Mapping Lives
Subtitle: The Uses of Biography (British Academy Centenary Monographs)
Contributors: Peter France (Editor); William St Clair (Editor)
Publisher: British Academy
Published: December 3, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780197263181
First sentence: As he set out to wreak havoc on his four Eminent Victorians in 1918, Lytton Strachey tenderly suggested that English biography might eventually rediscover its true calling as 'the most delicate and most humane of all the branches of the art of writing'.