Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Griffith | Her son (christened Richard like his father and uncle) did well in the East India Company
and later became an Irish landowner and Member of Parliament. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Leonowens | Two months after Anna's birth, her mother married second corporal Patrick Donoughey
, who was also with the East India Company
's private army. He was later demoted to private. Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus, 1976. 27 Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991. 1-2 |
| 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, 1979, p. v - xlxx. v |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Damaris Masham | DM
mentions her brother Charles as the Dearest Person in the World to me. She felt she was making a great sacrifice when she did not oppose his travelling to India as a factor with... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Wright | FW
's brother, Richard
, serving with the East India Company
, was killed en route to India in a skirmish with the French. Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984. 7 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Stuart Mill | His father, James Mill
, was a historian and head of the East India Company
's examiner's office; his son's autobiography introduces him as author of The History of British India, 1817. Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. 103 Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988. 503 |
| 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, 1984. 5, 6 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Catherine Hume | MCH
's mother, Maria Burnley
before her marriage, was the daughter of a wealthy proprietor in the East India Company
. She became her husband's political hostess and secretary. 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. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 240: 100 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Joseph Hume |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Tytler | HT
was devoted to her father, John Lucas Earle
. He was an army captain, later lieutenant-colonel in the Third Bengal Native Infantry
, in the service of the East India Company
. 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. “Appendix A: Pioneer Biographies of the British Period to 1947”. Lonely Islands: The Andamanese, 1997. Mason, Philip et al. “Editorial materials”. An Englishwoman in India, edited by Anthony Sattin, Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. xviii - xxiii; 175. 198 |
| 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, 1877, pp. 323-39. 330 Mercer, Edmund. “Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury”. Manchester Quarterly, Vol. 17 , 1898, pp. 301-21. 303 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, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1984, pp. 450-73. 467 Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000. 228 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bannerman | The brother, a surgeon with the East India Company
, died helping at the wreck of the ship Winterton. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Maria Tucker | CMT
's father, Henry St George Tucker
, lived in India from the age of fourteen to that of thirty-nine. A prominent citizen of Bengal, with expertise in Indian affairs and finance, he eventually became... |
| 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, 1990. 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, 1973, pp. xi - xxiv; 175. xvi |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Bowles | Her father was Charles Bowles
, a captain in the East India Company
. He retired from his post shortly after Caroline's birth and later served three terms as Lymington's Mayor. He suffered from frequent... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | William Makepeace Thackeray | His father, Richmond Thackeray
, was a secretary to the board of revenue in the East India Company
at Calcutta. He had another child outside his marriage, a daughter by an Indian woman. He died... |
Timeline
7 December 1829: The Governor General of India, Lord William...
National or international item
7 December 1829
The Governor General of India, Lord William Bentinck
, officially outlawed the practice of sati or suttee, the self-immolation of a Hindu widow at her husband's funeral, generally by burning.
Mani, Lata. Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India. University of California Press, 1998.
112-3
28 August 1833: An act opening trade to India and tea trade...
National or international item
28 August 1833
An act opening trade to India and tea trade to China began a new era in British commerce, ending the East India Company
's monopoly of the China trade.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 820
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
195
By mid nineteenth century: East India Company archives record the near...
Building item
By mid nineteenth century
East India Company
archives record the near disappearance of wills made by British men in India which left their property to Indian wives or mixed-race families. Back in the early 1780s a third of British...
10 May 1857-1858: The Indian Mutiny, a war for independence...
National or international item
10 May 1857-1858
The Indian Mutiny, a war for independence in northern India, began with the rebellion by sepoy troops in the Bengal army at Meerut, against the East India Company
.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 822-3
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
390-391
Hilton, Richard. The Indian Mutiny: A Centenary History. Hollis and Carter, 1957.
99
2 August 1858: Government and military control of India...
National or international item
2 August 1858
Government and military control of India was transferred by the Government of India Act from the East India Company
to the British Crown
after the successful suppression of the Indian Mutiny by the British army...
1 April 1867: The government of the Straits Settlements...
National or international item
1 April 1867
The government of the Straits Settlements (which included Singapore, Penang, and Malacca) was transferred from the government of India to the British Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 900
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
908
1 June 1874: The East India Company's 1854 charter ran...
National or international item
1 June 1874
The East India Company
's 1854 charter ran out, and the company was dissolved.
Gardner, Brian. The East India Company: A History. Hart-Davis, 1971.
296
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
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