This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Holmes, Richard

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197mm x 128mm x 23mm

Pages: 360

Richard Holmes, the renowned biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explains the two principles that have guided his biographical work: physically visiting all the places that held meaning for his subject; and keeping a two-sided notebook (one page of facts with reflections en face). In this book he first takes us on his journeys and through his notebooks; then goes in search of the lives of five women: Margaret Cavendish, Zélide, Madame de Staël, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Somerville.