Scott on Zélide

Scott on Zélide
Author: Geoffrey Scott
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Zelide lived in her father's moated castle in Holland, like a fairytale princess in a tower. She was the clever, sexy, mercurial young Dutch blue-stocking with whom Boswell fell disastrously in love in 1764. The rest of Zelide's story was unknown until the young Boswell scholar Geoffrey Scott pieced it together from her intimate letters and essays. Subsequent affairs with a cynical cavalry officer, a celebrated but vacillating writer (aptly named Benjamin Constant), and a thoroughly reliable music master, took her eventually to another fairytale mansion in Switzerland. This portrait of a belle-espirit is one of a series of biographies of literary figures presented by Richard Holmes

Scott on Zélide: Portrait of Zélide by Geoffrey Scott

Scott on Zélide: Portrait of Zélide by Geoffrey Scott
Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0007372027

‘Lives that Never Grow Old’ is a wonderful series– edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.

The Spectator

The Spectator
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1104
Release: 1925
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

The Arvon Book of Life Writing

The Arvon Book of Life Writing
Author: Sally Cline
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1408124181

Essential reading for anyone interested in writing biography or memoir, with practical advice from successful biographers and creative writing teachers.

Life Writing

Life Writing
Author: Sally Cline
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1472531051

Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing biography, autobiography and memoir. PART 1 explores the history and forms of life writing and the challenges and potential pitfalls of the genre. PART 2 includes tips by bestselling writers: Diana Athill, Alan Bennett, Alain de Botton, Jill Dawson, Millicent Dillon, Margaret Drabble, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Glendinning, Lyndall Gordon, Peter Hayter, Richard Holmes, Michael Holroyd, Kathryn Hughes, Diane Johnson, Hermione Lee, Andrew Lownie, Janet Malcolm, Alexander Masters, Nancy Milford, Blake Morrison, Andrew Morton, Clare Mulley, Jenni Murray, Nicholas Murray, Kristina Olsson, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, Meryle Secrest, Miranda Seymour, Frances Spalding, Hilary Spurling, Boyd Tonkin, Edmund White. PART 3 includes practical advice - from planning, researching and interviewing to writing, pacing and navigating ethical issues.

The Adelphi ...

The Adelphi ...
Author: John Middleton Murry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1924
Genre: English prose literature
ISBN: