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The Gwillim Project

The Gwillim Project

A Remarkably Granular Snapshot of the World of an Expatriate Family in Madras between 1801 and 1808

  • About
    • About the Gwillim Project
    • The Network
    • Acknowledgements
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Media
    • Contact Us
  • Personal Lives
    • The Families
      • Elizabeth Gwillim
      • Henry Gwillim
      • Mary Symonds
    • Gwillim’s World: People
    • Gwillim’s World: Places
    • Gwillim’s London
    • Timeline
  • Letters
    • Letters
    • Reading the Letters
    • Letters and Sketches
    • Transcriptions
      • Extracts
  • Artwork
    • Artwork
      • The Gwillim Collection
      • The Madras Album
    • Sisters as Painters: Influence, Style, Attribution
    • “I shall want colours and paper for drawing”: Artists’ Materials
    • Gwillim’s Backgrounds
    • Mary Symonds’s Pasteboard Models
    • Mary Symonds’s Portrait Miniatures
    • A Scene from a Sanskrit Drama: Mary Symonds’s painting of the Śakuntalā
  • Natural History
    • Birds
      • Comparisons of Gwillim’s Birds
      • Feathers
    • Fish
      • “Curious for fish”: Mary Symonds’s Fish Watercolours 
      • Comparisons of Symonds’ Fish
    • Botany
      • Botanical Exchanges
      • Transporting Plants between India and England
    • Informants on the Natural World
    • “Seasoning to the Climate”: Health, Climate and Medicine
    • “Something of the Climate”: Observing the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Madras
    • Landscape
  • Case Studies
    • Mapping the Gwillim Environment
    • Behind the scenes: colonial violence and resistance in the Gwillim archive
    • What the Gwillims Read in Madras
    • Translating a sthala-purāņa
    • A Kitchen in Nineteenth-Century Madras
    • Lady Gwillim’s China
    • “Best for this country”: Limerick Gloves
  • Events
    • Events
    • Exhibitions
    • Webinars

Newsletter Archive

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Newsletter Issue 14
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Newsletter Issue 12
Newsletter Issue 11
Newsletter Issue 10
Newsletter Issue 9
Newsletter Issue 8
Newsletter Issue 7
Newsletter Issue 6
Newsletter Issue 5
Newsletter Issue 4
Newsletter Issue 3
Newsletter Issue 2
Newsletter Issue 1

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