British Museum

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...

In crediting to herself the collection rather than the editing, of this material, for which she had done substantial work in the British Museum , she perhaps sold herself short, for her preface makes it...

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...

In Some Emotions and a Moral characters are beset by unhappy loves and ill-advised marriages. Cynthia rejects the writer Godfrey Provence because he is an artist, and marries instead the more manageable Edward, who dies...

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...

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...

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...

The month of PF 's family biography also saw her first novel, The Golden Child, a detective story centred on the British Museum during the hugely popular Tutankhamun Exhibition which opened on 29 March...

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...

In preparing the book, AG consulted nineteenth-century editions of Middle Irish texts at the British Museum , the National Library in Dublin , and the Royal Irish Academy . From these, she aimed to produce...

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

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...

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...

LTM published a volume of oriental short stories entitled Under the Dragon Throne in collaboration with Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas , Keeper of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts at the British Museum .

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...