Autobiography/Biography

Mary Renault | David Sweetman | The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South Africa

Mary Renault | David Sweetman | A biography of the author of ‘The King must die’ discusses her harsh upbringing, her scholarship years at Oxford, her work as a nurse during World War

Mary Renault | David Sweetman | The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South Africa

Charlotte Mew and Her Friends: With a Selection of Her Poems (Radcliffe Biography Series) | Penelope Fitzgerald | Penelope Fitzgerald’s fascinating porttrait of Bloomsbury’s saddest poet. Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) was a poet with a formidable reputation who, as V

Una Troubridge, the Friend of Radclyffe Hall | Richard Ormrod | When Una Troubridge died at the age of seventy-six, part of the inscription she had instructed her executors to put on her coffin read: ‘The Friend of

Una Troubridge | Richard Ormrod | When Una Troubridge died at the age of seventy-six, part of the inscription she had instructed her executors to put on her coffin read: ‘The Friend of

Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall | Michael Baker | This biography of Radclyffe Hall, the woman who broke the literary taboo against lesbianism with the 1928 publication of ‘The Well of Loneliness,’ is

Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall | Michael Baker | This biography of Radclyffe Hall, the woman who broke the literary taboo against lesbianism with the 1928 publication of ‘The Well of Loneliness,’ is

Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Naomi Jacob, Fred Barnes, and Arthur Marshall | Paul Bailey | Francis Bacon is one of the most important and influential artists of the latter part of this century. A fascinating, but very private figure, he was