Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933.
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Anthologization | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
's very popular A Funeral Hymn (two 8-line stanzas, beginning In this World of Sin and Sorrow, ending Let thy gracious Will be done) Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933. 103 |
Anthologization | Winefrid Thimelby | She wrote to her sister Katherine Aston
, and after Katherine's death continued the correspondence with warmly intimate letters to her brother-in-law Herbert Aston
. Nuns were not officially allowed to maintain non-religious correspondences, but... |
Birth | Anne Docwra | In her pamphlet dated 11 April 1699, AD
said she was past her seventy-fifth birthday. The pamphlet also bears dates which were apparently less relevant dates in October and November of the same year. This... |
death | Arabella Shore | She left her sister Emily
's manuscript diary to the British Museum
(that part of it which is now the British Library
) but her will never reached probate and the papers never reached the depository. Gates, Barbara T., and Margaret Emily Shore. “Self-writing as Legacy: The Journal of Emily ShoreJournal of Emily Shore: Revised and Expanded, 2006. |
death | Elizabeth Tollet | She was buried on 11 February in the church there, where her monument (before it was obliterated by the feet of the passing congregation) recorded her poems in various languages . . . adorned with... |
Dedications | Lady Mary Walker | LMW
dedicates her second book to a friend she has known for twelve years (identified in a manuscript note in the British Library
copy, shelfmark C 175 l. 4, as Lady Marchmont
). Lady Marchmont... |
Dedications | Charlotte Lennox | Again Johnson supplied her with a dedication (to the future George III
; a sheet of George's notes on the plays is bound into his presentation copy, now in the British Library
). The work... |
Education | L. T. Meade | As soon as LTM
reached London she began to study daily at the British Museum
. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896. 225 |
Education | Helen Waddell | HW
enrolled as a postgraduate student at Somerville College, Oxford
, in November 1920, but never finished either the thesis or the residence requirements for her D.Phil. She developed at this stage an over-riding interest... |
Education | Elizabeth Strickland | To train herself as a historian, ES
plunged enthusiastically into working in the British Museum
at history itself and also the study of early handwriting (palaeography), which she would need for deciphering original sources. 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, 1990. |
Education | Marjorie Bowen | She also started drawing, despite having no money for paints or canvases, and gained permission to copy at the National Gallery
and the British Museum
. There, she learned the techniques of oil painting and... |
Education | Flora Klickmann | FK
had a British Museum
reading-room ticket at seventeen: a newspaper article on the reading room mentioned (though not by name) the charming sight she and her mother made as they studied there—apparently in contrast... |
Education | Christine Brooke-Rose | After being demobbed from her wartime position at Bletchley she had spent some time reading daily in the British Library
(then the British Museum reading room) to prepare for the entrance exams to Somerville. Brooke-Rose, Christine. Remake. Carcanet, 1996. 137 |
Education | Emma Roberts | Her memoirist says her thirst for letters was unquenchable, and the extent of her reading proves that her early years must have been years of application. Unsigned, and Emma Roberts. “Memoir”. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay, W. H. Allen, 1841, p. xi - xxviii. xiv |
Employer | Michèle Roberts | The first year of her course gave her a position as Library Scholar in the Department of Printed Books at the then British Museum
. She worked on the enquiry desk, then at cataloguing. She... |