British Library

In her early teens, MB began earning money as a research assistant at the British Museum , a job which encouraged her interest in historical research and her hope for a career in writing. She...

LH 's eldest maternal uncle, Harcourt Griffin , was a composer, and a number of his pieces are held by the British Library . One of these, Weep not for the Dead, features words...

Elizabeth Carter was Lady Spencer's mentor on religion and reassured her that her high social station made it necessary, even meritorious, to be to a large extent worldly. The Althorp MSS at the British Library

FK 's mother was born Frances (or Fanny) Warne . She was English, the eldest of a large family whose father worked in the shipyards at Stockton-on-Tees and whose mother was felt to have married...

ESG 's husband having decreed her banishment to a convent in France, she set off in the snow on Christmas Eve.

He had first met Florence nearly nine years earlier, and she had volunteered, since she lived near London, to look up references for him at the British Museum . Five years after that she had...

Without any knowledge about sexuality, MS was married in Montreal to Canadian botanist Reginald Ruggles Gates ; he turned out to be impotent.

CBR married Polish poet and novelist Jerzy Pietrkiewicz (later Peterkiewicz), whom she had met at the British Library .

MS took some time to realise there was something wrong with her marriage; reading in the British Museum enlightened her. She left Gates in 1914, and obtained an annulment of the marriage for non-consummation in...

At fourteen BB fell seriously in love with a German prisoner of war, Harry Arno Franz , who was ten years older. They were constantly together over the summer of 1947, though they were not...

Henry Locke was a half-brother of the younger Rose Hickman, later Throckmorton , who at the age of eighty-four wrote for her children a brief but vivid account of her life up to the time...

Aldington was about six years younger than HD; they were introduced to one another by Pound in early 1912, and at first their courtship was largely conducted in his presence, as the three studied and...

He was born Samuel Pipe, and assumed the name Wolferstan in connection with an inheritance; as well as his formidable estate at Statfold near Tamworth, he had another at Pipe near Lichfield. A...

They maintained a friendship until he died in January 1928. After his death, Hardy's executors gave CM a British Museum Reading Room slip on which he had copied her poem Fin de Fête.

JEC 's friends in London included the scholar Richard Garnett (superintendent of the British Museum reading room and future father-in-law of another translator, Constance Garnett ). They met in 1877 or 1878, and Richard Garnett...