British Museum

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Textual Features Barbara Hofland
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...
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 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.
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all struggling, mostly in vain, for affection and happiness.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press.
98-9
The...
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...
Residence Virginia Woolf
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)
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
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Residence Anna Atkins
After he retired from the British Museum , her father came to live with her and her husband in 1840.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press.
Residence Elizabeth Thomas
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...
Reception Anne Damer
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...
Reception Josephine Tey
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...
Reception Amy Levy
For years the British Museum (that part which is now the British Library ) shelved its copy of this poem in the suppressed safe
Ashworth, Jenn. “Amy Levy (1861 - 1888)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, pp. 26-39.
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of works so scandalous they had to be read under...
Publishing Louisa Stuart Costello
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...
Publishing Mary Delany
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...
Publishing Elizabeth Rigby
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.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
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Publishing Maria Callcott
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...
Publishing Susanna Watts
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...

Timeline

1879: The general public was first granted unrestricted...

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1879

The general public was first granted unrestricted access to the British Museum collections.

1879: Electric lighting was introduced at the library...

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1879

Electric lighting was introduced at the library of the British Museum in London; it was accepted slowly by Britain's other libraries.

1881: Incandescent electric lighting was installed...

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1881

Incandescent electric lighting was installed at the Savoy Theatre, London.

About June 1891: George Gissing published New Grub Street,...

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About June 1891

George Gissing published New Grub Street, a novel portraying the development of writing into a trade and authors into tradesmen.

1 November 1907: The British Museum's reading room reopened...

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1 November 1907

The British Museum 's reading room reopened after being cleaned and redecorated; the dome was embellished with the names of canonical male writers, beginning with Chaucer and ending with Browning .

1911: The collection known as the King's Music...

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1911

The collection known as the King's Music Library was given on permanent loan to the British Museum by King George V .

1933: The British Museum purchased Codex Sinaiticus...

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1933

The British Museum purchased Codex Sinaiticus from the Soviet government for £100,000.

29 March 1972: A major exhibition of ancient Egyptian treasures...

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29 March 1972

A major exhibition of ancient Egyptian treasures associated with the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun opened at the British Museum , to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the treasures on 16 February 1923.

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