Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
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British Museum
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Travel | Jane Porter | She was still there in early May 1842, when Robert suffered a stroke and died, the day before they were to leave for home. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriett Mozley | Her letters, on the evidence of those included in Dorothea Mozley
's Newman Family Letters (published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
in 1962), are highly intelligent and entertaining. As a girl she rattles... |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Osborne | After the two were married, he kept the letters in his cabinet. They descended in the family until sold to the British Museum
in 1891 (except a few which have been lost). Only a few... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth von Arnim | She requested that after she died, everything that might threaten the eyes and reason of the biographer be destroyed. qtd. in Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986. 313 |
| Textual Production | Noel Streatfeild | NS
's other writing for children included plays (a collected volume, The Children's Matinee, 1934) and a remarkable life of The Boy Pharaoh, Tutankhamen for young readers, published in 1972 to coincide with the... |
| Textual Production | Penelope Fitzgerald | The month of PF
's family biography also saw her first novel, The Golden Child, a detective story centred on the British Museum during the hugely popular Tutankhamun
Exhibition which opened on 29 March... |
| Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | In preparing the book, AG
consulted nineteenth-century editions of Middle Irish texts at the British Museum
, the National Library in Dublin
, and the Royal Irish Academy
. From these, she aimed to produce... |
| Textual Production | L. T. Meade | LTM
published a volume of oriental short stories entitled Under the Dragon Throne in collaboration with Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas
, Keeper of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts at the British Museum
. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| Textual Production | Edith Somerville | The full title was An Incorruptible Irishman, Being an account of Chief Justice Charles Kendal Bushe
, and of his wife, Nancy Crampton, and their times, 1767-1843. ES
set out in November 1930 to... |
| Textual Production | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | BBBD
was a conscientious and entertaining letter-writer with a large circle of correspondents. The Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
holds a collection of her correspondence from the 1840s with Frances Parker, Countess of Morley |
| Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they... |
| Textual Production | Marina Warner | MW
has addressed the current shift in the aims and conditions of British universities, first in a Diary column for the London Review of Books in September 2014 (in which she tells the story of... |
| Textual Features | Barbara Pym | This novel takes a darker view of relationships than most of Pym's earlier works, depicting suburbia as inhabited by misfits and eccentric loners, Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992. 98 Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992. 98-9 |
| Textual Features | Amelia B. Edwards | 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... |
| Textual Features | Eliza Lynn Linton | In crediting to herself the collection rather than the editing, of this material, for which she had done substantial work in the British Museum
, she perhaps sold herself short, for her preface makes it... |
Timeline
11 May 868: The earliest printed book extant which bears...
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11 May 868
The earliest printed book extant which bears a date, a classic Buddhist text entitled The Diamond Sutra, was printed in China on this day, as a tribute to both his parents from a man...
1705: The German-born entomologist Maria Sibilla...
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1705
The German-born entomologist Maria Sibilla Merian
(1647-1717) published at Amsterdam her handsome folio titled in Latin Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium and illustrated by herself.
Her second name is variously spelled. The British Library Catalogue records Sibylla...
5 April 1753: The British Parliament paid the daughters...
National or international item
5 April 1753
The British Parliament paid the daughters of the late Sir Hans Sloane
£20,000 for his scientific collections. This transaction was previously laid out by Sloane's will from 20 July 1749.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
171
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
15 January 1759: The first reading room of the British Museum...
National or international item
15 January 1759
The first reading room of the British Museum
was opened.
Caygill, Marjorie. The Story of the British Museum. British Museum Publications, 1981.
4, 6
Wilson, David M. The British Museum: Purpose and Politics. British Museum Publications, 1989.
13-14
Barwick, George. The Reading Room of the British Museum. Ernest Benn, 1929.
34
15 January 1759: The British Museum (including what had formerly...
Building item
15 January 1759
The British Museum
(including what had formerly been known as the King's Library
), established six years earlier, was first opened to the public.
Gray, Thomas, and Herbert Willmarth Starr. Correspondence. Editors Toynbee, Paget and Leonard Whibley, Clarendon Press, 1971, 3 vols.
2: 620 and n14
23 August 1799: Napoleon left his command in Egypt and headed...
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23 August 1799
Napoleon
left his command in Egypt and headed for Paris, leaving behind him most of the huge haul of the country's artefacts which had already been packed for shipping to France.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xv
Pagden, Anthony. “C is for Colonies”. London Review of Books, 11 May 2006, pp. 30-1.
31
1801: Thomas Bruce, Seventh Earl of Elgin, received...
Building item
1801
Thomas Bruce
, Seventh Earl of Elgin, received permission to draw and make casts from statues at the Parthenon in Athens.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
131-2
1802: The Rosetta stone, whose three-fold inscription...
Building item
1802
The Rosetta stone, whose three-fold inscription offered the opportunity of learning to decode ancient Egyptian, was presented to the British Museum
after being captured in the Egyptian campaign the previous year.
James, Thomas Garnet Henry. “Secrets of the stone deciphered”. Guardian Weekly, 25–31 Oct. 2001, p. 16.
16
15 February 1816: Lord Elgin petitioned the House of Commons:...
National or international item
15 February 1816
Lord Elgin
petitioned the House of Commons
: he wanted to compel the British Museum
to buy his collection of ancient Greek artefacts, the Elgin Marbles (especially the famous frieze from the Parthenon in Athens).
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
282-6
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
132
1818: A Select Committee of the House of Commons...
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1818
A Select Committee of the House of Commons
recommended that the eleven free copies of books which publishers were currently obliged to provide for the Copyright Libraries be limited to a single copy for the...
1825: Alexander Dyce, then a twenty-seven-year-old...
Women writers item
1825
Alexander Dyce
, then a twenty-seven-year-old reluctant clergyman, published his Specimens of British Poetesses, a project in rediscovering women's literary history.
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
210-11
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 81
Salzman, Paul. “How Alexander Dyce Assembled Specimens of British Poetesses: A Key Moment in the Transmission of Early Modern Women’s Writing”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
26
, No. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 88-105. 88-9, 91, 95-6, 97, 98, 101
1856: Richard Owen, a rival of Darwin and Huxley,...
Building item
1856
Richard Owen
, a rival of Darwin
and Huxley
, was appointed superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum
.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
410
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
100
2 May 1857: A grand dome designed by Panizzi was opened...
Building item
2 May 1857
A grand dome designed by Panizzi
was opened in what had been the central courtyard of the British Museum
.
Barwick, George. The Reading Room of the British Museum. Ernest Benn, 1929.
65, 71, 88, 102, 104-5, 136, 139
Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
69
1865: The Elgin Marbles were repaired and rearranged...
Building item
1865
The Elgin Marbles were repaired and rearranged at the British Museum.
Spencer, Robin. The Aesthetic Movement: Theory and Practice. Studio Vista, 1972.
31
1869: The British Museum opened its mineral collection...
National or international item
1869
The British Museum
opened its mineral collection to the public.
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
126
Texts
Hayden, Ruth. Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers. British Museum, 1986.