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Victorian Biography Reconsidered : A Study of Nineteenth-Century 'Hidden' Lives
Overview
In 1939, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the failures as well as the successes, the humble as well as the illustrious'. She did so in part as a reaction against Victorian biography, deemed to have been overly preoccupied with 'Great Men'. Yet a significant number of Victorians had already broken ranks to write the lives of humble, unsuccessful, or neglected men and women. Victorian Biography Reconsidered seeks to uncover and assess this trend.
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- ISBN-13: 9780199572137
- ISBN-10: 0199572135
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publish Date: October 2010
- Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.36 pounds
- Page Count: 326
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