Studies Of A Biographer, Volume 1

The prolific biographer, first editor of the 26 volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography, and father of Virginia Woolf, shares secrets of the trade in this wide-ranging collection of essays. This first of four volumes published from 1898-1902 includes "National Biography, " "The Evolution of Editors, " shorthand inventor "John Byrom, " "Johnsoniana, " "Gibbon's Autobiography, " "Arthur Young, " and "Wordsworth's Youth."