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She was cremated after her funeral on 18 November at the chapel in Golders Green Cemetery. Her ashes were buried in Hampstead churchyard. In a will made almost thirty years before she died...

Scholar Elizabeth Miller discovered that Bram Stoker 's own notes identify EG 's Transylvanian Superstitions as a significant source for Dracula. Copies of the Nineteenth Century essay and The Land Beyond the Forest which...

E. M. Delafield writes that during the 1940s CY retained wide popularity: that the London Library 's copies of her books were often checked out by readers, and that when Delafield wrote to the Times...

She planned but never completed a biography of the eighteenth-century French letter-writer Julie de Lespinasse . In May 1940 she was researching in the London Library for this book.

It took PF two years, working in the London Library , to translate into English the actual correspondence of Novalis.

This, she said, was a commission she could not turn down since as usual she needed the money. She found the research assignment alarming, and spent long, unhappy days at the London Library .

DW 's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie , Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie...

Frances Partridge observes that Strachey began to write these memoirs [q]uite late in her life, probably in her sixties. She worked at them in the London Library , and with the assistance of typists...

GM received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature . In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson as president of...

VW refused E. M. Forster 's request for permission to nominate her to the Committee of the London Library , because of the library's policy against women members (a policy instituted by her father, Leslie Stephen ).

MW has given her time in many public capacities. She was a  Member of the Advisory Board of the Royal Mint (1986-1993); a Member of the Committee of Management of the National Council for One-Parent Families

This is one of the books that Bram Stoker drew on for writing Dracula.The copy he used and annotated is now in the London Library .

At her death, SG left all her manuscripts, copyrights, and published works to her step-granddaughter, Elizabeth Genevieve Bernadine Crawford Haldane McFall , daughter of Haldane McFall .Her letters and papers are now...

VH kept diaries between 1876 and 1939. Often writing in French, she used her diaries to record and explain her perceptions of daily events and experiences; her entries are sometimes rooted in fact but...

MAK dated the preface to her volume of essays Loneliness and Leisure: A Record of the Thoughts and Feelings of Advanced Life, called after the motives that caused her to write on in her...