Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Florence Farr | FF
was fascinated by the occult and became immersed in the society. She took her spiritual studies very seriously, and spent a great deal of time in the British Museum reading room. After an internal... |
| death | Anna Brownell Jameson | The onset of her final illness followed on long hours of work in the British Museum
, where she was assembling the fifth volume of Sacred and Legendary Art, and a walk home in a snowstorm. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997. 7 |
| Dedications | Evelyn Underhill | She dedicated the novel to her friend Alice Herbert
(wife of Jack Herbert
, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum
), who introduced Evelyn Underhill to the treasure trove of medieval manuscripts in his keeping. Greene, Dana. Evelyn Underhill: Artist of the Infinite Life. Crossroad, 1990. 15 Underhill, Evelyn. The Grey World. William Heinemann, 1904. prelims |
| Education | Dora Russell | After finishing her degree course at Girton College
, Dora Black
(later Russell
) studied French, and eighteenth-century French literature in particular, at University College, London
. She did her work mainly in the British Museum |
| Education | Elizabeth Rigby | While in Germany, she learned German and developed an appreciation of German arts which informs her later writings. (She also taught herself Russian while living with her sister in the Baltics.) Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961. 6 |
| Education | Mary Kingsley | MK
began to study under Albert Karl Günther
, Keeper of the Zoological Department at the British Museum
and specialist in the study of fish and reptiles. Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin, 1986. 95-6 |
| Education | Agnes Strickland | Elizabeth
and AS
were studying history and palaeography (early handwriting) in the British Museum
. 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, 1990. |
| Education | Eliza Lynn Linton | Eliza Lynn spent her first year in London reading in the British Museum
and writing. |
| Education | Charlotte Stopes | She was later a freelance research student at both the Public Record Office
and the British Museum
. Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2024, Many volumes. |
| Education | Margaret Gatty | Margaret's father's house was crammed with books, selected by taste not by method. He seems to have felt it not only natural but satisfactory when the little girls pursued their own studies among the books... |
| Education | Freya Stark | In Baghdad she studied Persian, Arabic, the Koran, and other aspects of Islamic culture, and once back from this expedition she spent much time studying the history of Middle Eastern cults at the British Museum
. |
| Education | Jane Ellen Harrison | In LondonJEH
was free to explore those aspects of Greek culture not covered by her degree, especially Greek art. Briggs, Julia. “The Wives of Herr Bear”. London Review of Books, 21 Sept. 2000, pp. 24-5. 24 |
| Education | John Oliver Hobbes | She then attended a number of schools: a boarding establishment at Newbury in Berkshire between 1876 and 1877 (run by the Misses Godwin), a school in Paris from 1880 to 1881 (she was fluent in... |
| Employer | Mary Kingsley | For Kingsley's voyage the following year on behalf of the British Museum
, Günther
commissioned her to collect freshwater fish from the region between the Niger and Congo rivers, and he arranged for her to... |
| Employer | Buchi Emecheta | BE
, needing money to support herself and her children, worked as a library officer in the British Museum
(where the British Library
was then housed) in London. Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research, 1991. 66 Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann, 1994. 32 |
Timeline
11 May 868: The earliest printed book extant which bears...
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11 May 868
The earliest printed book extant which bears a date, a classic Buddhist text entitled The Diamond Sutra, was printed in China on this day, as a tribute to both his parents from a man...
1705: The German-born entomologist Maria Sibilla...
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1705
The German-born entomologist Maria Sibilla Merian
(1647-1717) published at Amsterdam her handsome folio titled in Latin Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium and illustrated by herself.
Her second name is variously spelled. The British Library Catalogue records Sibylla...
5 April 1753: The British Parliament paid the daughters...
National or international item
5 April 1753
The British Parliament paid the daughters of the late Sir Hans Sloane
£20,000 for his scientific collections. This transaction was previously laid out by Sloane's will from 20 July 1749.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
171
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
15 January 1759: The first reading room of the British Museum...
National or international item
15 January 1759
The first reading room of the British Museum
was opened.
Caygill, Marjorie. The Story of the British Museum. British Museum Publications, 1981.
4, 6
Wilson, David M. The British Museum: Purpose and Politics. British Museum Publications, 1989.
13-14
Barwick, George. The Reading Room of the British Museum. Ernest Benn, 1929.
34
15 January 1759: The British Museum (including what had formerly...
Building item
15 January 1759
The British Museum
(including what had formerly been known as the King's Library
), established six years earlier, was first opened to the public.
Gray, Thomas, and Herbert Willmarth Starr. Correspondence. Editors Toynbee, Paget and Leonard Whibley, Clarendon Press, 1971, 3 vols.
2: 620 and n14
23 August 1799: Napoleon left his command in Egypt and headed...
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23 August 1799
Napoleon
left his command in Egypt and headed for Paris, leaving behind him most of the huge haul of the country's artefacts which had already been packed for shipping to France.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xv
Pagden, Anthony. “C is for Colonies”. London Review of Books, 11 May 2006, pp. 30-1.
31
1801: Thomas Bruce, Seventh Earl of Elgin, received...
Building item
1801
Thomas Bruce
, Seventh Earl of Elgin, received permission to draw and make casts from statues at the Parthenon in Athens.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
131-2
1802: The Rosetta stone, whose three-fold inscription...
Building item
1802
The Rosetta stone, whose three-fold inscription offered the opportunity of learning to decode ancient Egyptian, was presented to the British Museum
after being captured in the Egyptian campaign the previous year.
James, Thomas Garnet Henry. “Secrets of the stone deciphered”. Guardian Weekly, 25–31 Oct. 2001, p. 16.
16
15 February 1816: Lord Elgin petitioned the House of Commons:...
National or international item
15 February 1816
Lord Elgin
petitioned the House of Commons
: he wanted to compel the British Museum
to buy his collection of ancient Greek artefacts, the Elgin Marbles (especially the famous frieze from the Parthenon in Athens).
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
282-6
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
132
1818: A Select Committee of the House of Commons...
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1818
A Select Committee of the House of Commons
recommended that the eleven free copies of books which publishers were currently obliged to provide for the Copyright Libraries be limited to a single copy for the...
1825: Alexander Dyce, then a twenty-seven-year-old...
Women writers item
1825
Alexander Dyce
, then a twenty-seven-year-old reluctant clergyman, published his Specimens of British Poetesses, a project in rediscovering women's literary history.
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
210-11
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 81
Salzman, Paul. “How Alexander Dyce Assembled Specimens of British Poetesses: A Key Moment in the Transmission of Early Modern Women’s Writing”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
26
, No. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 88-105. 88-9, 91, 95-6, 97, 98, 101
1856: Richard Owen, a rival of Darwin and Huxley,...
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1856
Richard Owen
, a rival of Darwin
and Huxley
, was appointed superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum
.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
410
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
100
2 May 1857: A grand dome designed by Panizzi was opened...
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2 May 1857
A grand dome designed by Panizzi
was opened in what had been the central courtyard of the British Museum
.
Barwick, George. The Reading Room of the British Museum. Ernest Benn, 1929.
65, 71, 88, 102, 104-5, 136, 139
Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
69
1865: The Elgin Marbles were repaired and rearranged...
Building item
1865
The Elgin Marbles were repaired and rearranged at the British Museum.
Spencer, Robin. The Aesthetic Movement: Theory and Practice. Studio Vista, 1972.
31
1869: The British Museum opened its mineral collection...
National or international item
1869
The British Museum
opened its mineral collection to the public.
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
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Texts
Hayden, Ruth. Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers. British Museum, 1986.