Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Indian Army
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Eva Mary Bell | Her heroine, Esmé Delamain, beautiful, aristocratic, and rich, has married a much older husband, Dick Norman, an able and highly respected officer in the Indian Army
. One of EMB
's sisters was named Esmé... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Hope | Adela Cory (who later published as LH
) married Malcolm Hassels Nicolson
, a colonel in the British Armed Forces
(either the Bengal Army or the Bombay Army) in India. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eva Mary Bell | Eva Mary Hamilton
was married at Cheltenham to Captain George Henry Bell
of the Indian Army
, whose military service had already led him to Egypt (1888-9; he was there again in 1914) and Waziristan (1901-2). Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk. Ancestry.co.uk Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage. http://www.thepeerage.com/. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1450533/BELL,%20GEORGE%20HENRY. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Box | When Muriel was about six her brother, Vivian, was badly injured in a freak accident when a pan of boiling oil upended over him. It was expected that he would lose his sight, but it... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | BWC
's eldest son died young while serving with the Indian Army
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (30 August 1916): 9 |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Flora Annie Steel | One of these warmly admired men was Malcolm Nicolson
of the Indian Army
, who later married Adela Florence Cory
. FAS
's biographer suggests that she was not fond of this woman (known after... |
| Author summary | Eva Mary Bell | EMB
's fourteen books, published between 1910 and 1931, are mostly novels, and most of them appeared under the pseudonym of John Travers. She is remembered, if at all, for those set in British... |
| Residence | Emma Roberts | Following her mother's death, ER
set out for India with her sister and her brother-in-law, Captain Robert Adair McNaghten
, an officer in the 61st Bengal Infantry
. Spellings of her brother-in-law's name vary: ER |
| Residence | Laurence Hope | Malcolm Hassels Nicolson
became Commanding Officer of the Western Command of the Indian Army
, and he and his wife (who was soon to be publishing as the poet LH
) moved to Mhow in Indore. Marx, Edward. The Idea of a Colony. University of Toronto Press, 2004. 45 |
| Textual Features | Flora Annie Steel | This novel features the usual complex plot of personal relations among people of different racial backgrounds. It evokes a past when both the religious and the racial mix in India was very different, in comparing... |
| Textual Features | Eva Mary Bell | At a moment when Brownie Abrahams is furious with her husband for losing her dressing case, Mary, left literally holding the baby, meets and exchanges wry comments with Gordon Lund, formerly of the Indian Army |
| Textual Production | Eva Mary Bell | EMB
published another John Travers novel, In the Long Run. Like Sahib-log, this features the Indian experience of a young woman recently married to an older officer in the Indian Army
. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Timeline
July 1860: The Indian Army was amalgamated with the...
National or international item
July 1860
The Indian Army
was amalgamated with the British Army
.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 823
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