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Studies of a Biographer

Studies of a Biographer

Studies of a Biographer

Volume 2:
Leslie Stephen
May 2012
2
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Paperback
9781108047708
$38.00
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    Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904) was founding Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB). Also a writer on philosophy, ethics, and literature, he was educated at Eton, King's College, London, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he remained as a Fellow and a tutor for a number of years. Though a sickly child, he later became a keen and successful mountaineer, taking part in first ascents of nine peaks in the Alps. These biographical essays and critiques were written originally for the National Review and published as two two-volume sets in 1898 and 1902. These vignettes show that, despite the years of preparing material for the DNB to its particular editorial requirements, Stephen was still a master of the finely crafted depiction of the essence of his chosen subjects. Volume 2 includes portraits of Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold and Pascal, and a study of the exploration of German literature in England.

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    May 2012
    Paperback
    9781108047708
    294 pages
    216 × 140 × 17 mm
    0.38kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • The story of Scott's ruin
    • The importation of German
    • Matthew Arnold
    • Jowett's life
    • Oliver Wendell Holmes
    • Life of Tennyson
    • Pascal.
      Author
    • Leslie Stephen