United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Wright
Following the deaths of FW 's parents, her brother, Richard Wright , was sent to Glasgow to be brought up by James Mylne and his wife Agnes . Richard later served with the East India Company .
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Brooke
Of all Charlotte's sisters and brothers, only one other, her brother Arthur, was like her in outliving their parents. He became a captain in the service of the East India Company , and died in...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
DB 's mother, Jane Maria (Grant), Lady Strachey , was born on 13 March 1840 aboard an East India Company ship off the Cape of Good Hope. Her parents were Henrietta Chichele (of an...
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.
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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.
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Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
Oliver Strachey , like a number of Strachey men, worked with the East India Company . His second wife was Rachel (Ray) Costelloe , Newnham College graduate, women's rights activist, and author, best known for...
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 Eliza Ogilvy
Her grandfather Dr William Dick was the chief surgeon to the East India Company in Calcutta, India.
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.
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.
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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/.
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 Sarah Scott
Robert , baptised in 1717, became a sea captain employed by the East India Company .
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv.
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Family and Intimate relationships Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was brought up in frequent contact with the children of her uncle Thomas , a lieutenant in the Bengal army who had contracted marriage in a Muslim ceremony with an Indian woman. Such marriages...
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.
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Family and Intimate relationships Hannah Cowley
HC 's husband left England for India, having been appointed a military captain with the East India Company .
Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol.
1
, Garland, p. v - xlxx.
v
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...

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