British Museum

In Some Emotions and a Moral characters are beset by unhappy loves and ill-advised marriages. Cynthia rejects the writer Godfrey Provence because he is an artist, and marries instead the more manageable Edward, who dies...

The title-page quotes Shakespeare , who is then cited in the preface to justify the genre of historical fiction. HRM mentions her consultations of records and documents, and expresses her thanks to the gentlemen of...

BH explains that she intends to vindicate the character of Richard III (who in her view came back as Perkin Warbeck ) and expose Henry VII as a villain. She used the British Museum again...

ABE seizes the attention of her audience from her first paragraph with her claim that to the surprise of scholars, ancient Egyptian woman turns out to have been always free, respected, and in the full...

After he retired from the British Museum , her father came to live with her and her husband in 1840.

After she was widowed, ET's mother moved from near London (in Surrey) to the capital itself: Wyans Court, just off Great Russell Street in Bloomsbury (near the original British Museum ). They stayed...

Virginia was keen to regain access to the amenities of London—music, the British Museum , social life (her delight in parties, she wrote, was a piece of jewellery I inherit from my mother)

Daviot was sued for plagiarism by Gillian Oliver , the author of a novel about Richard II titled The Broomscod Collar (1930). The case was settled out of court, and the arbitrator judged that the...

For years the British Museum (that part which is now the British Library ) shelved its copy of this poem in the suppressed safe of works so scandalous they had to be read under...

AD 's art and her gender made her a kind of tourist attraction. She complained of being teazed and tired to death with the number of persons coming to see her work, and making crass...

While ER was writing Fellowship she was also collaborating with Harriet Grote on an article calling for reforms to the British Museum . Their article appeared anonymously in the January 1868 Quarterly Review.

She made some editorial changes, for publication, to all her South American writings done while she was actually there, and resolved to omit all quotation from private letters or conversation, though her editor says she...

SW 's authorship of this work was not known in her lifetime. This was a member of a very new genre: it represented only the third or fourth guidebook in English about a non-resort location...

She had been working on these translations for some years. This handsome work was (in the words of the old Dictionary of National Biography) enriched with curious illustrations laboriously executed by hand, by...

She began using the new technique in 1772. The idea of the collection dates from 1774, but she included in it a few representations made before that. She titled the volumes Plants copied after Nature...