I recently bought a book that IMO belongs in a museum. Ovarit seems like the best place to ask for recommendations on this, since we seem to have a lot of scholars, historians, etc with strong roots in women's history, particularly Victorian women's history.

The book itself is fairly ancient, dates from the early 1700s, but that's not the important part. It belonged to Rosina Bulwer Lytton at a time when she was angry enough to pour out that anger on the endpapers and flyleaves of an already antique book in her library. She wrote a short, two-line poem in it calling her despicable husband exactly what he was, as well as a longer note written in French (in the same hand) which I haven't read through yet.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton was an author (poetry and satire, among other things), the daughter of Anna Wheeler (Irish proto-feminist of the first half of the 1800s), and the unhappy wife of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (author and first-rate dickhead even by Victorian standards for husbands, leading to her renaming him 'Sir Liar Coward Lytton' in this book). They separated, and she publicly mocked and denounced him on page (Cheveley, or the Man of Honour) and in person, and in response he had her committed to an insane asylum, to public outcry. Along with Louisa Nottidge, who was similarly wrongfully committed for being an inconvenient woman, this contributed to reform in the UK (and inspired the popular Wilkie Collins novel, The Woman In White). She was released and later wrote a book about her experience in A Blighted Life.

I am hoping for advice on which institution(s) would be best to approach about adding this to their collection, maybe even recommendations for whom to contact about it if someone has that (and do plan to scan it first, can upload that here if anyone's interested). She isn't a hugely famous historical figure, so she doesn't seem to have her own dedicated collection/foundation or anything like that that I've been able to find. I definitely want to return it to the UK. If Glasgow Women's Library were less completely in the throws of the current ideological zeitgeist, I'd think they might be a good fit, but right now Victoria & Albert museum seems like the most promising place to approach. Regardless, it deserves to be preserved better than just sitting in my own little cabinet of antiquarian books, and any help from Ovarettes experienced in this would be hugely appreciated because I don't really have a clue where to start.