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Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. This is the story of two literary critics’ attempts to track down Sir George Scharf, the founding director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, famous in his day and strangely obscure in our own.

Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor

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Hardback by Helena Michie , Robyn Warhol

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Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is an... Read more

    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 30/09/2015
    ISBN13: 9781474406635, 978-1474406635
    ISBN10: 1474406637

    Number of Pages: 256

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

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    Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. This is the story of two literary critics’ attempts to track down Sir George Scharf, the founding director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, famous in his day and strangely obscure in our own.

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