Women, environment, and networks of empire : Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in Madras / edited by Anna Winterbottom [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Winterbottom, Anna, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Watercolor painting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire is the first detailed study of the art and correspondence of Elizabeth Gwillim and her sister Mary Symonds in South India. The book explores what their work reveals about natural history, the natural environment, colonialism, and women's lives at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Contents:

Cover

Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One Painting, Collecting, and Observing

1 "Busy in Making Drawings of the Country": The Madras and Environs Album

Case Study 1 "I Have Had My Share of Amusement in Making Them": Mary Symonds's Pasteboard Models

2 The Ornithology of Elizabeth, Lady Gwillim

Case Study 2 "Curious for Fish": Ichthyological Watercolours

3 Mosques, Gopurams, Varied Waters, and Stormy Seas: Built and Natural Environments of Early Nineteenth-Century Madras

4 Lady Gwillim's Botany

Case Study 3 Indian Expertise on the Natural World in the Gwillim and Symonds Archives

5 Artistic and Literary Contexts: Ornithology and Natural History Studies in India - The Mughal and Early British Periods

Part Two Social Lives, Social Networks, and Material Culture

6 Sir Henry Gwillim: Tender Husband, "Fiery Briton," and Stalwart Judge

7 "My Things by the Ships Have All Come Safe": Clothing and Textiles in the Gwillim Letters and Drawings

Case Study 4 Lady Gwillim's China: A Case Study in Global Exchange

8 "There Are as Many Sorts of Mango as of Apples": The Gwillim Archive and the Emergence of Anglo-Indian Cuisine

9 Elizabeth Gwillim: The Lady as Proto-ethnographer

Case Study 5 Of Mimesis and Mockery: The Letters of Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds

10 Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds and the World of Women in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century India

Conclusion

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780228019879

0228019877

OCLC:

1395180874