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Occupation Marie Stopes
She also taught at London University, and became a Fellow of University College, London , in 1910. At this stage her research focussed on paleobotany, the study of fossil plants. (Her work in the field...
Occupation Freya Stark
FS worked as a research assistant to Margaret Jourdain at the British Museum .
Izzard, Molly. Freya Stark: A Biography. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Education Freya Stark
In Baghdad she studied Persian, Arabic, the Koran, and other aspects of Islamic culture, and once back from this expedition she spent much time studying the history of Middle Eastern cults at the British Museum .
Occupation Muriel Spark
After the war, MS got an editorial job on the Argentor, the quarterly trade magazine of the National Jewellers' Association . The work involved writing, editing, proof-reading, and research on jewellery at the College of Heralds
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...
Education Dora Russell
After finishing her degree course at Girton College , Dora Black (later Russell ) studied French, and eighteenth-century French literature in particular, at University College, London . She did her work mainly in the British Museum
Family and Intimate relationships A. Mary F. Robinson
AMFR married James Darmesteter after a brief courtship; it was said that she had proposed to him, in August 1887, shortly after their first meeting at the British Museum .
Sources disagree on the date...
Education Elizabeth Rigby
While in Germany, she learned German and developed an appreciation of German arts which informs her later writings. (She also taught herself Russian while living with her sister in the Baltics.)
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
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Staying in...
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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politics Dorothy Richardson
With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum 's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere...
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.
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The...
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.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
It took her nearly two years to settle his estate...
Material Conditions of Writing Sylvia Pankhurst
Her work on India was the result of many months' research at the British Museum ; she never actually visited India.
Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan.
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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...
Intertextuality and Influence E. Nesbit
It had previously been serialized from May 1905 to May 1906. Its treatment of ancient Egyptian magic owes a good deal to the information she received from Ernest Wallis Budge , Keeper of Egyptian and...

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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