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Her letters, on the evidence of those included in Dorothea Mozley 's Newman Family Letters (published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1962), are highly intelligent and entertaining. As a girl she rattles...

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...

After the two were married, he kept the letters in his cabinet. They descended in the family until sold to the British Museum in 1891 (except a few which have been lost). Only a few...

Her work on India was the result of many months' research at the British Museum ; she never actually visited India.

She was still there in early May 1842, when Robert suffered a stroke and died, the day before they were to leave for home. It took her nearly two years to settle his estate...

This novel takes a darker view of relationships than most of Pym's earlier works, depicting suburbia as inhabited by misfits and eccentric loners, all struggling, mostly in vain, for affection and happiness. The...

With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum 's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere...

While in Germany, she learned German and developed an appreciation of German arts which informs her later writings. (She also taught herself Russian while living with her sister in the Baltics.) Staying in...

While ER was writing Fellowship she was also collaborating with Harriet Grote on an article calling for reforms to the British Museum . Their article appeared anonymously in the January 1868 Quarterly Review.

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 .

After finishing her degree course at Girton College , Dora Black (later Russell ) studied French, and eighteenth-century French literature in particular, at University College, London . She did her work mainly in the British Museum

The full title was An Incorruptible Irishman, Being an account of Chief Justice Charles Kendal Bushe , and of his wife, Nancy Crampton, and their times, 1767-1843. ES set out in November 1930 to...

After the war, MS got an editorial job on the Argentor, the quarterly trade magazine of the National Jewellers' Association . The work involved writing, editing, proof-reading, and research on jewellery at the College of Heralds

In Baghdad she studied Persian, Arabic, the Koran, and other aspects of Islamic culture, and once back from this expedition she spent much time studying the history of Middle Eastern cults at the British Museum .

FS worked as a research assistant to Margaret Jourdain at the British Museum .