TY  - BOOK
AU  - Atkinson,Juliette
TI  - Victorian biography reconsidered: a study of nineteenth-century "hidden" lives 
SN  - 9780199572137 (hbk.)
U1  - 920.009034 A J V 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - English prose literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Biography as a literary form
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Victoria, 1837-1901
KW  - Biography
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-306) and index; The many faces of Victorian biography -- Victorian hero-worship -- "The simple annals of the poor": biographies of humble men -- "Tragic failures" and "happy mediocrity": biographies of unsuccessful men -- "Quiet and uneventful"?: female literary biography -- "Inheritors of unfulfill'd renown": championing Romantic poets -- "Forgotten benefactors": the Dictionary of national biography -- Conclusion: "The lives of the obscure" and Virginia Woolf
ER  -