Warren Hastings

Standard Name: Hastings, Warren

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Jane Austen
Eliza was a woman of the world. She was born in India and may have been the daughter not of her legal father but of Warren Hastings . She seems to have been an important...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Stockdale
MS 's father, John Stockdale , having been acquitted for publishing a libel (attacking the House of Commons over Warren Hastings ), himself printed The Whole Proceedings on the Trial . . . against John Stockdale.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
70 (1790): 582
Friends, Associates Cassandra Cooke
CC met Warren Hastings and his wife Marian at Adlestrop in January 1791, and remained on friendly terms: she sent a message congratulating him at the end of his marathon trial.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
132, 175
She and...
Literary responses Jane Porter
Again her work was extremely popular. The French translation was banned by Napoleon because of its portrayal of nationalist resistance to conquest.
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.
Mary Russell Mitford , who thought very highly of Porter, found Wallace in...
Material Conditions of Writing Phebe Gibbes
The first edition of this novel, advertised for sale in May and priced at seven shillings and sixpence, is now extremely rare.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 473
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. xi - lvii.
xix
PG wrote it at a time when India—and specifically Calcutta—was...
politics Richard Brinsley Sheridan
He held office under the Whigs, played a role in the trial of Warren Hastings , became an intimate friend of the Prince of Wales , and was a vital player (with Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
politics Martha Hale
MH seems to have been a moderate conservative in politics. She objected strongly to colonial exploitation, taking Warren Hastings as a champion of colonial subjects rather than an exploiter. By the late 1790s she was...
Publishing Martha Hale
Publishing Elizabeth Hamilton
EH dated her dedication to Warren Hastings (as her brother 's friend and patron) of Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
132
Textual Features Christian Isobel Johnstone
The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon (Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones (Read and you will know).
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd, 1828.
title-page
It portrays the widow Mrs...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Burney
Among the pleasures of FB 's life-writing are the way it revels in nonce-words and other innovative uses of language, and the play it makes with dramatic techniques like scene-setting and dialogue. Many famous passages...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Leah Sumbel
Over the signature Old Kent, Mary Wells (later LS ) contributed to The World theatre criticism and reports of, for instance, the trial of Warren Hastings . She and her friend Elizabeth Inchbald supplied...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Martha Hale
She writes on public themes with equal panache, attacking colonial appropriations and in another poem calling Warren Hastings an oppressed hero. She addresses public men and women, and here too is attentive to women's issues...

Timeline

By March 1774: Warren Hastings became the first English...

National or international item

By March 1774

Warren Hastings became the first English Governor-General of India.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
318
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
2:136

13 May 1774: George Bogle was chosen as envoy to Tibet...

National or international item

13 May 1774

George Bogle was chosen as envoy to Tibet (sent by Warren Hastings ); he established diplomatic relations with the Teshu Lama.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
128
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1775: Major Alexander Hannay (sent by Warren Hastings)...

National or international item

1775

Major Alexander Hannay (sent by Warren Hastings ) established diplomatic relations with the Mogul (or Mughal) Emperor in India.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
128

About 27 March 1782: Eliza Hancock, aged nineteen, married Jean-François...

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About 27 March 1782

Eliza Hancock , aged nineteen, married Jean-François Capot de Feuillide , a Frenchman who claimed to be a count and who inaccurately supposed her to be a wealthy heiress.
Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking, 1997.
49, 51

By January 1786: Charles Wilkins' translation from Sanskrit...

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By January 1786

Charles Wilkins ' translation from Sanskrit of the Bhagvat Gita was published at the particular desire of Warren Hastings and by the authority of the court of directors of the East India Company .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
61 (1786): 1

13 February 1788-April 1795: Warren Hastings was impeached for corruption...

National or international item

13 February 1788-April 1795

Warren Hastings was impeached for corruption and profiteering in India. His trial continued intermittently in London, occupying 145 days. It was keenly attended by a fashionable audiences and garnered much media attention.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
204
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
Young, Brian. “A Cheat, a Sharper and a Swindler”. London Review of Books, 24 May 2001, pp. 34-5.
34

28 May-16 June 1794: Edmund Burke made his nine-day speech, spread...

Writing climate item

28 May-16 June 1794

Edmund Burke made his nine-day speech, spread over the course of this period, in reply to the defence offered at the trial of Warren Hastings .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Burke

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