the East India Company
and later became an Irish landowner and Member of Parliament. Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii. xxxii |
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, 1991. 1-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Cowley | HC
's husband
left England for India, having been appointed a military captain with the East India Company
. Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol. 1 , Garland, 1979, p. v - xlxx. v |
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, 1976. 27 Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991. 1-2 |
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, 1984. 7 |
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, 1984. 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, 1990. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 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, 1984. 103 Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988. 503 |
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