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Studies of a Biographer

Studies of a Biographer

Studies of a Biographer

Volume 4:
Leslie Stephen
May 2012
4
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Paperback
9781108047722
$35.99
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    Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904) was founding Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (NBD). 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 4 considers Shakespeare the man, Southey, Anthony Trollope and Robert Louis Stevenson, and includes a critique of recent works on Milton.

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    May 2012
    Paperback
    9781108047722
    290 pages
    216 × 140 × 17 mm
    0.37kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Shakespeare as a man
    • Southey's letters
    • New lights on Milton
    • Emerson
    • Anthony Trollope
    • Robert Louis Stevenson
    • The cosmopolitan spirit in literature.
      Author
    • Leslie Stephen