[lit-ideas] Re: "Vanitas Vanitatum"

  • From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:55:15 +0100

Wednesday, September 8, 2004, 3:51:13 AM, Ceridwen Harris wrote:


CH> Anglo-Indian can be used in two ways - as 1) settled in India but
CH> of British origin 2) being of mixed race, English and Indian

That's why I said

JE to AA>(if by Anglo-Indian you mean -- my apologies --  people of
JE to AA>"mixed race):

that is, hence the "if".

But I believe I misinterpreted something I read about Thackeray's
mother; it seems she, like his father, was of Anglo-Indian -- in sense
1) -- descent.



-- 
 Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK   
mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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