Janet Moira Backhouse was an English manuscripts curator at the British Museum, and a leading authority in the field of illuminated manuscripts.
10 Facts About Janet Backhouse
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Janet Backhouse was born in Corsham, Wiltshire, the daughter of Joseph Holme Backhouse and Jessie Chivers Backhouse.
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In 1962 Janet Backhouse joined the British Museum's Manuscripts department as an Assistant Keeper of Western Manuscripts.
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Janet Backhouse co-organised with Leslie Webster a 1991 exhibition of Anglo-Saxon artifacts and manuscripts, at the British Museum.
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Janet Backhouse was a longstanding member of the council of the Henry Bradshaw Society, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and served as an advisor to the National Art Collections Fund.
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Janet Backhouse was elected a member of the Comite International de Paleographie Latine in 1993.
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Janet Backhouse edited the proceedings of the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium in 1998.
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Janet Backhouse retired from the British Library as Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts in 1998.
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Janet Backhouse died in 2004 from cancer, aged 66 years, in Bath, Somerset.
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Janet Backhouse contributed to A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII, which was published after her death.