Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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death | May Sinclair | She was cremated after her funeral on 18 November at the chapel in Golders Green Cemetery. Her ashes were buried in Hampstead churchyard. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 155 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | Scholar Elizabeth Miller
discovered that Bram Stoker
's own notes identify EG
's Transylvanian Superstitions as a significant source for Dracula. Miller, Elizabeth. Email about Emily Gerard to Isobel Grundy. |
Literary responses | Charlotte Yonge | E. M. Delafield
writes that during the 1940s CY
retained wide popularity: that the London Library
's copies of her books were often checked out by readers, and that when Delafield wrote to the Times... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Julia Strachey | Frances Partridge
observes that Strachey began to write these memoirs [q]uite late in her life, probably in her sixties. Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown. 12 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie
, Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Penelope Fitzgerald | It took PF
two years, working in the London Library
, to translate into English the actual correspondence of Novalis. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Pamela Frankau | This, she said, was a commission she could not turn down since as usual she needed the money. She found the research assignment alarming, and spent long, unhappy days at the London Library
. Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann. 118 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Marie Belloc Lowndes | She planned but never completed a biography of the eighteenth-century French letter-writer Julie de Lespinasse
. In May 1940 she was researching in the London Library
for this book. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus. 199 |
Occupation | Marina Warner | MW
has given her time in many public capacities. She was a Member of the Advisory Board of the Royal Mint
(1986-1993); a Member of the Committee of Management of the National Council for One-Parent Families |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | VW
refused E. M. Forster
's request for permission to nominate her to the Committee of the London Library
, because of the library's policy against women members (a policy instituted by her father, Leslie Stephen
). Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press. 2: 224 Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 216 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 663 |
Occupation | George Meredith | GM
received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII
and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature
. In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson
as president of... |
Reception | Isabella Bird | This is one of the books that Bram Stoker
drew on for writing Dracula.The copy he used and annotated is now in the London Library
. “Latest News, The Books that Made Dracula”. The London Library. |
Reception | Sarah Grand | At her death, SG
left all her manuscripts, copyrights, and published works to her step-granddaughter, Elizabeth Genevieve Bernadine Crawford Haldane McFall
, daughter of Haldane McFall
. Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press. 334-5, 100 |
Textual Production | Dervla Murphy | DM
published her first book, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, which characteristically combines autobiography and travel writing. Dated from the London Library
acquisition stamp. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1979 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. |
Textual Production | Dervla Murphy | DM
published Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys. Dated from date stamp in the London Library
copy. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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