British Museum

BE , needing money to support herself and her children, worked as a library officer in the British Museum (where the British Library was then housed) in London.

FF was fascinated by the occult and became immersed in the society. She took her spiritual studies very seriously, and spent a great deal of time in the British Museum reading room. After an internal...

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...

CG 's sister Clementina frequently studied at the British Museum and there became acquainted with Richard Garnett , superintendent of the Reading Room. She introduced Constance to Garnett's son Edward , who was a reader...

Margaret's father's house was crammed with books, selected by taste not by method. He seems to have felt it not only natural but satisfactory when the little girls pursued their own studies among the books...

EGB studied Greek manuscripts of St John's Gospel at the British Museum , and checked her translations against those of earlier Bible scholars. In her chapter Suggestions and Interpetations, she critiques the practices of...

TG spent most of his life as a don at Cambridge, first at Peterhouse and latterly at Pembroke Hall . Though satirical poems suggest that he hated Cambridge, he left it only for holiday trips...

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...

JEH began her lecturing career by giving conducted tours of the British Museum 's Greek art collections.

In LondonJEH was free to explore those aspects of Greek culture not covered by her degree, especially Greek art. A mentor, colleague, and friend in her research was Charles Newton , Keeper of...

She then attended a number of schools: a boarding establishment at Newbury in Berkshire between 1876 and 1877 (run by the Misses Godwin), a school in Paris from 1880 to 1881 (she was fluent in...

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...

BH did research for this novel in the British Museum , with help from a reverend librarian, whom I have the honour to call my friend. It was later sometimes referred to as Catherine the...

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...

The onset of her final illness followed on long hours of work in the British Museum , where she was assembling the fifth volume of Sacred and Legendary Art, and a walk home in a snowstorm.