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M. Dorothy George

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George's work on the BM Satires, begun in 1930 on the invitation of the Museum Trustees, was a massive work of great scholarship that systematised a large corpus of previously undocumented source material and recorded its complex historical context. Her work covered over 13,000 prints from the
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she graduated in 1899 with a first class degree in History. During the first World War she worked in British Intelligence for MI5; before returning to academia as a research scholar at the London School of Economics.
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Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
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Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
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Pottle, Mark (2004). "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004: George née Gordon, (Mary) Dorothy(1878–1971)".
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Griffiths, Antony (2010). "Collections Online: The Experience of the British Museum".
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Portrait photograph of Mary Dorothy George in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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England in Transition: Life and Work in the Eighteenth Century
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best known for compiling the last seven volumes of the
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Hogarth to Cruikshank: Social Change in Graphic Satire
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Mary Dorothy George
London
England
Historian
Art Historian
satire
British Museum
historian
Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
Cambridge University
Matthew Darly
James Sayers
Robert Dighton
James Gillray
Thomas Rowlandson
Isaac Cruikshank
Richard Newton
Charles Williams
William Heath
Isaac Robert Cruikshank
George Cruikshank
Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
List of historians




Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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10.1093/ref:odnb/45657

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