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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...

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...

In 1891 LAM took her fish paintings to Albert Charles Günther , the British Museum ichthyologist. He admired them, but to her annoyance proclaimed them unsound scientific records because, although beautiful and correct, for scientific...

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 .

She received advice and encouragement with the actual writing, and help in choosing a title from Richard Garnett (Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum ). This time she knew that if a publisher...

HM gave a lecture at the British Museum in a series organized by the London Review of Books, as Undressing Anne Boleyn (printed in the same journal on 21 February as Royal Bodies).

She worked regularly in the British Museum (on those resources which are now devolved to the British Library ).

Eliza Lynn spent her first year in London reading in the British Museum and writing.

She wrote this while living in John Chapman 's house in London and reading Egyptology in the British Museum . She paid fifty pounds to secure its publication.

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...

While living in London she often studied at the British Museum .

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...

Augustus Le Plongeon , who was in London to study ancient Mayan objects at the British Museum , met Alice Dixon shortly after his arrival.

MK began to study under Albert Karl Günther , Keeper of the Zoological Department at the British Museum and specialist in the study of fish and reptiles.

For Kingsley's voyage the following year on behalf of the British Museum , Günther commissioned her to collect freshwater fish from the region between the Niger and Congo rivers, and he arranged for her to...