english novelists

A biography of the nineteenth-century English novelist, Charles Dickens, emphasizing the value of an imaginative mind.

A biography of Marian Evans, a victorian writer who adopted a male pen name to preserve her privacy.

A memoir in which Lori Smith discusses her experiences following the footsteps of author Jane Austen throughout England, a journey that gave her insights into the value of an ordinary life and provided her with relief from her own physical and mental struggles.

Presents a biography of Douglas Adams, British author of the popular book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and its sequels and includes information about his family and writing life.

Explores how the Bronte sisters became cultural symbols in the mid-eighteenth century, despite the fact that their novels scandalized English society and the truth about their identities shocked their readers.

Quentin Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, draws from family journals, as well as Woolf's personal correspondence and diaries, to tell the life story of his famous relative, discussing her childhood, her marriage, her affair with Vita Sackville-West, her writing career, and her 1941 suicide.

A biography of the great 19th-century English novelist Charles Dickens.

A biography of the English author, focusing on the passionate and fiery nature that lay behind her image as a modest Victorian lady.

Looks at the life of author Jane Austen, a well-traveled woman who was very much a part of the world in which she lived, focussing on her environment, her friendships and her romantic attachments.