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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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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)...

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.

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...

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.

AL became a member of a circle of reforming or socialist women who were mostly regulars in the ladies' lunch room at the British Museum .