Victoria and Albert Museum

AS contributed to this project a short story entitled A & V at the V & A, later published in Road Stories. The story appeared in the exhibition alongside installations, street performance, a...

UTacquired a reputation as a child prodigy at the Victoria and Albert Museum , where she began taking art classes at seven years of age.

JJ 's eldest child, her daughter Barbara , remained unmarried. She developed her literary ability in poetry as well as in familiar letters, and in 1776 won a prize for poems submitted to Lady Miller

While in India CN contracted a serious fever, which kept [her] a prisoner for seven weeks. She had been ill before this, and had been barred from scientific studies for some weeks by a...

Lady CG enjoyed cultured activities like the theatre and the opera throughout her life. Reading Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë in December 1850 she thought it singular . . . written with force but coarseness, and not of...

In summer 1939 she had acquired a ticket for the Victoria and Albert Museum reading room, a spacious and scholarly working environment which was quite new to her and which she loved. Ostensibly working...

She began making scientific drawings out of interest: her renderings of plant and animal life are painstakingly, professionally accurate, except when she chose to make them whimsically anthropomorphic. The Victoria and Albert Museum holds the...

From these tours she moved on to lecturing at the South Kensington Museum until about 1894. Her audiences were comprised mostly of middle- and upper-class women, and she spoke of the benefits of intellectual...

The style of these poems, said one reviewer, is vintage RP : dynamic, baroque and jam-packed full of neocultural reference. Padel often writes about animals (sometimes in exotic wild places, often wild animals in captivity)...

It appeared before Fox Talbot 's The Pencil of Nature, 1844-6, which does not therefore, technically, deserve being called, as it sometimes is, the first photobook. But his work, unlike Atkins's, was commercially...

FK 's papers are at the New York Public Library , the Harvard College Library, Butler Library at Columbia University , Boston Public Library , the British Library , and the Victoria and Albert Museum .

Some of SC 's letters remain at Gloucestershire Record Office , in the Bodleian Library , and among Richardson's correspondence in the Victoria and Albert Museum . Her surviving letters to John Wesley are printed...

The Forster Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum holds one transcribed and three autograph letters from JC (one of them misidentified as being by Edward Moore ).

MS exhibited her photography and mixed media work in Britain, Ireland, Germany, South Africa, and North America. The public collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The City Art Centre

Her former publisher, the firm of Cadell , was just passing to a new generation. Both Thomas Cadells , father and son , and William Davies (partner of the latter) found Desmond too revolutionary: it...