Cornovia PostcardsThomas Lawrence - Warren Hastings, c.1920 - National Portrait Gallery Postcard
Claire Barnes@Tony_Meredith
When I first read your question I thought a connection improbable; after some reflection & googling that changed!
The Wikipedia page on #JaneAusten was helpful, & thinking about the conversational & subscription networks of a force of nature like #JohnNichols - Jane's father & #WarrenHastings might well have been typical of the customers in this age of gentleman #bibliophiles and #antiquarians?
https://www.bl.uk/picturing-places/articles/the-nichols-family-and-their-press
'John Nichols & his circle' https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/2000/2000%20(74)%201-20%20Sweet.pdf
When I first read your question I thought a connection improbable; after some reflection & googling that changed!
The Wikipedia page on #JaneAusten was helpful, & thinking about the conversational & subscription networks of a force of nature like #JohnNichols - Jane's father & #WarrenHastings might well have been typical of the customers in this age of gentleman #bibliophiles and #antiquarians?
https://www.bl.uk/picturing-places/articles/the-nichols-family-and-their-press
'John Nichols & his circle' https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/2000/2000%20(74)%201-20%20Sweet.pdf
bs2> [in] 1788, when #WarrenHastings, the former governor of #Bengal, was impeached by #EdmundBurke.. the charge[was] that Hastings’s statecraft in #India represented an affront to the #British political system. With Hastings’s acquittal, the split came to be embedded at the heart of the imperial practices of the #Anglosphere..
The maintenance of dominance outweighed any other imperative of governance, and it was towards these ends that #statecraft was primarily oriented.
#AmitavGhosh on #Empire
The maintenance of dominance outweighed any other imperative of governance, and it was towards these ends that #statecraft was primarily oriented.
#AmitavGhosh on #Empire