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 systemetised 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.

Bibliography

• Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum Vols V (1935) to XI (1954). British Museum
• England in Transition: Life and Work in the Eighteenth Century Routledge 1931
• English Political Caricature. 2 Vols. Oxford University Press, 1959
• London Life in the Eighteenth Century, 1964
• Hogarth to Cruikshank: Social Change in Graphic Satire, Viking 1967
• England in Johnson's Day 1972

See also

• Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
• List of historians

References

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 938 words