Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.
All writers behave badly. All people behave badly. - Claire Tomalin
All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.
- Claire Tomalin
Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune. - Claire Tomalin
Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.
The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny. - Claire Tomalin
The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.
All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends. - Claire Tomalin
All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.
I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years. - Claire Tomalin
I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biograp… - Claire Tomalin
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biograp…
As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mi… - Claire Tomalin
As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mi…
By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all. - Claire Tomalin
By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.
I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again. - Claire Tomalin
I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.
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