Hitherto in this series the Anglican authors I’ve covered published work themselves which has become recognised, one way or another, as ‘classic’. My subject this time is someone who didn’t publish anything in his lifetime. He died relatively young, but evidently had literary ambitions, which found an outlet in a remarkable diary he keptContinue reading “Revisiting Anglican Classics 13: Francis Kilvert’s Diary”
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How not to write a biography – a cautionary tale
In 1980, the Clarendon Press published the first volume of a projected multi-volume biography of the Duc de Choiseul, Louis XV’s foreign minister who is often blamed for France’s catastrophic defeats in the Seven Years’ War, and therefore for a major share of the governmental failures of the Ancien Régime which precipitated the FrenchContinue reading “How not to write a biography – a cautionary tale”
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