Nineteen-year-old Harriet Earle
married Robert Tytler
, a Captain of the 38th Native Infantry with years of military service behind him, at Lucknow in India, after he had proposed to her repeatedly.
Mason, Philip et al. “Editorial materials”. An Englishwoman in India, edited by Anthony Sattin, Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. xviii - xxiii; 175.
xviii, 203
Tytler, Harriet, and Philip Mason. An Englishwoman in India. Editor Sattin, Anthony, Oxford University Press, 1986.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Harriet Tytler
Around 1849, HT
's husband
fell ill with severe brain fever after the family almost drowned in a houseboat on the way to Cawnpore. He was mortally ill for ten days before pulling through...
Family and Intimate relationships
Harriet Tytler
The following year, in autumn 1872, HT
's husband
died.
Editor Anthony Sattin
gives the date as October, but the Tytler family tree gives it as 10 September.
“Tytler Family Tree”. Anglo Indian Family Trees & their Links through Surnames.
Mason, Philip et al. “Editorial materials”. An Englishwoman in India, edited by Anthony Sattin, Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. xviii - xxiii; 175.
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Residence
Harriet Tytler
HT
and her children accompanied Captain Tytler
at his new posting in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
Mason, Philip et al. “Editorial materials”. An Englishwoman in India, edited by Anthony Sattin, Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. xviii - xxiii; 175.
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Travel
Harriet Tytler
Nearly a decade after their previous leave, HT
and her husband
again had eighteen months' furlough to spend in England.
“Appendix A: Pioneer Biographies of the British Period to 1947”. Lonely Islands: The Andamanese, 1997.