Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor

by Helena Michie and Robyn Warhol

Book Overview

Two Literary Critics Romancing the Archive at London's National Portrait Gallery.
Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. This is the story of two literary critics' attempts to track down Sir George Scharf, the founding director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, famous in his day and strangely obscure in our own...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474406645
• ISBN13: 9781474406642
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"