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Employer | 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 |
Textual Features | Amelia B. Edwards | ABE
seizes the attention of her audience from her first paragraph with her claim that to the surprise of scholars, ancient Egyptian woman turns out to have been always free, respected, and in the full... |
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... |
Publishing | Mary Delany | She began using the new technique in 1772. The idea of the collection dates from 1774, but she included in it a few representations made before that. She titled the volumes Plants copied after Nature... |
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 |
Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they... |
Reception | Anne Damer | AD
's art and her gender made her a kind of tourist attraction. She complained of being teazed and tired to death with the number of persons coming to see her work, and making crass... |
Publishing | Louisa Stuart Costello | She had been working on these translations for some years. This handsome work was (in the words of the old Dictionary of National Biography) enriched with curious illustrations laboriously executed by hand, by... |
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. |
Publishing | Maria Callcott | She made some editorial changes, for publication, to all her South American writings done while she was actually there, and resolved to omit all quotation from private letters or conversation, though her editor says she... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand... |
Friends, Associates | Clementina Black | During the 1880s CB
studied privately at the library of the British Museum
. At this time, |
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 |
Textual Production | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | BBBD
was a conscientious and entertaining letter-writer with a large circle of correspondents. The Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
holds a collection of her correspondence from the 1840s with Frances Parker, Countess of Morley |
Occupation | Anna Atkins | AA
enjoyed unusual acceptance into traditionally masculine circles including learned societies, as a result of her father's involvement in (especially) the British Museum
and the Royal Society
. She became a pioneer in the field... |
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