Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Growth of Biographical Writing 9
6. 2. Lives of the Protestant Saints 30
7. 3. Patterns in Religious Biography 53
8. 4. Izaak Walton’s Lives 78
9. 5. Lives of Public Figures 91
10. 6. Lives of Writers: Scientists and Antiquaries 114
11. 7. Lives of the Poets 128
12. 8. Brief Lives: Thomas Fuller and Anthony Wood 145
13. 9. Brief Lives: John Aubrey 170
14. 10. Biography as Family History 199
15. 11. Roger North: Lives of the Norths 219
16. Notes 243
17. Bibliography 279
18. Index 289