Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
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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... |
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 |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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... |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | The essays include prose, verse, and a number of pastiches of other writers. Two about Reading describe the London Library
and the British Museum Reading Room
. Others describe London literary life, or demonstrate Macaulay's... |
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 |
Textual Production | Doris Lessing | DL
published her second Canopus in Argus novel, The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five (as Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three). The London Library
copy bears a datestamp for 23 May 1980. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Mary Ann Kelty | MAK
dated the preface to her volume of essays Loneliness and Leisure: A Record of the Thoughts and Feelings of Advanced Life, called after the motives that caused her to write on in her... |
Textual Production | Violet Hunt | VH
kept diaries between 1876 and 1939. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster. 9 |
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 |
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