“Latest News, The Books that Made Dracula”. The London Library.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Isabella Bird | 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
. |
Textual Production | Margiad Evans | Margiad Evans
published her second autobiographical volume, A Ray of Darkness, in which she writes about her experience with epilepsy. Dated from the London Library
acquisition stamp. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (19 March 1958): 13 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Penelope Fitzgerald | It took PF
two years, working in the London Library
, to translate into English the actual correspondence of Novalis. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Pamela Frankau | 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
. Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann. 118 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | Scholar Elizabeth Miller
discovered that Bram Stoker
's own notes identify EG
's Transylvanian Superstitions as a significant source for Dracula. Miller, Elizabeth. Email about Emily Gerard to Isobel Grundy. |
Reception | Sarah Grand | 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
. Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press. 334-5, 100 |
Textual Production | Violet Hunt | VH
kept diaries between 1876 and 1939. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster. 9 |
Textual Production | Mary Ann Kelty | 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... |
Textual Production | Doris Lessing | DL
published her second Canopus in Argus novel, The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five (as Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three). The London Library
copy bears a datestamp for 23 May 1980. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Marie Belloc Lowndes | 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. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus. 199 |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | 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... |
Occupation | George Meredith | 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... |
Textual Production | Dervla Murphy | DM
published her first book, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, which characteristically combines autobiography and travel writing. Dated from the London Library
acquisition stamp. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1979 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. |
Textual Production | Dervla Murphy | DM
published Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys. Dated from date stamp in the London Library
copy. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
death | May Sinclair | She was cremated after her funeral on 18 November at the chapel in Golders Green Cemetery. Her ashes were buried in Hampstead churchyard. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 155 |
Timeline
3 May 1841: The London Library, established by Thomas...
National or international item
3 May 1841
The London Library
, established by Thomas Carlyle
with Harriet Martineau
, Dickens
, Thackeray
, and others, first opened its doors.
May 1978: Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern...
Women writers item
May 1978
Virago Press
issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.
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