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Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is the story of two literary critics' attempts to track down Sir George Scharf, the founding director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, famous in his day and strangely obscure in our own.

Biography as a literary form. --- Biography --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Scharf, George, --- G. S. --- S., G. --- Scharf, G. --- Friends and associates. --- Archives. --- London (England) --- Social life and customs --- Intellectual life --- Art critics --- National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) --- Critics --- Great Britain. National Portrait Gallery --- London (England). National Portrait Gallery --- London. National Portrait Gallery