The Great Biographers

Abraham Lincoln American André Maurois appeared Arnold artist attitude autobiography Barnum Benson biog Boswell Byron cardinal Carlyle Cavendish Cellini chapter character Charlotte Brontë Colley Cibber course Cowan Bridge criticism death diary Dickens Disraeli Duke Edward Gibbon eighteenth century Einhard England English biography evidence example experience fact father Forster Francis Francis Hackett Franklin Froude Gaskell Gaskell's gentleman Gibbon Goethe Guedalla hagiography Henry Adams important intellectual interest James Anthony Froude John Johnson King letters Lewes's Lincoln literary literature lives London Lord Lytton Strachey material memory method mind modern moral novelist Oxford Pepys perhaps period Philip Guedalla philosopher Phineas Taylor Barnum phrase picture Plutarch poet Pope praise present probably raphy reader record remains result Scotch seems soul spirit Stuart student things Thomas tion truth understanding Vasari Victorian Victorian era Walton Weems Wolsey writing written wrote