British Museum

Virginia was keen to regain access to the amenities of London—music, the British Museum , social life (her delight in parties, she wrote, was a piece of jewellery I inherit from my mother)

The stories begin with Jack and the Beanstalk and include Bluebeard and Cinderella. EPW is not over-respectful of her sources. In her Jack and the Beanstalk Mrs Jones (the giant's wife) donates her late...

Between the ages of seventy and eighty, JW 's health began to fail. In addition to her lifelong deafness, she began to suffer from slowly encroaching blindness. She also suffered from cancer, which was removed...

The relevant clause in his will states: I leave all my manuscripts to Harriet Shaw Weaver and direct that she have sole decision in all literary matters relating to my writings published and unpublished.

SW 's authorship of this work was not known in her lifetime. This was a member of a very new genre: it represented only the third or fourth guidebook in English about a non-resort location...

MW has addressed the current shift in the aims and conditions of British universities, first in a Diary column for the London Review of Books in September 2014 (in which she tells the story of...

She requested that after she died, everything that might threaten the eyes and reason of the biographer be destroyed.Liebet , the daughter she chose as executor of her will, complied with this in...

She dedicated the novel to her friend Alice Herbert (wife of Jack Herbert , Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum ), who introduced Evelyn Underhill to the treasure trove of medieval manuscripts in his keeping.

After she was widowed, ET's mother moved from near London (in Surrey) to the capital itself: Wyans Court, just off Great Russell Street in Bloomsbury (near the original British Museum ). They stayed...

Daviot was sued for plagiarism by Gillian Oliver , the author of a novel about Richard II titled The Broomscod Collar (1930). The case was settled out of court, and the arbitrator judged that the...

Elizabeth and AS were studying history and palaeography (early handwriting) in the British Museum .

Elizabeth and AS 's historical studies in the British Museum produced an edition of the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, to which they were able to bring much unpublished material.

NS 's other writing for children included plays (a collected volume, The Children's Matinee, 1934) and a remarkable life of The Boy Pharaoh, Tutankhamen for young readers, published in 1972 to coincide with the...

She was later a freelance research student at both the Public Record Office and the British Museum .

On 28 October 1905 CS met fellow Shakespearean scholar Charles William Wallace at the British Museum . She described the meeting as a little romantic episode with a tall, handsome dreamy looking, proud, touchy American.