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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. 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 |
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, pp. 237-96. 269 |
Family and Intimate relationships | William Makepeace Thackeray | His father, Richmond Thackeray
, was a secretary to the board of revenue in the East India Company
at Calcutta. He had another child outside his marriage, a daughter by an Indian woman. He died... |
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, 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. 1-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Maria Tucker | CMT
's father, Henry St George Tucker
, lived in India from the age of fourteen to that of thirty-nine. A prominent citizen of Bengal, with expertise in Indian affairs and finance, he eventually became... |
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 | 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. 198 |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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