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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 |
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... |
Textual Production | John Oliver Hobbes | 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... |
Textual Production | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The list of her literary earnings which AOK
compiled in a copy of her Patriarchal Times, fourth edition, 1826, mentions some publications not yet identified. Apparently three works of 1803 brought her in seventeen... |
Textual Features | Ann Gomersall | Eleonora Sheldon writes her life story to an absent female friend. She was orphaned at ten after her proud, extravagant mother had bankrupted her father, and was educated by her father's ex-clerk, a good and... |
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 |
Textual Features | Elinor James | EJ
's tracts or broadsides (which word simply means a single-sheet publication) are not literature as usually defined. In some ways they are more like ephemera: notices, advertisements, or proclamations. Rather than titles they have... |
Residence | Caroline Chisholm | CC
was joined in Australia by her husband
when he retired from the East India Company
. Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press. 67 |
Reception | Elizabeth Griffith | Reviews were highly complimentary. The Court Miscellany was typical in praising EG
for that delicacy and softness which masculine women writers unfortunately scorn. The Gentleman's Magazine noted the adaption from Beaumarchais
. The success of... |
politics | Lucie Duff Gordon | LDG
involved herself with the cause of Azimullah Khan
, who visited England seeking to have an East India Company
pension restored to Nana Sahib
, the adopted son of Indian prince Baji Rao II
. Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton. 177-81 |
Occupation | Florence Nightingale | Her work brought her into contact with top officials and, although she never visited the subcontinent, she corresponded with Sir Bartle Frere
, Governor of Bombay; Sir John McNeill
, surgeon with the East India Company |
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