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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

1998

328 Pages

ISBN 978-1-349-26550-3

Writing the lives of writers

Edited by

Warwick Gould, Thomas F Staley

Writing the Lives of Writers ponders that strange ventriloquized dialogue between biographers and their subjects, a dialogue all the stranger when the subject is a writer. It contains 22 essays by internationally distinguished scholars and biographers including Martin C. Battestin, Isobel Grundy, John Haffenden, Hermione Lee, Lawrence Lipking, Ray Monk, Hazel Rowley, Max Saunders, Martin Stannard and John Worthen. They tackle the lives of Chaucer, Tyndale, More, Fielding and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Wordsworth, Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Yeats,Lawrence, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Malcolm Lowry, F.R. Leavis, Richard Wright and Brian Penton.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0

Full citation:

Gould, W. , Staley, T.F. (eds) (1998). Writing the lives of writers, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

A matter of life and death

Stannard Martin

1-18

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The birth of the author

Lipking Lawrence

36-53

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Re-creating Chaucer

Kennedy Ruth

54-67

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William Tyndale

Daniell David

68-78

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Life-writing without letters

Battestin Martin C.

90-106

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The white doe of Rylstone

Williams John

125-134

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"Witch" or "bitch" — which?

Gould Warwick

173-190

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The biographer and perspective

Worthen John

191-203

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Explaining the abnormal

Ellis David

204-211

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"'The past' is with me, seen anew"

Winning Joanne

212-223

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Am I afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Lee Hermione

224-238

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Devilish repressions

Monk Ray

239-265

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Textual biography

Atkins Antony

277-292

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Vignettes

MacKillop Ian

293-301

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Richard Wright

Rowley Hazel

302-312

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Private scandals and public actions

Buckridge Patrick

313-319

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