George and Emily Eden

Pride, Privilege, Empire and the Whigs

AvBrigid Allen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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An illuminating insight into the sibling pair George and Emily Eden that traces their interlocking private and public lives.George and Emily Eden were a devoted sibling pair. Both unmarried, they were accepted as a mildly unconventional couple by friends in the dynastically conscious governing class. George (1784-1849) entered politics as a Whig to replace his elder brother, who had been groomed for success but drowned in the Thames off Westminster one January night in 1810. Four years later George inherited his father's peerage as 2nd Baron Auckland. In 1835 he was appointed Governor-General of India, and Emily (1797-1869), although reluctant to leave her close friend, the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, went with him. A witty and perceptive writer, who later published a distinctively voiced pair of novels, Emily chronicled the Indian period, as she did her entire adult life, in letters. Allen traces the development of her closeness to George, their interlocking private and public lives and the events that impacted on them, including the Afghan disaster of January 1842 and the mixture of blame and forbearance that George attracted at home. A poignant coda describes Emily's final twenty years as Victorian invalid, author, and observer of the political scene.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-25
Mått:152 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt:626 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:323
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9780718897451

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Brigid Allen studied History at Somerville College, Oxford and has a Ph.D from University College London. She has worked as an editorial researcher and archivist in many areas, from the papers of the American statesman Alexander Hamilton to private papers of the 19th- and 20th-century British in India. Her books and articles reflect diverse interests from diaries to food history, including the acclaimed literary biography Peter Levi, Oxford Romantic (2014).

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Witty, intelligent, frequently sardonic - and always class-conscious - Emily Eden captured her life elegantly with pen and sketchbook. And what a life it was! A daughter of the great Whig political world, Emily was hostess and companion for her much-loved brother George, 2nd Lord Auckland, Governor-General of India. This carefully researched book sweeps the reader from England to India, and back again, as it recounts their intertwined lives against the rich backdrop of English and imperial politics in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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PrefaceAcknowledgements Chapter One: A Suicide Chapter Two: The Family Chapter Three: George Chapter Four: Coping Chapter Five: A Sibling Household Chapter Six: Ireland, Greenwich, Reform Chapter Seven: A "Sough" of India Chapter Eight: Calcutta Chapter Nine: Up the Country Chapter Ten: The Toils of War Chapter Eleven: Glorious Ghuznee Chapter Twelve: Catastrophe Chapter Thirteen: Taking the Train Chapter Fourteen: Living On Appendix A: Where Are Emily's Papers? Appendix B: Emily and the Postcolonials Abbreviations and Explanations Selective Bibliography Endnotes Index