British Museum

With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum 's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere...

She began using the new technique in 1772. The idea of the collection dates from 1774, but she included in it a few representations made before that. She titled the volumes Plants copied after Nature...

She made some editorial changes, for publication, to all her South American writings done while she was actually there, and resolved to omit all quotation from private letters or conversation, though her editor says she...

She had been working on these translations for some years. This handsome work was (in the words of the old Dictionary of National Biography) enriched with curious illustrations laboriously executed by hand, by...

SW 's authorship of this work was not known in her lifetime. This was a member of a very new genre: it represented only the third or fourth guidebook in English about a non-resort location...

While ER was writing Fellowship she was also collaborating with Harriet Grote on an article calling for reforms to the British Museum . Their article appeared anonymously in the January 1868 Quarterly Review.

Daviot was sued for plagiarism by Gillian Oliver , the author of a novel about Richard II titled The Broomscod Collar (1930). The case was settled out of court, and the arbitrator judged that the...

For years the British Museum (that part which is now the British Library ) shelved its copy of this poem in the suppressed safe of works so scandalous they had to be read under...

AD 's art and her gender made her a kind of tourist attraction. She complained of being teazed and tired to death with the number of persons coming to see her work, and making crass...

After she was widowed, ET's mother moved from near London (in Surrey) to the capital itself: Wyans Court, just off Great Russell Street in Bloomsbury (near the original British Museum ). They stayed...

After he retired from the British Museum , her father came to live with her and her husband in 1840.

Virginia was keen to regain access to the amenities of London—music, the British Museum , social life (her delight in parties, she wrote, was a piece of jewellery I inherit from my mother)

This novel takes a darker view of relationships than most of Pym's earlier works, depicting suburbia as inhabited by misfits and eccentric loners, all struggling, mostly in vain, for affection and happiness. The...

ABE seizes the attention of her audience from her first paragraph with her claim that to the surprise of scholars, ancient Egyptian woman turns out to have been always free, respected, and in the full...

In crediting to herself the collection rather than the editing, of this material, for which she had done substantial work in the British Museum , she perhaps sold herself short, for her preface makes it...