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.
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.
The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny. - Claire Tomalin
The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.
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…
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.
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…
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 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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