[3][4] In that role, she catalogued the papers of horsewoman Lady Anne Blunt,[5] accompanied a manuscript of Tsar Ivan Alexander to Bulgaria in 1977, and escorted the Lindisfarne Gospels to be exhibited at Durham Cathedral in 1987, to mark the 1300th anniversary of the death of Cuthbert.
[6] She also co-organised with Leslie Webster a 1991 exhibition of Anglo-Saxon artifacts and manuscripts, at the British Museum.
[8] By the end of her career "she had established an international reputation as one of the foremost scholars in her field".
[1][2] She contributed to A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII (2005), which was published after her death.
[10] 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).