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Material Conditions of Writing | Cecily Mackworth | She began work on the Villon book in the British Museum
when that had just reopened after the war, and finished it in the Bibliothèque Nationale
in Paris. It has an introduction by Denis Saurat
. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Angela Thirkell | 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... |
names | Elisabeth Wast | The unexplained tendency of reference sources to call her Elizabeth West instead of Elisabeth Wast (the name printed on the title-page of her book in its first edition) has caused that edition, which is not... |
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
. |
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. 35 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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. |
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 | 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. 34 |
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 | Buchi Emecheta | BE
, needing money to support herself and her children, worked as a library officer in the British Museum
(where the British Library
was then housed) in London. Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research. 66 Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann. 32 |
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 | Catharine Macaulay | She worked regularly in the British Museum
(on those resources which are now devolved to the British Library
). |
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... |
Author summary | Mary Howitt | Between them, Mary Howitt
and her husband William
wrote and published over 180 books. Hers alone, at her death, occupied forty pages of the British Museum
printed catalogue. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 1, 261 |
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