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Victorian biography reconsidered : a study of nineteenth-century "hidden" lives
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- Creator
- Juliette Atkinson
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- English
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
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- viii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199572137, 0199572135
- OCLC
- ocn500823006
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-306) and index.
- The many faces of Victorian biography -- Victorian hero-worship -- "The simple annals of the poor": biographies of humble men -- "Tragic failures" and "happy mediocrity": biographies of unsuccessful men -- "Quiet and uneventful"?: female literary biography -- "Inheritors of unfulfill'd renown": championing Romantic poets -- "Forgotten benefactors": the Dictionary of national biography -- Conclusion: "The lives of the obscure" and Virginia Woolf