Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
British Museum
Connections
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Material Conditions of Writing | Agnes Strickland | Elizabeth
and AS
's historical studies in the British Museum
produced an edition of the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, to which they were able to bring much unpublished material. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. 785 (12 November 1842): 966-9 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Eliza Lynn Linton | 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. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 61 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
Literary responses | Mary Delany | In a letter she slighted her own work as my usual presumption of copying beautiful nature. Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol. 1 , pp. 203-35. 224 |
Leisure and Society | Anna Letitia Barbauld | She may have seen, exhibited at the British Museum
, the wonderful coloured representations of tropical insects and plants by the Dutchwoman Maria Merian
. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 97 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eva Gore-Booth | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Carrington | Besides capturing the essences of her models or subjects, Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Intertextuality and Influence | L. T. Meade | 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... |
Health | Julia Wedgwood | Between the ages of seventy and eighty, JW
's health began to fail. In addition to her lifelong deafness, she began to suffer from slowly encroaching blindness. She also suffered from cancer, which was removed... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Stopes | On 28 October 1905 CS
met fellow Shakespearean scholar Charles William Wallace
at the British Museum
. She described the meeting as a little romantic episode with a tall, handsome dreamy looking, proud, touchy American. Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare’s Lives. Clarendon Press. 645 Stopes, Charlotte. Burbage and Shakespeare’s Stage. Alexander Moring. ix |
Friends, Associates | Clementina Black | During the 1880s CB
studied privately at the library of the British Museum
. At this time, |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | Augustus Le Plongeon
, who was in London to study ancient Mayan objects at the British Museum
, met Alice Dixon
shortly after his arrival. Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico. 16-17 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Garnett | 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... |
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... |
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