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| In My Good Books
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All articles were first published in
The Guardian
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'V.S.Pritchett and
the War-Time Reader.' The Guardian, 17 September
2005 [VS Pritchett].
'Hazlitt's Last Book.'
The Guardian, 24 September 2005
[On Hazlitt].
'Coleridge as an Enemy
of Intimate Biography.' The Guardian, 1 October 2005
[On Romantic biography].
'Early Autobiographies:
What They Are Like.' The Guardian, 8 October 2005
[On the origins of English autobiography].
'Autobiography of a
Suicide.' The Guardian, 15 October 2005: 23 [On writings
about suicide].
'The Journal of the
Last Tudor King.' The Guardian, 22 October 2005:
23 [On the memoir of Edward VI].
'Renaissance Man, Warts and All,' The Guardian, 29 October 2005 [On
Girolamo Cardano].
'Roger North's "Notes of Me",' The Guardian,
5 November 2005 [Roger North's Notes of Me].
'Beethoven's Trouser-Button,' The Guardian, 12 November 2005 [On Gerhard
von Breuning, Beethoven's Trouser-Button].
'Playing for Beethoven,'
The Guardian, 19 November 2005 [On the modest memoir
of Beethoven by Ferdinand Ries, who was taught piano by the
master].
'Body of Evidence,'
The Guardian, 26 November 2005 [On James Miranda Barry].
'Affairs of the Heart,'
The Guardian, 3 December 2005 [On William Godwin and
Mary Wollstonecraft].
'Tchaikovsky at Niagara Falls,'
The Guardian, 10 December 2005 [On Tchaikovsky's month
in New York].
'Virginia Woolf on Biography,'
The Guardian, 17 December 2005 [On Virginia Woolf's take
on biography].
'Many Lives of William
Blake,' The Guardian, 24 December 2005.
'A New Kind of Human
Story,' The Guardian, 31 December 2005 [On whether
Johnson invented modern biography].
'Inside the Ancien
Regime,' The Guardian, 7 January 2006 [On the
memoirs of Madame de la Tour du Pin].
'Between Principle
and Inclination,' The Guardian, 14 January 2006 [On
Benjamin Franklin's autobiography].
'What Happened to
the Head?' The Guardian,
21 January 2006 [On Mozart's Skull].
'Wordsworth's Foreign
Affairs,' The Guardian,
28 January 2006 [On Wordsworth's French mistress].
'100 Years Too Late,'
The Guardian, 4 February 2006
[On the autobiography of Colley Cibber].
'Inspirational Rogues,'
The Guardian, 11 February 2006 [On buccaneer biography].
'The Mores of Buccaneers,' The
Guardian, 18 February 2006 [On some curious facts about
pirates].
'Sailing By,'
The Guardian, 25 February 2006 [On sex slavery on the
high seas].
'The
Pretty Cabin Boy,' The Guardian,
4 March 2006 [On women in war].
'Voyages
into the Unknown,' The Guardian, 11 March 2006 [On
the published legacies of the early explorers].
'Mozart's Vienna,'
The Guardian, 18 March 2006 [On Mozart, composing and
coupling].
'Portraits of the Artist,'
The Guardian, 25 March 2006 [On the first artist's autobiography
-- by the great Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti].
'Lesson from History',
The Guardian, 1 April 2006 [On the first edition of Johnson's
Lives for a century].
'Marginal Benefit',
The Guardian, 8 April 2006 [On Michelangelo, music and
mattresses].
'Pontormo, the Great
Painter of Florentine Mannerism', The Guardian, 15
April 2006 [On the diary of Pontormo, the great painter of Florentine
Mannerism].
'Founded on Pilchards',
The Guardian, 22 April 2006 [On the founder of the Bodleian
Library].
'Matters of Love', The Guardian,
29 April 2006 [On the dangers for Elizabethan poet-songwriters].
'All at Sea', The
Guardian, 6 May 2006 [An unsparing account of brutality
on the high seas].
'Lives of the Sinners',
The Guardian, 13 May 2006 [On the confessions of Abelard].
'Runaway
Success', The Guardian, 20 May 2006 [On Frederick
Douglass's inspirational slave narrative].
'Schools of Knox',
The Guardian, 27 May 2006 [On the Knox brothers].
'In My Good Books',
The Guardian, 3 June 2006 [On the first use of autobiography
as a weapon -- by a slave].
'Guilty
Confessions', The Guardian, 10 June 2006.[On medieval
sex and sin].
'In My Good Books',
The Guardian, 17 June 2006 [On James Shapiro's 1599:
A year in the Life of William Shakespeare].
In My Good Books,
The Guardian, 24 June 2006 [On the Life
of Olaudah Equiano].
In My Good Books,
The Guardian, 1 July 2006 [On
the memoirs of Edward Gibbon].
'Confessions of Insecurity',
The Guardian,
8 July 2006 [On the sins of Saint Augustine].
'Mother Knows Best',
The Guardian,
15 July 2006 [On Saint Augustine and his mother].
'Words Worthy of Peasants',
The Guardian,
22 July 2006 [On an oblique view of Wordsworth].
'Read My Lips',
The Guardian,
29 July 2006 [On the question: Were the ancients in the
habit of reading silently, or did they normally read out loud?].
'Renaissance Boy',
The Guardian,
5 August 2006 [On a Swiss body-snatcher].
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