Sadržaj:
  • Introduction: wiriting about lives
  • Shelley's heart and Pepys's lobsters
  • Virginia Woolf 's nose
  • Reading in bed
  • Jean Austen faints
  • On Being I11
  • Father and son: Philip and Edmund Gosse
  • An Appetite for Writing: Thurman'c Colette
  • The sheltered life: Ellen Glasgow
  • Mr and Ms Eliot
  • A secret self: Mey Sinclair
  • Bittersweet: Rosamond Lehmann
  • Worh pathes: Eudora Welty
  • A quiet stone: J. M. Coetzee
  • Good show: the life and work of Angela Thirkell
  • Psychic furniture: Ellmann's Elizabeth Bowen
  • The man from God knows where: remembering Brian Moore
  • How to end it all
  • Notes
  • Index