Title	Victorian biography reconsidered [electronic resource] : a study of nineteenth-century 'hidden' lives
Author	Juliette Atkinson
Imprint	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199572137.001.0001
Descript	1 online resource

Through an examination of numerous biographies, from the lives of working-class scientists to minor women writers, 'Victorian Biography Reconsidered' examines how and why 19th-century biographers challenged the contemporary obsession with 'great men' and brought to public attention the lives of neglected or unknown men and women