Brief Lives by Colin Matthew
Drawn from the archives of "The Dictionary of National Biography", this collection offers nearly 200 sharply drawn profiles of the men and women who have helped shape British national life this century. Full of insight and wit, and often surprisingly frank, these vignettes provide definitive portraits of their subjects by people who knew them personally. Writers, artists, and musicians rub shoulders with scientists, industrialists, politicians, and soldiers in this highly readable celebration of national endeavour and achievement. From Laura Ashley to Evelyn Waugh, Tony Hancock to Bertrand Russell, this volume offers some of the riches of "The Dictionary of National Biography" in a single volume. One of the delights of this entertaining anthology is that many of the mini-biographies are written by people who themselves are prominent in public life and who write from personal knowledge of their subjects. Discover Kingsley Amis on Sir John Betjeman, Stephen Spender on W.H. Auden, Ian Gilmour on R.A. Butler, Richard Ellmann on T.S. Eliot, Alan Bennett on Russell Harty, and David Cecil on Virginia Woolf.
Garnett, Jane: - Professor Jane Garnett is a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Wadham College, Oxford, UK. Dr Garnett's research is on intellectual, cultural and religious history, predominantly of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the study of gender and visual culture over wider periods. She was Consultant Editor for Women on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (1994-2004), as well as acting as Associate Editor for Victorian Women Philanthropists.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198600879 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198600879 |
| Title | Brief Lives |
| Author | Colin Matthew |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1997-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 619 |
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