United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies

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...

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...

Robert , baptised in 1717, became a sea captain employed by the East India Company .

Caroline Jones married Captain Archibald Chisholm , a native of Scotland in the service of the East India Company .

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...

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 .

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

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 .

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...

CC was joined in Australia by her husband when he retired from the East India Company .

Here HM predicted that India would be lost to Britain if the state governed it directly rather than through the East India Company , a change which came about only five months later.

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...

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...

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...

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...