British Library

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...

SM 's topic here is sexuality in relation to a life vowed to celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church . Her protagonist, Sister Anna, is a missionary nun in Latin America. She is in...

This novel uses medieval allegory to resolve the linguistic, psychological, and intellectual fragmentation of its heroine, Julia. Much of it is set in the reading room of the British Library (at this date situated...

Jacob's Room is often said to be the first of VW 's fictional recreations of her brother Thoby (the others being The Waves and A Sketch of the Past). Hermione Lee calls the work...

In an author's note GHS regrets being unable to list the books she used for research: Unfortunately, my list of titles was a minor casualty of last year's blitz at the British Museum .

For this work, published before her first voyage to India, she did research at the British Museum .

EAR 's novel Four Frightened People was set more entirely than her previous one in Malaya (where the author had never been). It relied on her research at the British Museum .

After her previous book EL heard about the existence of typewriters, bought one, and learned in three weeks to use it. She put research as well as Suffolk memories into this novel, working on...

This 70,000-word retelling of Sir Thomas Malory was produced within six weeks, including research at the then British Museum , to fulfil a contract between Weidenfeld and Nicolson and the retail chain Marks and Spencer

She began working on this a little before her collection of children's stories. She was at first intimidated by the idea of doing historical, archival research. Her publisher, Hamilton , encouraged her, and when she...

PL did extensive research for this book—she says the British Library was her mainstay. A reviewer called it part memoir, part social history; yet because of its personal centre PL denies that...

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...

The title continues: Including sketches of the state of society in Holland and Germany, in the 17th century.EOB researched this book in the British Museum Library , where Samuel Carter Hall thought...

While she was attending the Slade Art School in London, MB became completely discouraged about her prospects as an artist and began to write. At around the age of fourteen she had written a number...

MG says that having been a good girl too long, she chose fiction as an opportunity not to censor her voice to meet the demands of home, or the education system, or boyfriends, not to...