British Library

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 .

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...

Among the households where she lived were those of Elizabeth Carter (who sometimes read her work and discussed it with her) and of Edward Cave (the proprietor of the Gentleman's Magazine). It was Carter...

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.

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...

CBR married Polish poet and novelist Jerzy Pietrkiewicz (later Peterkiewicz), whom she had met at the British Library .

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...

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...

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...

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...

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