London Library

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 .

Margiad Evans published her second autobiographical volume, A Ray of Darkness, in which she writes about her experience with epilepsy.

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 .

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...

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...

DL published her second Canopus in Argus novel, The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five (as Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three).

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.

The essays include prose, verse, and a number of pastiches of other writers. Two about Reading describe the London Library and the British Museum Reading Room . Others describe London literary life, or demonstrate Macaulay's...

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...

DM published her first book, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, which characteristically combines autobiography and travel writing.

DM published Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys.

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...