John Alexander Dunlop Agnew Wallace
, born in 1774, joined the army and became a general as well as a baronet. According to the ODNB he was commissioned in 1787, travelled to India in 1789...
Literary Setting
Wilkie Collins
This book, in which the effects of British colonial rule in India reverberate within English provincial life, is counted amongst the first detective novels, and proved as popular as The Woman in White. In...
Publishing
Ellis Cornelia Knight
In addition to novels, ECK
also wrote poetry. An eight-page pamphlet of her verse was printed by Bondoni
in Parma in 1793, presenting her Lines Address'd To Victory in Consequence of the Success of Lord Cornwallis
Textual Features
Mary Frere
The volume includes The Narrator's Narrative, Anna Liberata
's account of her life, summarized by MF
from many conversations but using so far as possible her own words of expressive but broken English.
Frere, Mary et al. Old Deccan Days. 3rd edition, Revised, John Murray, 1881.
xviii
Textual Features
Barbara Hofland
BH
admires, she says, Fay's female fortitude and calm endurance.
Hofland, Barbara. The Captives in India. R. Bentley, 1834, 3 vols.
1: prelims
Critic Lois Chaber
enumerates the genres that make up The Captives in India as follows: bildungsroman, historical adventure, byronic tale, captivity narrative, historical...
Textual Features
Barbara Hofland
At the date of the novel's main action the French Revolution is in progress; Olivia and Adelaide have a brush with mob violence as they travel through France early in the story. In India the...
Timeline
February 1792: British forces defeated Tippoo Sahib at Seringapatam,...
National or international item
February 1792
British forces defeated Tippoo Sahib
at Seringapatam, in the Third Mysore War.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
62
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.
2: 207n3
4 May 1799: Forces in Mysore, India, opposing British...
National or international item
4 May 1799
Forces in Mysore, India, opposing British rule were finally defeated at the second capture of Seringapatam.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
under Seringapatam
Marshall, Peter James. Problems of Empire: Britain and India, 1757-1813. Allen and Unwin, 1968.
under Seringapatam
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
70 (1800): 165-6
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.