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.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Ogilvy | Her grandfather Dr William Dick
was the chief surgeon to the East India Company
in Calcutta, India. Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, pp. xi - xxiv; 175. xvi |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Marianne Chambers | MC
's father, Charles Chambers
, saw long sea service with the East India Company
. As Chief Mate of the ship Earl of Chesterfield from November 1786 to June 1788 he kept a journal... |
| 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 | Caroline Chisholm | Caroline Jones
married Captain Archibald Chisholm
, a native of Scotland in the service of the East India Company
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Literary Setting | Frances Notley | The labyrinthine plot focuses on Estrild Carbonellis, and her fiancé Harold Olver. For hundreds of years, the Carbonellises, wealthy owners of Langarth estate in Cornwall, have been doomed by a curse to die in... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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