Episode 30: Elizabeth Sharaf-un-Nisa

03/08/22 • 48 min

Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History

Elizabeth Sharaf-un-Nisa to "Philo" In which a Mughal woman who co-habitated with and eventually married a white employee of the East India Company writes to her son about fat babies and beautiful black pigs. I am joined by Dr. Megan Robb, the Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor of South Asian Religion at the University of Pennsylvania, who is creating a digital archive of Sharaf-un-Nisa's letters. This fantastic project is called Unstable Archives, and you can visit it here: https://unstable-archives.com/

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John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough to Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough, 13 Aug. 1704 In which Daniel Parke meets his Tragical End. References: I used the ODNB for research but because of capitalism that's behind a paywall. So here's Abel Boyer's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Boyer The Political state of Great Britain. London, Eng. : Printed for J. Baker and T. Warner, January 1710-11, 335-39. “Virginia Gleanings In England,” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Oct. 1912, 372-381 Micajah Perry to William Byrd, 12 May 1711. The Correspondence of The Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia 1684-1776. Ed. Marion Tinling (Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press) 280.

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Episode 31: Vile Names and Ill Language

In which John Custis IV and Frances Parke make an attempt to live "peace quietly" together. Part IV of the Martha Washington's in laws series. References: A Marriage Agreement. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Jul., 1896, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jul., 1896), pp. 64-66. John Custis: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/custis-john-1678-1749/ Custis, John, and Josephine Little Zuppan. The Letterbook of John Custis IV of Williamsburg, 1717-1742 / Edited by Josephine Little Zuppan. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Brady, Patricia. Martha Washington : an American Life / Patricia Brady. New York: Viking, 2005.