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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
title-page
EOB researched this book in the British Museum Library , where Samuel Carter Hall thought...
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...
names Charlotte Grace O'Brien
  • BirthName: Charlotte Grace O'Brien
    Crawford, Anne, editor. The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women. Europa Publications, 1983.
    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.

  • Indexed: Charlotte Grace O'Brien
    The British Library , Bodleian Library , and Cambridge University Library all list her as Charlotte Grace O'Brien; all except the Bodleian ascribe earlier work by Charlotte...
names Anne Audland
  • BirthName: Anne
    Scholar Phyllis Mack spells her name Ann, though the catalogues of both the British Library and the Bodleian have Anne.
    Newby
  • Married: Audland; Camm
names Anna Jane Vardill
  • BirthName: Anna Jane Vardill
  • Nickname: Variella
    De Montluzin, Emily Lorraine. Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826. 2007, http://bsuva.org/bsuva/euromag/.
    Variella was also the name of a character in John Till Allingham 's 1805 play The Weathercock, who is described by Peter Cochran as a shape-changing, disguise-addicted girl...
Occupation Charlotte Guest
From the time of her marriage Lady CG took a keen interest in Welsh culture. When attention to her first baby left her short of leisure time, her Welsh studies took priority while Persian lapsed...
Occupation A. E. Housman
AEH , who had been working as a clerk at the Patent Office and pursuing his scholarly interests in his own time at the British Museum , was offered a Chair in Latin at University College, London .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Occupation Coventry Patmore
With help from his friends Adelaide Procter and Richard Monckton Milnes , CP was taken on as a supernumerary assistant in the department of printed books at the British Museum .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Occupation Edna Lyall
One reason for her year in London was her need, as a writer, to use the collections at the British Museum (now the British Library).
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904.
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Occupation Elizabeth Jenkins
This school, founded in 1898 and still flourishing in the twenty-first century, was unusual among fee-paying schools in its progressive tone and in being co-educational.
The King Alfred School. http://www.kingalfred.org.uk/index.html.
EJ found the headmistress, Violet Hyett , one of the...
Occupation Karl Marx
There he continued to write, supporting his family with a small income earned mostly from periodical publications, although the wealthier Engels often gave him financial assistance. In London, KM researched politics, history, and economics...
Occupation Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby (later AR ) put in several years of voluntary work at the Time and Talents Settlement at Bermondsey, doing little plays and dances and hymns with children from poor homes. She was...
Occupation Virginia Woolf
VW broadcast again, on her own, in 1937. Part of her broadcast (a reading of her essay Craftsmanship) is in the National Sound Archive of the British Library (M7060). The only extant recording of...
Occupation Philip Larkin
From the 1960s PL became a committee-man and public intellectual. He rendered service in various ways to his profession of librarianship. For the Arts Council of Great Britain he served on the literature panel, and...
Occupation Catharine Macaulay
She worked regularly in the British Museum (on those resources which are now devolved to the British Library ).

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