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Classical literature --- Biography in literature --- Biography as a literary form --- Portraits in literature --- Ethics in literature --- Civilization, Greco-Roman --- History and criticism --- Congresses.

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This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, Lady Florence Dixie, George Eliot, and Edith Simcox. Through exposing distortions, this fascinating study demonstrates that biographies are often more about the biographer than they are about the biographee and that they are products of the time in which they are written.

English literature --- Biography in literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- British literature. --- Literature-History and criticism. --- Culture. --- Gender. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Literary History. --- Culture and Gender. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Literature—History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern --- European literature. --- Literature --- Sex. --- European Literature. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- European literature --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- 19th century. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation