The prolific biographer, first editor of the 26 volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography, and father of Virginia Woolf, shares secrets of the trade in this wide-ranging collection of essays. This first of four volumes published from 1898-1902 includes National Biography, The Evolution of Editors, shorthand inventor John Byrom, Johnsoniana, Gibbons Autobiography, Arthur Young, and Wordsworths Youth.
ISBN: | 9781411452350 |
Publication date: | 10th May 2011 |
Author: | Stephen, Leslie |
Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | Ebook (Epub) |