Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
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Author summary | Mary Howitt | Between them, Mary Howitt
and her husband William
wrote and published over 180 books. Hers alone, at her death, occupied forty pages of the British Museum
printed catalogue. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 1, 261 |
Author summary | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Strickland | ES
published her earliest children's book under her name, though her periodical editing was anonymous. But although a number of women writers in various generations have chosen anonymity or obscurity, she is extraordinary in seeking... |
Author summary | Margaret Roberts | |
Occupation | Karl Marx | There he continued to write, supporting his family with a small income earned mostly from periodical publications, although the wealthier Engels often gave him financial assistance. In London, KM
researched politics, history, and economics... |
Occupation | Edna Lyall | One reason for her year in London was her need, as a writer, to use the collections at the British Museum
(now the British Library). Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co. 34 |
Occupation | A. E. Housman | AEH
, who had been working as a clerk at the Patent Office
and pursuing his scholarly interests in his own time at the British Museum
, was offered a Chair in Latin at University College, London
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Elizabeth Jenkins | This school, founded in 1898 and still flourishing in the twenty-first century, was unusual among fee-paying schools in its progressive tone and in being co-educational. The King Alfred School. http://www.kingalfred.org.uk/index.html. |
Occupation | Catharine Macaulay | She worked regularly in the British Museum
(on those resources which are now devolved to the British Library
). |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | VW
broadcast again, on her own, in 1937. Part of her broadcast (a reading of her essay Craftsmanship) is in the National Sound Archive of the British Library
(M7060). The only extant recording of... |
Occupation | Anne Ridler | Anne Bradby (later AR
) put in several years of voluntary work at the Time and Talents Settlement
at Bermondsey, doing little plays and dances and hymns with children from poor homes. She was... |
Occupation | Philip Larkin | From the 1960s PL
became a committee-man and public intellectual. He rendered service in various ways to his profession of librarianship. For the Arts Council of Great Britain
he served on the literature panel, and... |
Occupation | Buchi Emecheta | BE
, needing money to support herself and her children, worked as a library officer in the British Museum
(where the British Library
was then housed) in London. Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research. 66 Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann. 32 |
Occupation | Coventry Patmore | With help from his friends Adelaide Procter
and Richard Monckton Milnes
, CP
was taken on as a supernumerary assistant in the department of printed books at the British Museum
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 35 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Charlotte Guest | From the time of her marriage Lady CG
took a keen interest in Welsh culture. When attention to her first baby left her short of leisure time, her Welsh studies took priority while Persian lapsed... |
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