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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...

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

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...

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...

In her early teens, MB began earning money as a research assistant at the British Museum , a job which encouraged her interest in historical research and her hope for a career in writing. She...

The first year of her course gave her a position as Library Scholar in the Department of Printed Books at the then British Museum . She worked on the enquiry desk, then at cataloguing. She...

As soon as LTM reached London she began to study daily at the British Museum .

HW enrolled as a postgraduate student at Somerville College, Oxford , in November 1920, but never finished either the thesis or the residence requirements for her D.Phil. She developed at this stage an over-riding interest...

To train herself as a historian, ES plunged enthusiastically into working in the British Museum at history itself and also the study of early handwriting (palaeography), which she would need for deciphering original sources.

She also started drawing, despite having no money for paints or canvases, and gained permission to copy at the National Gallery and the British Museum . There, she learned the techniques of oil painting and...

After being demobbed from her wartime position at Bletchley she had spent some time reading daily in the British Library (then the British Museum reading room) to prepare for the entrance exams to Somerville.

FK had a British Museum reading-room ticket at seventeen: a newspaper article on the reading room mentioned (though not by name) the charming sight she and her mother made as they studied there—apparently in contrast...

Her memoirist says her thirst for letters was unquenchable, and the extent of her reading proves that her early years must have been years of application. Once in London she studied for herself at...

LMW dedicates her second book to a friend she has known for twelve years (identified in a manuscript note in the British Library copy, shelfmark C 175 l. 4, as Lady Marchmont ).

Again Johnson supplied her with a dedication (to the future George III ; a sheet of George's notes on the plays is bound into his presentation copy, now in the British Library ). The work...