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CONTEMPORARY BIOGRAPHIES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELISTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2009

Frederick R. Karl
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Abstract

IT IS TIME to assess where contemporary biographies of Victorian novelists are heading. With two more books about George Eliot, still others on Jane Austen, and another on Anthony Trollope, we see redundancy everywhere. As for other major figures, the Brontës have finally quieted down with Juliet Barker’s monumental biography; Dickens has settled in with Peter Ackroyd and Fred Kaplan, and whoever is waiting in the wings for another stab at his life is probably wise to await the completion of the magnificent Oxford University Press edition of the letters, now passing Volume 11.

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Review Article
Information
Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , September 2001 , pp. 535 - 549
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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