Alms for oblivion
Subtitle: books, men and biography
By: [by] George Carver
Series: Science and culture series: Joseph Husslein ... general editor
Publisher: The Bruce publishing company
Published: 1946
Place of publication: Milwaukee
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Biography as a literary form; English literature; History and criticism
Notes: Bibliography: p. 302-306.
Table of contents: title: By way of definition; title: Adamnan and Saint Columba; title: Saint Thomas More and King Richard III; title: Nicholas Harpsfield and "Sir Thomas More"; title: Cavendish and "The life and death of Thomas Wolsey"; title: Izaac Walton and his "Lives"; title: Thomas Fuller; title: Margaret Newcastle and her "Life of the duke; title: Dryden and Plutarch; title: Roger North and his brothers; title: Samuel Johnson and "The lives of the poets"; title: William Mason and Thomas Gray; title: Goldsmith and his "Lives"; title: Boswell and the "Johnson"; title: Malone and the "Dryden"; title: Washington Irving; title: Lockhart and Scott; title: Carlyle's "Life of John Sterling"; title: John Forster; title: Trevelyan and Macaulay; title: Froude and Carlyle; title: Sir Leslie Stephen and collective biography; title: Bradford; title: Strachey; title: Bibliography; title: Index.