![]() ![]() ![]() She discusses the history of biography through medieval saints’ lives, Boswell’s biography of Johnson and Strachey’s Eminent Victorians to Virginia Woolf’s biography of Flush (Elizabeth Barret-Browning’s spaniel). Her book explores different approaches to biography in the Anglophone world. ![]() Dame Hermione Lee is a Professor of English Literature at Oxford and a renowned biographer herself. Hermione Lee’s A Very Short Introduction to Biography is definitely one of the better short introductions out there. Some Very Short Introductions are better than others, but that is only expected in such a massive collection of books. It reminds me a bit of the Horrible Histories and Horrible Science books I used to read when I was a teenager –a solid, basic introduction to a subject aimed at the average semi-educated reader (although comics rarely feature in OUP books, sadly). Just in case you haven’t heard of the Very Short Introduction series from Oxford University Press – I absolutely love it! ![]()
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