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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Episodes
  • How to learn about plants in 1801 with Henry Noltie
    Nov 24 2024

    A great chat with Henry Noltie about plants and Elizabeth Gwillim's efforts to master botany and my cat needs to go in and out of the room.

    For the online symposium on Lady Gwillim's Botany:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASrfoZAml2Y&ab_channel=TheGwillimProjectOnline

    For a fantastic chapter on Indians painting in an English style in Forgotten masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, edited by William Dalrymple.

    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
  • Is it Costume or Dress? Talking about the history of clothing with a dynamic trio
    Nov 10 2024

    Please enjoy this episode, where we get into English and Indian historic dress at the turn of the 19th century through Mary and Elizabeth’s letters with Alexandra Kim, Dr. Ann Wass, and Dr. Toolika Gupta.

    Webinar: "My Things from the Ship are All Come Safe"
    and
    Case study: “Best for this country”: Limerick Gloves

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    50 mins
  • The Birds of South India and Elizabeth’s Watercolors with Dr. S. Subramanya
    Oct 27 2024

    Digital collection of Elizabeth Gwillim's watercolors of birds at McGill Rare Books and Special Collections here.

    More information at the Gwillim Project here.

    For more information Hidden Hands in Colonial Natural Histories, find their website here.

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    39 mins

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