Laurence, Patricia Ondek. Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China. University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Mary Renault | MR
visited the Ashmolean Museum
while she was an undergraduate, and its Keeper, Sir Arthur Evans
, introduced her to replicas of his major discoveries including the Cretan Bull-leaper. The Museum also featured an extensive... |
| Textual Production | Michael Field | The same year Whym Chow was privately published by Eragny Press
(run by Lucien Pissarro
, son of the Impressionist painter, and his wife Esther
) and distributed to close friends of MF
. Only... |
| Textual Production | Ling Shuhua | LS authored catalogues of exhibitions of her paintings, including those held at the Musée Cernuschi
(with an introduction by André Maurois
) and the Ashmolean Museum
in Oxford in 1983. |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Siddal | The manuscripts of ES
's work are held at the Ashmolean Museum
in Oxford. Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery, 1991. 30 |
Timeline
From about 1667
John Aubrey
wrote the biographical jottings on authors and other celebrities known to posterity as his Brief Lives, as part of his extensive compilation of manuscript information on many topics.
21 May 1683
The Ashmolean Museum
in Oxford, built to house the collection of rarities of Elias Ashmole
(and thus the first purpose-built museum in the world), was dedicated.
1707
Edward Lhuyd
of the Ashmolean Museum
in Oxford first demonstrated in print that the ancient British language was related to the Gaelic of Ireland and Scotland.