British Museum

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.

AMFR married James Darmesteter after a brief courtship; it was said that she had proposed to him, in August 1887, shortly after their first meeting at the British Museum .

Augustus Le Plongeon , who was in London to study ancient Mayan objects at the British Museum , met Alice Dixon shortly after his arrival.

CG 's sister Clementina frequently studied at the British Museum and there became acquainted with Richard Garnett , superintendent of the Reading Room. She introduced Constance to Garnett's son Edward , who was a reader...

During the 1880s CB studied privately at the library of the British Museum . At this time, Richard Garnett was the superintendent of the Reading Room. She became friends with him and his family, and...

On 28 October 1905 CS met fellow Shakespearean scholar Charles William Wallace at the British Museum . She described the meeting as a little romantic episode with a tall, handsome dreamy looking, proud, touchy American.

Between the ages of seventy and eighty, JW 's health began to fail. In addition to her lifelong deafness, she began to suffer from slowly encroaching blindness. She also suffered from cancer, which was removed...

Besides capturing the essences of her models or subjects, Carrington's work includes appreciations of earlier artists, such as Goya , Renoir , and especially Cézanne , and reflects such further, varied influences as Thomas Bewick

She received advice and encouragement with the actual writing, and help in choosing a title from Richard Garnett (Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum ). This time she knew that if a publisher...

It had previously been serialized from May 1905 to May 1906. Its treatment of ancient Egyptian magic owes a good deal to the information she received from Ernest Wallis Budge , Keeper of Egyptian and...

EGB studied Greek manuscripts of St John's Gospel at the British Museum , and checked her translations against those of earlier Bible scholars. In her chapter Suggestions and Interpetations, she critiques the practices of...

She may have seen, exhibited at the British Museum , the wonderful coloured representations of tropical insects and plants by the Dutchwoman Maria Merian .

In a letter she slighted her own work as my usual presumption of copying beautiful nature. But Horace Walpole , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and William Gilpin , the authority on the picturesque, were...

MEB was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand...

BH did research for this novel in the British Museum , with help from a reverend librarian, whom I have the honour to call my friend. It was later sometimes referred to as Catherine the...