Mary Dorothy George (1878–1971), née Gordon, 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 centuries.
[1] During the first World War she worked in British Intelligence for MI5; before returning to academia as a research scholar at the London School of Economics.
[1] George's work on the BM Satires, begun in 1930 on the invitation of the Museum Trustees, was a massive work of great scholarship that systematised a large corpus of previously undocumented source material and recorded its complex historical context.
[1] Her work covered over 13,000 prints from the "golden age" of British satirical printmaking and its leading artists such as Matthew Darly, James Sayers, Robert Dighton, James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, Isaac Cruikshank, Richard Newton.
The catalogue entries were scanned as part of the British Museum's ongoing digitalisation project of its collections [2] and provide the basis for many of the entries on the British Museum on-line catalogue.