Kitty Kirkpatrick
Katherine Aurora "Kitty" Kirkpatrick (9 April 1802 – 1889) was born in India to James Achilles Kirkpatrick, British Resident in Hyderabad (1798–1805), and Khair-un-Nissa, a Hyderabadi noblewoman, but lived most of her life in England. She was for a few years the love interest of the Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle.
Read more about Kitty Kirkpatrick: Early Life in India, Personal Life, Contact With India in Later Life
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