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Feb 08, 1938 Corsham, England, United Kingdom Died on 03 Nov 2004 (aged 66)
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About Janet Backhouse
- Janet Backhouse (8 February 1938 – 3 November 2004) was a manuscripts curator and a leading authority in the field of illuminated manuscripts. Backhouse was born in Corsham, Wiltshire, and was educated at Stonar School and Bedford College, London.
- In 1962 she joined the British Museum's Department of Manuscripts as an Assistant Keeper.
- In 1998 she retired from the British Library (as it had since become) as Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts.
- By the end of her career "she had established an international reputation as one of the foremost scholars in her field".A festschrift, Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters: Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse, was published on the occasion of her retirement, edited by Michelle P.
- Brown and Scot McKendrick (1998).
