English biography
By: by Waldo H. Dunn. 
Publisher: J.M. Dent & sons, limited
Published: 1916
Place of publication: London [etc.]; New York, E.P. Dutton & co
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Biography as a literary form.; Autobiography.
Table of contents: value: Beginnings of the biographical impulse: Latin period (690-1066 A.D.); value: The period of transition and preparation (1066-1500); value: English verse lives.; value: The period of new beginnings in English (1500-1700); value: The rise of modern English biography - the eighteenth century.; value: The rise of English autobiography (1720-1799); value: Biography in the nineteenth century.; value: Autobiography in the nineteenth century.; value: Problems and tendencies of the present.; value: A comparative view.; value: English biography as literature.; value: In conclusion.; value: Appendix: I. Biographical compilations in Latin. II. Biographical compilations in English (to the end of the eighteenth century) III. English autobiographies. IV. Shakespeare in biography.; value: Index.