Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century 'Hidden' Lives

By Juliette Atkinson

In 1939, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the failures as well as the successes, the humble as well as the illustrious'. She did so in part as a reaction against Victorian biography, deemed to have been overly preoccupied with 'Great Men'. Yet a significant number of Victorians had already broken ranks to write the lives of humble, unsuccessful, or neglected men and women. Victorian Biography Reconsidered seeks to uncover and assess this trend.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199572135
• ISBN13: 9780199572137
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"