Mary Dorothy George
M Dorothy George (1878–1971), was a British historian best known for compiling the last seven volumes of the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, the primary reference work for the study of British Satirical prints of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.George's work on the BM Satires was a massive work of great scholarship that systemised a large corpus of previously undocumented source material and recorded its complex historical context. Her work covered the period of the 'golden age' of British satirical printmaking and its leading artists James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank.
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| Alias (AKA) | George Mary Dorothy |
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| Birth date | January 01, 1878 |
| Birth name | Mary Dorothy George |
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| Date of death | January 01, 1971 |
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