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, 1990.
Indian Civil Service
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Characters | Ethel Savi | As the story opens, ES
's male protagonist, Gareth Wynstay, has returned to England after five years, on leave from his position as a Bengal magistrate in the Indian Civil Service
. ES
notes the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Fraser-Tytler | Charles Edward Fraser-Tytler
, Christina's father, was a Scottish landowner who at the time of her birth was working for the Indian Civil Service
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Frere | MF
's father, Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere
, had a distinguished career with the Indian Civil Service
. His thirty-three years in India were broken by only two spells of home leave, in each... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Flora Annie Steel | Flora Annie Webster
married Henry William Steel
, a member of the Indian Civil Service
; each one said later that but for pressure from or obligation to other people they would have pulled out... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Flora Macdonald Mayor | FMM
's mother, born Alexandrina Jessie Grote
, was a musician Morgan, Janet. “Introduction: The Squire’s Daughter”. The Rector’s Daughter, Virago, 1987, p. v - xii. vii Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Flora Macdonald Mayor |
Residence | Flora Annie Steel | FAS
's husband
retired from the Indian Civil Service
and the couple set out to return to Britain. Three hundred veiled women gathered at the railway station to see her off. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981. 59-60 |
Travel | Flora Annie Steel | From Calcutta they travelled by train to Delhi, then by box on wheels Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981. 12 |
Timeline
1853: The Charter Act replaced patronage appointments...
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1853
The Charter Act replaced patronage appointments to the Indian Civil Service
with competitive examinations open to British subjects of all classes.
Cohen, Emmeline W. The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-1939. Archon Books, 1965, http://U of G.
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