British Museum

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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Textual Features Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
The stories begin with Jack and the Beanstalk and include Bluebeard and Cinderella. EPW is not over-respectful of her sources. In her Jack and the Beanstalk Mrs Jones (the giant's wife) donates her late...
Textual Features John Oliver Hobbes
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...

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