[1] Julia Barrett's many admirers included Fanny Burney's parson son Alexander d'Arblay, but she chose instead to marry a widower with children, James Thomas (died 1840) on 2 August 1836, to the disappointment of her family.
[1] After her husband's death in 1840, Julia Thomas was remarried to Charles Maitland (1815–1866), a writer and Anglican curate of Lyndhurst, Hampshire, in the New Forest, on 5 November 1842.
[5] The school she and her husband ran in Rajahmundry accepted boys of different castes and taught in both English and the local language ("Gentoo").
The book ends with a plea for a national system of education in India, as the route to modernization: "If every civilian up the country were to have a poor little school like ours, it would do something in time.
"[6] She also made strong efforts to learn local languages, helped with famine relief, and investigated and condemned the South Indian slave trade.