Letters Home

By: Ciel Haviland
  • Summary

  • A podcast that enlivens the letters of the English sisters Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in 1801-1807 while they were in Madras, India, and enters into conversation with the researchers who investigated their lives.


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  • Elizabeth and Mary in context with Dr. Anna Winterbottom
    Sep 15 2024

    Dr. Anna Winterbottom helps me to put the lives of Elizabeth and Mary in context of their place and time: what was India? What was science? How does one do that research?

    All of Dr. Anna Winterbottom's articles and publications can be found here. Information on her book: Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World.

    Welcome to Letters Home, a podcast that explores the lives and interests of Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds, English sisters in India at the turn of the nineteenth century. Over eight episodes Rosie Noskwith and Amber Craig read letters from the sisters to their family in England and host Ciel Haviland talks with researches who explored a facet of the life they exposed.

    The Gwillim Project website
    The Gwillim Project youtube channel
    The book! Women, Environment and Networks of Empire



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    45 mins
  • Welcome to Letters Home!
    Sep 6 2024

    Welcome to Letters Home, a podcast that explores the lives and interests of Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds, English sisters in India at the turn of the nineteenth century. Over eight episodes Rosie Noskwith and Amber Craig read letters from the sisters to their family in England and host Ciel Haviland talks with researches who explored a facet of the life they exposed.

    The Gwillim Project website
    The Gwillim Project youtube channel
    The book! Women, Environment and Networks of Empire

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    3 mins

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