The Gwillim Project Online

The Gwillim Project centres around the unpublished correspondence and artwork of two sisters who lived in Madras at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The original materials are widely dispersed in institutions in Canada and the UK. The four volumes of their fulsome and affectionate correspondence in the British Library, peppered with small sketches and rich in details of local culture as well as domestic life, provide a remarkably granular snapshot of the world of an expatriate family in Madras between 1801 and 1808.

In the Summer and Fall of 2020, the Gwillim Project hosted a series of online presentations bringing to light some of the fascinating research stemming from this endeavour.