Biography: writers

'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.

From her childhood in Whitby to her long old age in Cambridge, the life of Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986), novelist, autobiographer, and political activist, spanned almost the whole of the twentieth century.

'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman.

'I went & sat with W & walked backwards & forwards in the Orchard till dinner time - he read me his poem.

Maurice Bowra was, according to one's point of view, either the most distinguished or the most notorious Oxford don of the early twentieth century.

This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography.

Biography appears to thrive as never before; and there clearly remains a broad readership for literary biography.

Edmund Curll was a notorious figure among the publishers of the early eighteenth century: for his boldness, his lack of scruple, his publication of work without author's consent, and his taste for erotic and scandalous publications.

Charles Dickens had three professional careers: novelist, journalist and public Reader.

Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period.

The word 'autobiography' is a late eighteenth-century coinage; yet by 1826 it was used as the title for a multi-volume anthology of self-writing, and in 1834 Thomas Carlyle wrote of 'these Autobiographical times of ours'.

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942.

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'.

Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume2.

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume2.

'It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.

Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age.

Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age.

Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart.

Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.

Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance.

Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance.

It may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkableJohn Stuart Mill (1806-73), philosopher, economist, and political thinker, was the most prominent figure of nineteenth century English intellectual life and his work has continuing significance for contemporary debates about ethics, politics and economics.

It may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkableJohn Stuart Mill (1806-73), philosopher, economist, and political thinker, was the most prominent figure of nineteenth century English intellectual life and his work has continuing significance for contemporary debates about ethics, politics and economics.

A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht is the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004).

A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht is the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004).

This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio.

Meeting Without Knowing It compares Rudyard Kipling and W.

Meeting Without Knowing It compares Rudyard Kipling and W.

This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings--the group of Oxford writers that included C.

This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings--the group of Oxford writers that included C.

Deirdre David traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood growing up in a theatrical household in South London to her death as the widow of the novelist and popular intellectual C.

Deirdre David traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood growing up in a theatrical household in South London to her death as the widow of the novelist and popular intellectual C.

Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished Sanditon.

Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished Sanditon.

Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart.

On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock.

On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock.

Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age.

Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age.

A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide.

Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist examines Ralph Ellison's body of work as an extended and ever-evolving expression of the author's philosophy of temporality-a philosophy synthesized from the writings of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche that anticipates the work of Gilles Deleuze.

Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist examines Ralph Ellison's body of work as an extended and ever-evolving expression of the author's philosophy of temporality-a philosophy synthesized from the writings of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche that anticipates the work of Gilles Deleuze.

A groundbreaking new look at American novelist Willa Cather's creative processWhat would Willa Cather's widely read and cherished novels have looked like if she had never met magazine editor and copywriter Edith Lewis?

A groundbreaking new look at American novelist Willa Cather's creative processWhat would Willa Cather's widely read and cherished novels have looked like if she had never met magazine editor and copywriter Edith Lewis?

A captivating biography that celebrates the audacious, inspiring life and works of John Milton, revealing how he speaks to our times.

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