British Library

JCM reaped a good deal of praise during her lifetime, but most of it must have been of questionable value to her as a poet. Pope 's To Erinna is typical in casting her as...

This novel uses medieval allegory to resolve the linguistic, psychological, and intellectual fragmentation of its heroine, Julia. Much of it is set in the reading room of the British Library (at this date situated...

SM 's topic here is sexuality in relation to a life vowed to celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church . Her protagonist, Sister Anna, is a missionary nun in Latin America. She is in...

Jacob's Room is often said to be the first of VW 's fictional recreations of her brother Thoby (the others being The Waves and A Sketch of the Past). Hermione Lee calls the work...

In 1849 FPC produced a lengthy manuscript titled An Essay on True Religion Being a reply to the question Why are you a Deist? Critic Sally Mitchell compares it to a competent doctoral thesis.

PL did extensive research for this book—she says the British Library was her mainstay. A reviewer called it part memoir, part social history; yet because of its personal centre PL denies that...

MG says that having been a good girl too long, she chose fiction as an opportunity not to censor her voice to meet the demands of home, or the education system, or boyfriends, not to...

She began work on the Villon book in the British Museum when that had just reopened after the war, and finished it in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It has an introduction by Denis Saurat .

This 70,000-word retelling of Sir Thomas Malory was produced within six weeks, including research at the then British Museum , to fulfil a contract between Weidenfeld and Nicolson and the retail chain Marks and Spencer

She began working on this a little before her collection of children's stories. She was at first intimidated by the idea of doing historical, archival research. Her publisher, Hamilton , encouraged her, and when she...

The title continues: Including sketches of the state of society in Holland and Germany, in the 17th century.EOB researched this book in the British Museum Library , where Samuel Carter Hall thought...

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...

In an author's note GHS regrets being unable to list the books she used for research: Unfortunately, my list of titles was a minor casualty of last year's blitz at the British Museum .

While she was attending the Slade Art School in London, MB became completely discouraged about her prospects as an artist and began to write. At around the age of fourteen she had written a number...

For this work, published before her first voyage to India, she did research at the British Museum .