British Museum

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Employer Jane Ellen Harrison
JEH began her lecturing career by giving conducted tours of the British Museum 's Greek art collections.
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press.
75-6
Family and Intimate relationships Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
Augustus Le Plongeon , who was in London to study ancient Mayan objects at the British Museum , met Alice Dixon shortly after his arrival.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico.
16-17
Family and Intimate relationships Constance Garnett
CG 's sister Clementina frequently studied at the British Museum and there became acquainted with Richard Garnett , superintendent of the Reading Room. She introduced Constance to Garnett's son Edward , who was a reader...
Family and Intimate relationships A. Mary F. Robinson
AMFR married James Darmesteter after a brief courtship; it was said that she had proposed to him, in August 1887, shortly after their first meeting at the British Museum .
Sources disagree on the date...
Friends, Associates Charlotte Stopes
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.
Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare’s Lives. Clarendon Press.
645
Stopes, Charlotte. Burbage and Shakespeare’s Stage. Alexander Moring.
ix
Friends, Associates Clementina Black
During the 1880s CB studied privately at the library of the British Museum . At this time, Richard Garnett was the superintendent of the Reading Room. She became friends with him and his family, and...
Health Julia Wedgwood
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...
Intertextuality and Influence E. Nesbit
It had previously been serialized from May 1905 to May 1906. Its treatment of ancient Egyptian magic owes a good deal to the information she received from Ernest Wallis Budge , Keeper of Egyptian and...
Intertextuality and Influence Eva Gore-Booth
EGB studied Greek manuscripts of St John's Gospel at the British Museum , and checked her translations against those of earlier Bible scholars. In her chapter Suggestions and Interpetations, she critiques the practices of...
Intertextuality and Influence Dora Carrington
Besides capturing the essences of her models or subjects,
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.
Carrington's work includes appreciations of earlier artists, such as Goya , Renoir , and especially Cézanne , and reflects such further, varied influences as Thomas Bewick
Intertextuality and Influence L. T. Meade
She received advice and encouragement with the actual writing, and help in choosing a title from Richard Garnett (Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum ). This time she knew that if a publisher...
Leisure and Society Anna Letitia Barbauld
She may have seen, exhibited at the British Museum , the wonderful coloured representations of tropical insects and plants by the Dutchwoman Maria Merian .
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
97
Literary responses Mary Delany
In a letter she slighted her own work as my usual presumption of copying beautiful nature.
Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, pp. 203-35.
224
But Horace Walpole , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and William Gilpin , the authority on the picturesque, were...
Material Conditions of Writing Barbara Hofland
BH did research for this novel in the British Museum , with help from a reverend librarian, whom I have the honour to call my friend.
Feminist Companion Archive.
It was later sometimes referred to as Catherine the...
Material Conditions of Writing Daphne Du Maurier
Before writing the novel, DDM employed research assistants in London to send her information from the British Museum and the Public Record Office s. She studied letters, newspapers, and diaries of the period (Clarke's activities...

Timeline

1879: The general public was first granted unrestricted...

Building item

1879

The general public was first granted unrestricted access to the British Museum collections.

1879: Electric lighting was introduced at the library...

Building item

1879

Electric lighting was introduced at the library of the British Museum in London; it was accepted slowly by Britain's other libraries.

1881: Incandescent electric lighting was installed...

Building item

1881

Incandescent electric lighting was installed at the Savoy Theatre, London.

About June 1891: George Gissing published New Grub Street,...

Writing climate item

About June 1891

George Gissing published New Grub Street, a novel portraying the development of writing into a trade and authors into tradesmen.

1 November 1907: The British Museum's reading room reopened...

Building item

1 November 1907

The British Museum 's reading room reopened after being cleaned and redecorated; the dome was embellished with the names of canonical male writers, beginning with Chaucer and ending with Browning .

1911: The collection known as the King's Music...

Writing climate item

1911

The collection known as the King's Music Library was given on permanent loan to the British Museum by King George V .

1933: The British Museum purchased Codex Sinaiticus...

Writing climate item

1933

The British Museum purchased Codex Sinaiticus from the Soviet government for £100,000.

29 March 1972: A major exhibition of ancient Egyptian treasures...

Building item

29 March 1972

A major exhibition of ancient Egyptian treasures associated with the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun opened at the British Museum , to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the treasures on 16 February 1923.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.