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Jacob's Room is often said to be the first of VW 's fictional recreations of her brother Thoby (the others being The Waves and A Sketch of the Past). Hermione Lee calls the work...

SM 's topic here is sexuality in relation to a life vowed to celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church . Her protagonist, Sister Anna, is a missionary nun in Latin America. She is in...

An apparently contemporary hand wrote in the British Library copy: Rubbish.

In 1905 a writer in the South Wales Evening Post said he had survived reading all of AH 's novels in the British Library . In The Herald of Wales in 1939 another said they...

Alan Palmer , in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Duberly, remarks on her ready pen, eyes perceptive to detail, youthful self-confidence, and an incisive style softened by candid pathos.He finds her...

This style (moderate as it is by the standards of MF 's own community) provoked tetchiness in a former owner of the copy now in the British Library (G14297), who wrote a long and indignant...

JCM reaped a good deal of praise during her lifetime, but most of it must have been of questionable value to her as a poet. Pope 's To Erinna is typical in casting her as...

Lady CG enjoyed cultured activities like the theatre and the opera throughout her life. Reading Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë in December 1850 she thought it singular . . . written with force but coarseness, and not of...

Someone addressed a poem of compliment to the child LJC (now Harleian MS 4955, ff, 86-7 in the British Library ).

By undertaking archival work in seventeenth-century pamphlets, CM set out to ensure that her history should surpass that of Hume (who was generally regarded as a Tory historian, though he was ambivalent about this label)...

Dedicated by permission to William Gladstone , The Life of Josiah Wedgwood provides a full history of pottery in Britain, beginning with the Celts and Romans. As a portrait of a captain of industry it...

In her pamphlet dated 11 April 1699, AD wrote that, through Mercy, I can walk the Streets to visit the Sick, and my Friends and Relations also, and can see without Spectacles still.

Probably through sisters Kate Potter Courtney (whose house Harkness often stayed at) and Beatrice Potter (later Webb) , MH began to associate with the intellectuals who frequented the Reading Room of the British Museum ...

In 1776 the future AML recorded meeting the Corsican patriot Paoli and Dr Johnson ye Great. After her marriage her own and her husband's work brought her into contact with the cultured elite of London...

Beatrice Potter (the future Beatrice Webb) became a friend of Amy Levy during the 1880s through their shared use of the ladies' lunch room at the British Museum , where a group developed of young...