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Love among the archives : writing the lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian bachelor / Helena Michie and Robyn Warhol.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Michie, Helena, author.
- Warhol, Robyn R., author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scharf, George, 1820-1895.
- Scharf, George.
- National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain).
- Art critics--England--Biography.
- Art critics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxv, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is the story of two literary critics' attempts to track down Sir George Scharf, the founding director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, famous in his day and strangely obscure in our own.
- Contents:
- Love Among the Archives; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; A vita for Sir George Scharf (GS); 1 Introduction: adventures in the archives; 2 Reading for romance: the marriage plot; 3 Reading for differentiation: the family romance plot; 4 Reading for success: the professional plot; Coda: our archivist, ourselves; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474416221
- 1474416225
- 9781474406666
- 1474406661
- 9781474406659
- 1474406653
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