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...ends happily harmless enough the back of one great mans head, the hat and umbrella of another...Poovey 1989; Clarke 1991 , so, in the 1890s a great deal was at stake in the delineation of biography as productive work. Leslie Stephen did Lives...

...Publication Data Hoberman, Ruth. Modernizing lives. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Biography as a literary form . 2. Great Britain -- Biography. I. Title. CT21.H59 1987 808.06692 86-4004 ISBN 0-8093-1288-3

...or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic...Richard The elements of life: biography and portrait-painting...Richard The elements of life: biography and portrait-painting...cm. Includes index. 1. Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts. 1603-1714 -- Biography -- History and criticism...History. 4. Biography as a literary form 5. Portrait painting...

...a fool nor a genius; but maintains the odd thesis that biography does not require genius; it requires only a peculiar form of talent. The distinctions between these two indefinables...The paradox is attractive, and yet-is it true? Can a great literary achievement be explained as the fortuitous result of a happy...

...years after his death and a year after the appearance of his biography. 135 In 1898, with the help of these and some other family...commentary, of her married life. 136 In all but its want of literary form this substantial document is an important contribution to...

...Hamilton-Greys First Biography of Henry Kendall. by...While Hamilton-Greys biographies have provided source material...unexamined figure in Australian literary history. The primary...autobiography (A Brief Biography of the Authoress and An...the Mitchell with her literary estate. Agnes Maria Melville...in Scotland, amp; of Great Britain ... Mr Hamiltons training...year later, lodged the Form of Information to obtain...claims to be Australias greatest poet (Sydney Morning...

...destroyed by a reactionary literary mainstream incapable of legitimate...become signs of a corrupt literary critical apparatus exacerbating...worship, it also constitutes a form of engagement with the complexities...early nineteenth-century Britain. Moreover, it helps to...Browns early attempt at Keatss biography. "A Mighty Soul in a Little...challenge to the putatively dry literary conventions of the eighteenth...

...Fame and Writing of the Self by the "Great" Landgrafin Karoline of Hessen-Darmstadt...history alike claim the Landgrafins great and unremitting influence on Hessen...written portraits of the Landgrafin, no biography is dedicated to her alone. Studies...her use of reading and writing. THE GREAT LANDGRAFINS POSTHUMOUS FAME: CONTEMPORARIES...recollections by her contemporaries. The greatest influence, almost inevitably, is exercised...

Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Womens...Sharpe. Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Womens...Morrisons characterization, as "literary archaeology." Her rationale...Maroon Story, which gives greater visibility to Nanny than...search for autonomy not a form of resistance? Sharpe grapples...West Indian migration to Britain as a postwar phenomenon...Caribbean who have spent a great deal of their time writing...

...Century Bible Biography and Feminist Bible...in collective biographies written by British...77). In the form of collective...take with Bible biography. Although they...writes of similar biographies of the female...as vital to the greater redemption plan...The collective biography genre also permitted...his Scripture Biography published in the...compared to other forms of nineteenth...century collective biographies by men, women...Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination...work mocked "our great Milton" and called...

...Naval Commanders Who Made Britain Great. by David Cordingly The Naval Commanders who made Britain Great Andrew Lambert Faber...It is centred around the biographies of eleven British admirals...analysis of what makes a great naval commander. He does...as the author of a fine biography of Nelson, he is able to...

Britain Cultural as well as national...From the visual to the literary, the social and psychological impact of the great English bard is explored...years. Lord John Russell: A Biography by Paul Scherer (Associated...sterling) is a political biography charting Russells lengthy...the eagerly awaited new biography of this extraordinary man...

...scholarly yet eminently readable biography of one of our foremost men of letters." "Oh, I see. Literary cove. Know the type. Drink...sir. The subject of this biography was a most abstemious gentleman...century, like all the best biographies, it also doubles as a vivid...suspect not, sir. He is the literary editor of a periodical called...easily digestible dialogue form, so that you may confidently...

...AND THE MAKING OF AN ENGLISH BRITAIN. by Alan MacColl Alan MacColl...early modern Britain, and form part of the historical background...Until the seventeenth century Great Britain normally signifies England...are overwhelmingly Latin and literary. Any Welshness is almost...one familiar with medieval literary conventions would take this...

...Ceremonial Continuities between Britain and America. These He Argues...The pride, the glory of Britain, and the direct end of its...wrote to his son of the Kings great regard for him. As Franklins...John Brooke observed in his biography of George III (1972...Massachusetts. The hostility to Britain and its King during the Revolution...the French Revolution. The forms of government on offer to...republic, is not any particular form of government. King George...

Biography melds Durrell and his work...convey the excitement and literary stir that accompanied publication...1960. Readers here and in Britain and in Durrells adopted...traditional chronological form than the two previous books...fact, Durrell was more literary jackdaw than original thinker...fathers insistence on the great change. Save for the English...mutually congratulatory literary correspondence in the world...

...POLITICS: Birmingham Man Named Greatest PM Britain Never Had. He was part of one of Britains great political dynasties, winner...the greatest Prime Minister Britain never had. As Gordon Brown...Francis Beckett, whose biography of Mr Brown is published...which Germany, France, Britain, Belgium and Italy agreed...

BRITAIN Briefing: GREAT NIGHT FOR BRIT STARS. DAVID Suchet declared an "unbelievable night...home the best actor Emmy for his portrayal of Robert Maxwell in the biography series Maxwell, about the scandal-plagued final stages of the...

Celebrate Our Greatest Explorer; There Is No Statue...Lived. Tim Jeal, Whose Biography of Stanley Is Just out, Explains Why the Greatest of All the Victorian Explorers...sailed round two of Africas great lakes for the first time...statue of him anywhere in Britain. This is because Stanley...could then have been cast in Britain. But the surprisingly large...

The Great Diana Debate; Is the Princess...Verdicts on the Issue Dividing Britain. Byline: SIMON HEFFER...at her mercy. One of the greatest mistakes was when, in the...the support she needed. The great question, of course, is...the Dimbleby documentary and biography. Then came the Panorama interview...at his side. She will be a great loss - and I and millions...

GEORGE I , king of Great Britain and Ireland (George...1727, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1714 27...electress of Hanover, and great-grandson of James I...son, George II. See biography by J. H. Plumb, The...

GEORGE VI , king of Great Britain and Ireland (Albert Frederick Arthur George), 1895 1952, king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1936 52...succeeded by Elizabeth II. See biography by S. Bradford (1989...

...The Origins of Biography Among the most ancient biographies are the narrative...Among the first biographies of ordinary men...early achievements of biography, however, lack...Yet the few secular biographies produced in that...of Biography as a Literary Form By the 18th cent...and Frederick the Great (1858 65), and...

...include Notes as Vice President (1935), A Journal of Reparations (1939), and Journal as Ambassador to Great Britain (1939). See biography by B. N. Timmons (1953). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...

...written under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. From 1967 to 1972 he was poet laureate of Great Britain. See his autobiography, The Buried Day (1960); biography by J. N. Riddel (1971). ____________________ Copyright 2009...