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Though at least partly resident in Edinburgh, SF did not mingle with the literary set known as the Edinburgh Bluestockings. Apart from her large circle of siblings and in-laws, her closest friends were Charlotte Clavering

AL became a member of a circle of reforming or socialist women who were mostly regulars in the ladies' lunch room at the British Museum .

Beatrice Potter (the future Beatrice Webb) became a friend of Amy Levy during the 1880s through their shared use of the ladies' lunch room at the British Museum , where a group developed of young...

Probably through sisters Kate Potter Courtney (whose house Harkness often stayed at) and Beatrice Potter (later Webb) , MH began to associate with the intellectuals who frequented the Reading Room of the British Museum ...

Among the households where she lived were those of Elizabeth Carter (who sometimes read her work and discussed it with her) and of Edward Cave (the proprietor of the Gentleman's Magazine). It was Carter...

In 1776 the future AML recorded meeting the Corsican patriot Paoli and Dr Johnson ye Great. After her marriage her own and her husband's work brought her into contact with the cultured elite of London...

In her pamphlet dated 11 April 1699, AD wrote that, through Mercy, I can walk the Streets to visit the Sick, and my Friends and Relations also, and can see without Spectacles still.

By undertaking archival work in seventeenth-century pamphlets, CM set out to ensure that her history should surpass that of Hume (who was generally regarded as a Tory historian, though he was ambivalent about this label)...

Dedicated by permission to William Gladstone , The Life of Josiah Wedgwood provides a full history of pottery in Britain, beginning with the Celts and Romans. As a portrait of a captain of industry it...

Someone addressed a poem of compliment to the child LJC (now Harleian MS 4955, ff, 86-7 in the British Library ).

Lady CG enjoyed cultured activities like the theatre and the opera throughout her life. Reading Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë in December 1850 she thought it singular . . . written with force but coarseness, and not of...

This style (moderate as it is by the standards of MF 's own community) provoked tetchiness in a former owner of the copy now in the British Library (G14297), who wrote a long and indignant...

JCM reaped a good deal of praise during her lifetime, but most of it must have been of questionable value to her as a poet. Pope 's To Erinna is typical in casting her as...

An apparently contemporary hand wrote in the British Library copy: Rubbish.

Alan Palmer , in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Duberly, remarks on her ready pen, eyes perceptive to detail, youthful self-confidence, and an incisive style softened by candid pathos.He finds her...