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.
United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 100 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Joseph Hume |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Jane Jewsbury | After a short courtship, MJJ
married the Rev. William Kew Fletcher
, a chaplain for the East India Company
, at Penegoes in Montgomeryshire. Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, pp. 323-39. 330 Mercer, Edmund. “Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury”. Manchester Quarterly, Vol. 17 , pp. 301-21. 303 Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol. 67 , No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73. 467 Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 228 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Maria Jane Jewsbury | The Athenæum published portions of the travel journal of MJJ
, who had departed for India in September 1832 with her husband
, a chaplain for the East India Company
. Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge. 160-1, 236 |
| 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Kelly | Robert Hawke Kelly's father was General Robert Kelly of the East India Company
, a nabob. The general died within a few months of IK
and Robert Kelly's marriage, and with his death Robert... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jemima Kindersley | Her only son (who bore the same name as his father) became the first person to translate from Tamil into English. He worked for the East India Company
, and inscribed to his mother a... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Lamb | Charles Lamb
, brother of Mary
, retired from the office of the East India Company
on grounds of ill-health (no concept of retirement for any other reason was recognised). Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 333 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Lamb | From the age of fourteen Charles Lamb worked as a clerk, first in a merchant's counting-house, then for the South Sea Company
and finally, for thirty-three years from April 1792 when he was seventeen, for... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
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7 December 1829: The Governor General of India, Lord William...
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7 December 1829
The Governor General of India, Lord William Bentinck
, officially outlawed the practice of sati or suttee, the self-immolation of a Hindu widow at her husband's funeral, generally by burning.
28 August 1833: An act opening trade to India and tea trade...
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28 August 1833
An act opening trade to India and tea trade to China began a new era in British commerce, ending the East India Company
's monopoly of the China trade.
By mid nineteenth century: East India Company archives record the near...
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By mid nineteenth century
East India Company
archives record the near disappearance of wills made by British men in India which left their property to Indian wives or mixed-race families. Back in the early 1780s a third of British...
10 May 1857-1858: The Indian Mutiny, a war for independence...
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10 May 1857-1858
The Indian Mutiny, a war for independence in northern India, began with the rebellion by sepoy troops in the Bengal army at Meerut, against the East India Company
.
2 August 1858: Government and military control of India...
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2 August 1858
Government and military control of India was transferred by the Government of India Act from the East India Company
to the British Crown
after the successful suppression of the Indian Mutiny by the British army.
1 April 1867: The government of the Straits Settlements...
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1 April 1867
The government of the Straits Settlements (which included Singapore, Penang, and Malacca) was transferred from the government of India to the British Secretary of State for the Colonies.
1 June 1874: The East India Company's 1854 charter ran...
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1 June 1874
The East India Company
's 1854 charter ran out, and the company was dissolved.
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