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Writing Lives Together - Romantic and Victorian auto/biography (Hardcover)
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Writing Lives Together - Romantic and Victorian auto/biography (Hardcover)
Series: Life Writing
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A diary entry, begun by a wife and finished by a husband; a map of
London, its streets bearing the names of forgotten lives;
biographies of siblings, and of spouses; a poem which gives life to
long-dead voices from the archives. All these feature in this
volume as examples of 'writing lives together': British life
writing which has been collaboratively authored and/or joins
together the lives of multiple subjects. The contributions to this
book range over published and unpublished material from the late
eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography,
auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and
directories. The book closes with essays by contemporary,
practising biographers, Daisy Hay and Laurel Brake, who explain
their decisions to move away from the single subject in writing the
lives of figures from the Romantic and Victorian periods. We
conclude with the reflections and work of a contemporary poet,
Kathleen Bell, writing on James Watt (1736-1819) and his family, in
a ghostly collaboration with the archives. Taken as a whole, the
collection offers distinctive new readings of collaboration in
theory and practice, reflecting on the many ways in which lives
might be written together: across gender boundaries, across time,
across genre. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Life Writing.
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