Biography: An Historiography
Biography: An Historiography

Author: Melanie Nolan

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-04-03

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 0429760833

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Biography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present – considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically. This volume analyses the strategies and methods that historians have used in response to seven major issues identified over time to do with evidence, including but not limited to the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, the problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective, both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth. This volume will be essential for both postgraduates and historians studying biography.

Mosaic: A Family Memoir Revisited
Mosaic: A Family Memoir Revisited

Author: Michael Holroyd

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0393344304

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A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees. After writing the definitive biographies of Lytton Strachey and George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd turned his hand to a more personal subject: his own family. The result was Basil Street Blues, published in 1999. But rather than the story being over, it was in fact only beginning. As letters from readers started to pour in, the author discovered extraordinary narratives that his own memoir had only touched on. Mosaic is Holroyd's piecing together of these remarkable stories: the murder of the fearsome headmaster of his school; the discovery that his Swedish grandmother was the mistress of the French anarchist Jacques Prévert; and a letter about the beauty of his mother that provides a clue to a decade-long affair. Funny, touching, and wry, Mosaic shows how other people's lives, however eccentric or extreme, echo our own dreams and experiences.

Basil Street Blues and Mosaic
Basil Street Blues and Mosaic

Author: Holroyd

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 009954895X

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Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of our time yet he wasn't interested in exploring his own family's history until the death of his parents.'Basil Street Blues' is part detective story, part family memoir & part an oblique voyage of self-discovery. In his follow-up volume, 'Mosaic', he delves deeper into his family history.

In Collaboration with British Literary Biography
In Collaboration with British Literary Biography

Author: Jane McVeigh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-13

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 3319583832

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This book is about one person’s reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty years. It is less interested in what happened in the lives of the people described in these biographies, and more concerned with how these stories have been told. It aims to have a conversation with British biographers, particularly Michael Holroyd, Richard Holmes, Hermione Lee and Claire Tomalin, to make their voices heard, to set them talking. It understands biography as an ongoing collaboration, not only between biographers and their subjects, but between biographers and their readers. This is also a study of haunting, in which we haunt the lives of others to help us come to a better understanding of our own.

The Pattern in the Carpet
The Pattern in the Carpet

Author: Margaret Drabble

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0547386095

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A beautifully written and deeply personal book, a mix of memoir, jigsaw history, and the strange delights of puzzling.

A Book of Secrets
A Book of Secrets

Author: Michael Holroyd

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2011-08-02

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1429969210

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A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction title for 2011 On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters that move through Michael Holroyd's new book are destined never to meet, yet the Villa Cimbrone unites them all. A Book of Secrets is a treasure trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements, and family mysteries. With grace and tender imagination, Holroyd brings a company of unknown women into the light. From Alice Keppel, the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales; to Eve Fairfax, a muse of Auguste Rodin; to the novelist Violet Trefusis, the lover of Vita Sackville-West—these women are always on the periphery of the respectable world. Also on the margins is the elusive biographer, who on occasion turns an appraising eye upon himself as part of his investigations in the maze of biography. In A Book of Secrets, Holroyd gives voice to fragile human connections and the mystery of place.

Basil Street Blues
Basil Street Blues

Author: Michael Holroyd

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2001-05

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780393321746

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Michael Holroyd is a distinguished biographer, but was never interested in exploring his own family's history until his parents died in the 1980s. This encouraged him to find out more about his parents, their stories, and their origins.

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide
Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide

Author: Nick Rennison

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-11-23

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1408113953

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Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead you on a rich journey through some the best literature to grace our shelves.