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  • I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart.JPG

    An art song for the pianoforte and alto singer composed by Maude Valérie White while studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London. It feature words by Sir John Suckling.
  • Pictures from Abroad Title Page.JPG

    A set of fourteen pianoforte pieces by Maude Valérie White inspired by her extensive European travels.
  • Two Love Songs Title Page.JPG

    Two Love Songs composed by Maude Valérie White with words from other artists. The first movement is entitled "A Youth Once Loved a Maiden" and the second movement "When I Think On Happy Days". Pictures taken by Hannah Kelley in the British Library St. Pancras Reading Rooms.
  • mary-shelley-blue.jpeg

    Home of Mary Shelley marked by blue plaque in London, England. Plaque reads "MARY SHELLEY 1797-1851 Author of Frankenstein lived here 1846-1851." Photo taken by Sophia Vanderwaal.
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    Home of Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley marked by a blue plaque in London, England. Plaque reads "Percy / Bysshe Shelley / 1792-1822 / Poet & Radical Thinker / & / Mary Shelley / 1797-1851 / Author of Frankenstein / lived in a house / on this site / 1815-1816." Photo taken by Sophia Vanderwaal
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    Home of Mary Wollstonecraft marked by brown plaque in Oakshott Court. Plaque reads "In a house on this site lived Mary Wollstonecraft, author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", 1759 - 1797. Camden London Borough Council." This is the location where Mary Shelley was born and Mary Wollstonecraft died.
  • william-godwin-portrait.jpeg

    Portrait of William Godwin, philosopher and novelist, by James Northcote, oil on Canvas. On display in the National Portrait Gallery.
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    The exterior of Sudeley Castle, where Katherine Parr lived and died.
  • Three Little Songs Title Page.JPG

    "Three Little Songs" by Maude Valérie White, with words German Volkslied and by M. Darmesteter. Published posthumously in 1955 by Banks Music Publications in York.
  • Water_pump.jpg

    The water pump is placed at the corner of Broad Street. Sitting outside of the John Snow pub. Soho, London