Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Stephen's Stephens; Introduction: 'Some little employment': letters, Lives and Leslie Stephen; On the wire: Leslie Stephen, Life-writing and the art of forgetting; Missing her: the Leslie Stephens, Anny Ritchie and the sexual politics of genre; Froude's Carlyles: anatomies of a controversy; Dust-clouds and dissonances: married life as a literary problem; Froude: the 'painful appendix'; 'Revelations on ticklish topics': impotence, biography and Froude-Carlyle; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
An in-depth look at developments within Victorian auto/biography, asking what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority