This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.This Reflection investigates some of the questions that arise when one attempts to ‘write lives together’. What are the intellectual and theoretical implications of this mode of biographical writing? What might be its seductions? What are its creative possibilities? It considers the place of invisible figures in group biography, and argues that the genre enables the recovery of these figures in particularly productive ways. It does so because its focus rests not on individuals but on the interstices between them. Two women receive particular attention. The first is Elizabeth Kent, the sister-in-law of the radical Romantic jou...
Paper on the complex tensions that can develop between how biographers portray persons after their d...
Popular though biography is, it has as yet received very little critical attention. What nearly all ...
The study of biography as an exercise in sociology has been under-used. The early proponents of a so...
In 1940, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the fail...
This thesis aims to interrogate the notion that biography is a 'traditional, old-fashioned' genre im...
Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate t...
Writing biography is often layered in its telling with long lapses of time between research and writ...
The restorative power of biography in recognising ‘forgotten lives’ is well established. In the fiel...
This thesis explores the effect produced when contemporary novelists write about fellow authors. Sin...
Nothing is more our own than our biography. Even the body, in which we spend our whole life, from bi...
The essential provocation is this: that the biographer is not to be reduced to a simple symptomal su...
This edited collection brings together research that focuses on historic figures who have been large...
Biographies that openly include conjecture and speculation have attracted virulent criticism for mo...
Biographies that openly include conjecture and speculation have attracted virulent criticism for mo...
Based on an experience of creative writing (the turning into a narrative of family history reconstru...
Paper on the complex tensions that can develop between how biographers portray persons after their d...
Popular though biography is, it has as yet received very little critical attention. What nearly all ...
The study of biography as an exercise in sociology has been under-used. The early proponents of a so...
In 1940, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the fail...
This thesis aims to interrogate the notion that biography is a 'traditional, old-fashioned' genre im...
Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate t...
Writing biography is often layered in its telling with long lapses of time between research and writ...
The restorative power of biography in recognising ‘forgotten lives’ is well established. In the fiel...
This thesis explores the effect produced when contemporary novelists write about fellow authors. Sin...
Nothing is more our own than our biography. Even the body, in which we spend our whole life, from bi...
The essential provocation is this: that the biographer is not to be reduced to a simple symptomal su...
This edited collection brings together research that focuses on historic figures who have been large...
Biographies that openly include conjecture and speculation have attracted virulent criticism for mo...
Biographies that openly include conjecture and speculation have attracted virulent criticism for mo...
Based on an experience of creative writing (the turning into a narrative of family history reconstru...
Paper on the complex tensions that can develop between how biographers portray persons after their d...
Popular though biography is, it has as yet received very little critical attention. What nearly all ...
The study of biography as an exercise in sociology has been under-used. The early proponents of a so...