British Library

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Literary responses Margaret Fell
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...
Literary Setting Christine Brooke-Rose
This novel uses medieval allegory to resolve the linguistic, psychological, and intellectual fragmentation of its heroine, Julia.
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994.
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Much of it is set in the reading room of the British Library (at this date situated...
Literary Setting Virginia Woolf
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...
Literary Setting Sara Maitland
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
The title continues: Including sketches of the state of society in Holland and Germany, in the 17th century.
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of Elizabeth Stuart. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825.
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EOB researched this book in the British Museum Library , where Samuel Carter Hall thought...
Material Conditions of Writing Dorothy Wellesley
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Marjorie Bowen
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Gladys Henrietta Schütze
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 .
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. Emily in Arlington Street. Hodder and Stoughton, 1942.
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Material Conditions of Writing Frances Power Cobbe
In 1849 FPC produced a lengthy manuscript titled An Essay on True Religion Being a reply to the question Why are you a Deist? Critic Sally Mitchell compares it to a competent doctoral thesis.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Material Conditions of Writing Emma Roberts
For this work, published before her first voyage to India, she did research at the British Museum .
Material Conditions of Writing Edna Lyall
After her previous book EL heard about the existence of typewriters, bought one, and learned in three weeks to use it.
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904.
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She put research as well as Suffolk memories into this novel, working on...
Material Conditions of Writing E. Arnot Robertson
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 .
Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, 1982, p. vii - xix.
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Material Conditions of Writing Antonia Fraser
This 70,000-word retelling of Sir Thomas Malory
Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, 24 Aug. 2002, pp. 16-19.
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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
Material Conditions of Writing Penelope Lively
PL did extensive research for this book—she says the British Library was her mainstay.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Grove Press, 2001.
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A reviewer called it part memoir, part social history;
Connolly, Cressida. “So many rooms—but no room for sentiment”. Guardian Weekly, 6–12 Sept. 2001, p. 17.
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yet because of its personal centre PL denies that...
Material Conditions of Writing Maggie Gee
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...

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