Studies of a Biographer

Studies of a Biographer

Leslie Stephen, English biographer and critic, the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (1832-1904)


This ebook presents «Studies of a Biographer», from Leslie Stephen. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.


Table of Contents

- About This Book

- National Biography

- The Evolution Of Editors

- John Byrom

- Johnsoniana

- Gibbon's Autobiography

- Arthur Young

- Wordsworth's Youth

- The Story Of Scott's Ruin

- The Importation Of German

- Matthew Arnold

- Jowett's Life

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

- Life Of Tennyson

- Pascal

- The Browning Letters

- John Donne

- John Ruskin

- William Godwin's Novels

- Walter Bagehot

- Thomas Henry Huxley

- James Anthony Froude

- In Praise Of Walking

- Shakespeare As A Man

- Southey's Letters

- New Lights On Milton

- Emerson

- Anthony Trollope

- Robert Louis Stevenson

- The Cosmopolitan Spirit In Literature