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JEC 's friends in London included the scholar Richard Garnett (superintendent of the British Museum reading room and future father-in-law of another translator, Constance Garnett ). They met in 1877 or 1878, and Richard Garnett...

Though at least partly resident in Edinburgh, SF did not mingle with the literary set known as the Edinburgh Bluestockings. Apart from her large circle of siblings and in-laws, her closest friends were Charlotte Clavering

They maintained a friendship until he died in January 1928. After his death, Hardy's executors gave CM a British Museum Reading Room slip on which he had copied her poem Fin de Fête.

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...

At fourteen BB fell seriously in love with a German prisoner of war, Harry Arno Franz , who was ten years older. They were constantly together over the summer of 1947, though they were not...

Aldington was about six years younger than HD; they were introduced to one another by Pound in early 1912, and at first their courtship was largely conducted in his presence, as the three studied and...

He was born Samuel Pipe, and assumed the name Wolferstan in connection with an inheritance; as well as his formidable estate at Statfold near Tamworth, he had another at Pipe near Lichfield. A...

LH 's eldest maternal uncle, Harcourt Griffin , was a composer, and a number of his pieces are held by the British Library . One of these, Weep not for the Dead, features words...

Elizabeth Carter was Lady Spencer's mentor on religion and reassured her that her high social station made it necessary, even meritorious, to be to a large extent worldly. The Althorp MSS at the British Library

FK 's mother was born Frances (or Fanny) Warne . She was English, the eldest of a large family whose father worked in the shipyards at Stockton-on-Tees and whose mother was felt to have married...

Henry Locke was a half-brother of the younger Rose Hickman, later Throckmorton , who at the age of eighty-four wrote for her children a brief but vivid account of her life up to the time...

ESG 's husband having decreed her banishment to a convent in France, she set off in the snow on Christmas Eve.

Without any knowledge about sexuality, MS was married in Montreal to Canadian botanist Reginald Ruggles Gates ; he turned out to be impotent.

He had first met Florence nearly nine years earlier, and she had volunteered, since she lived near London, to look up references for him at the British Museum . Five years after that she had...