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Occupation | Marie Stopes | She also taught at London University, and became a Fellow of University College, London
, in 1910. At this stage her research focussed on paleobotany, the study of fossil plants. (Her work in the field... |
Occupation | Freya Stark | FS
worked as a research assistant to Margaret Jourdain
at the British Museum
. Izzard, Molly. Freya Stark: A Biography. Hodder and Stoughton. 269 |
Education | Freya Stark | 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
. |
Occupation | Muriel Spark | 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 |
Textual Production | Edith Somerville | 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... |
Education | Dora Russell | 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 |
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... |
Education | Elizabeth Rigby | 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.) Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 6 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Rigby | 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. Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 1: 750 |
politics | Dorothy Richardson | 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... |
Textual Features | Barbara Pym | This novel takes a darker view of relationships than most of Pym's earlier works, depicting suburbia as inhabited by misfits and eccentric loners, Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 98 Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 98-9 |
Travel | Jane Porter | She was still there in early May 1842, when Robert suffered a stroke and died, the day before they were to leave for home. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 112-13 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Sylvia Pankhurst | Her work on India was the result of many months' research at the British Museum
; she never actually visited India. Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 178 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Osborne | 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... |
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... |
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