Peter Ackroyd

His death was assumed to be suicide, and attained emblematic status as a response to blighted hopes in a world inimical to poetry. But in fact Chatterton had been publishing busily (mostly in periodicals) and...

Bertrand Russell offered them a place to live,.but then embarked on a romantic relationship with Vivien which lasted until they actually became lovers, after which it collapsed. TSE , thinks biographer Peter Ackroyd , may...

Her reputation has remained so enmeshed in that of Charles that until recently ML was often hidden in his shadow. Recent scholarly work, especially by Jane Aaron and Sarah Burton , has begun to remedy...

According to Dickens 's biographer Peter Ackroyd , he followed up his initial meeting with MB by sending her cousinan extravagant missive of love about her . . . complete with a heart and...

In addition to her supportive professional relationship with her husband, FET was also close to other writers such as Charles Dickens , her brother-in-law Anthony Trollope , her mother-in-law Frances Trollope , and George Eliot

Lives of the Queens of England was frequently reprinted with additions and revisions; the 1852 edition, regarded as definitive, was reprinted in 1972 with an introduction by the Stricklands' fellow-biographer Antonia Fraser . Fraser 's...

Fellow-novelist Peter Ackroyd wrote about this book, I haven't often read battle scenes which come so immediately and horrifyingly to life. And yet they are presented neutrally and even blandly, as if the world were...

Notable amid a chorus of praise for the two trilogies which make up OM 's Fortunes of War (often from fellow writers) was Anthony Burgess . He admired the work's gallery of characters and places...

With time Dickens has come to stand for a particular understanding of Victorian Britain. His biographer Peter Ackroyd says of him that it was his peculiar genius to represent, to bring together, more aspects of...