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Contemporary Biographers of Nineteenth-Century Novelists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Frederick R. Karl
Frederick R. Karl
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New York Unviversity
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A sudden scholarly interest in Robert Louis Stevenson has resulted in a good many publications — his collected letters, a brief life by Ian Bell, a more authoritative life by Frank McLynn, and a very full biography of Fanny Stevenson, the American woman who lived with the writer for the last twenty years of his life. Besides informing us about the Stevensons, this outpouring says a good deal about where biography is now, in the mid-1990s.

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Review Essays
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , Spring 1997 , pp. 191 - 201
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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