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Employer Marjorie Bowen
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Beryl Bainbridge
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Locke
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Marie Stopes
Without any knowledge about sexuality, MS was married in Montreal to Canadian botanist Reginald Ruggles Gates ; he turned out to be impotent.
The ODNB points out that while she published her assertions of his...
Family and Intimate relationships Marie Stopes
MS took some time to realise there was something wrong with her marriage; reading in the British Museum enlightened her. She left Gates in 1914, and obtained an annulment of the marriage for non-consummation in...
Family and Intimate relationships H. D.
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Laurence Hope
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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
Family and Intimate relationships Flora Klickmann
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
ESG 's husband having decreed her banishment to a convent in France, she set off in the snow on Christmas Eve.
She says 1778, which is probably a year too late. A manuscript note...
Family and Intimate relationships Thomas Hardy
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Christine Brooke-Rose
CBR married Polish poet and novelist Jerzy Pietrkiewicz (later Peterkiewicz), whom she had met at the British Library .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Brooke-Rose, Christine. Remake. Carcanet.
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Friends, Associates Beatrice Webb
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...
Friends, Associates Charlotte Mew
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.
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, p. vii - xx.
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Timeline

20 October 1940: 10,000 bound volumes of English and Irish...

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20 October 1940

10,000 bound volumes of English and Irish newspapers held by the British Museum were destroyed and a further 15,000 were damaged by bombing at Colindale north of London.

25 October 1997: The Round Reading Room at the British Library...

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25 October 1997

The Round Reading Room at the British Library was finally closed.

7 February 2007: First-time writer Stef Penney was awarded...

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7 February 2007

First-time writer Stef Penney was awarded the 2006 Costa (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year prize (worth £25,000) for her novelThe Tenderness of Wolves.

6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...

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6 October 2010

A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes , Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC 's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce .
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.

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