Letters to Lydia: 'Beloved Persis'Lulu.com, 1 juli 2007 - 376 sidor Fact and Fiction: the 19th Century love affair between Henry Hartyn, a chaplain of the East India Company, and his 'beloved Persis' in Cornwall, Lydia Grenfell, based on their letters and diaries. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Part One Fact | 9 |
Marazion Cornwall | 11 |
Truro and Cambridge | 27 |
Giving Light to the Heathen | 33 |
Striving against this attachment | 41 |
Let her live happy and useful in her occupation | 47 |
Time and Tide | 57 |
Gool and Bulbul roses and nightingales | 169 |
It is the custom here to think much and speak little | 181 |
Heard from Tebriz from Mr M | 189 |
Living or dying remember me | 203 |
The Intelligence Affected me Variously | 211 |
He was known as a Man ofGod | 233 |
Lewis Morris | 237 |
Part Two Seventeen of Henrys Letters to Lydia | 239 |
The Passage to India | 73 |
Come out to me in India | 85 |
I write not to blame you | 105 |
The Fierce Ishmaelite | 127 |
Death is seated in my Lungs | 147 |
Everything bore the appearance ofcontentment | 159 |
Little Henry and his Bearer India | 291 |
married him The Brontë Connection | 307 |
Her Title ofHonour India and Persia | 329 |
Diagrams and Maps | 345 |
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