Abstract:Although very popular in the nineteenth century, Victorian biography was damningly criticized in the twentieth century. This entry looks at the proliferation of Victorian biography and at some of the concerns expressed in the eighteenth century about how it should be written and what it should contain or omit. It then looks at the condemnation of it in the early twentieth century and at the new and more sympathetic approaches to it evident in some contemporary work by literary scholars and historians.
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