Letters to Lydia: 'Beloved Persis'

Letters to Lydia: 'Beloved Persis'
Author: Barbara Eaton
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2007-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1847536301

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.

Letters to Lydia Beloved Persis

Letters to Lydia Beloved Persis
Author: Barbara Eaton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2016-11-16
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ISBN: 9781539706427

Summer 1805: Lydia Grenfell, the youngest daughter of a Cornish tin and copper agent confides in her diary her feelings for the young man who has fallen deeply in love with her. Henry Martyn, the young Cornishman, has excelled in classics and mathematics at Cambridge. Newly ordained, he is setting forth on the long and adventurous voyage to India in his posting as a chaplain to the East India Company. Martyn will achieve recognition as a missionary and as the translator of the New Testament into Urdu, Farsi and Arabic. He will travel through India, Persia and Turkey while they continue their affair by letter, waiting anxiously up to 16 months for replies. But will Lydia remain at home in Marazion or will she be able to leave Cornwall behind and join him in India?

A Passion for Nature

A Passion for Nature
Author: Deirdre Dare
Publisher: Hypatia Publications
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781872229584

The biography of Victorian botanist, social historian, and educator, Charles Alexander Johns (1811-1874), best known for the classic guide Flowers of the Field.