madras Archives - Ann Lingard https://annlingard.co.uk/tag/madras/ writer, author, essayist, UK Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:54:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 ‘The Leech and the Pearl’ https://annlingard.co.uk/2018/06/25/the-leech-and-the-pearl/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:09:12 +0000 https://eliotandentropy.wordpress.com/?p=1173 Synopsis Catherine Maitland was born in Madras to an Anglo-Indian mother and a British father but, unlike her pale-skinned mother, Catherine is brown. Sent ‘home’ to boarding-school, she endured loneliness, and then the trauma of her mother’s death. Later, when mining engineer Hugh Oates is attracted by her ‘difference’ she is happy to marry him [...]

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