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Helena Michie and Robyn Warhol's award-winning Love among the Archives: Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor and Simon Goldhill's eagerly awaited study of the Bensons, A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain ... are, moreover, pleasures to read: witty, deft, and stylish. --Talia Schaffer, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1990 Superb. Warhol and Michie's Love Among the Archives is a triumph of a book, that reinvents academic biography and tells a compelling story of the passions and mysteries of Victorian lives and archives. Inventive, witty and knowing, it is both an important reflection on biographical method and a joy to read. --John Bowen, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of York A brilliant and ambitious experiment in life writing, Love Among the Archives is a delicious, witty, learned performance. Part scholarly detective story, part postmodern metanarrative, part cautionary tale about the temptations, limits, rewards, frustrations, and secret desires involved in doing archival research, it recalls both Byatt's Possession and Symons's The Quest for Corvo. --Professor John O. Jordan, University of California, Santa Cruz Superb. Warhol and Michie's Love Among the Archives is a triumph of a book, that reinvents academic biography and tells a compelling story of the passions and mysteries of Victorian lives and archives. Inventive, witty and knowing, it is both an important reflection on biographical method and a joy to read. John Bowen, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of York A brilliant and ambitious experiment in life writing, Love Among the Archives is a delicious, witty, learned performance. Part scholarly detective story, part postmodern metanarrative, part cautionary tale about the temptations, limits, rewards, frustrations, and secret desires involved in doing archival research, it recalls both Byatt's Possession and Symons's The Quest for Corvo. Professor John O. Jordan, University of California, Santa Cruz

Superb. Warhol and Michie's Love Among the Archives is a triumph of a book, that reinvents academic biography and tells a compelling story of the passions and mysteries of Victorian lives and archives. Inventive, witty and knowing, it is both an important reflection on biographical method and a joy to read. John Bowen, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of York A brilliant and ambitious experiment in life writing, Love Among the Archives is a delicious, witty, learned performance. Part scholarly detective story, part postmodern metanarrative, part cautionary tale about the temptations, limits, rewards, frustrations, and secret desires involved in doing archival research, it recalls both Byatt's Possession and Symons's The Quest for Corvo. Professor John O. Jordan, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Helena Michie is Agnes C. Arnold Professor in Humanities and Professor English, Rice University. She is the author of Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (CUP, 2006), Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture (OUP, 1991), and The Flesh Made Word: Women's Figures, Women's Bodies (OUP, 1987), co-author, with Naomi R. Cahn, of Confinements: Policing the Reproductive Body (Rutgers University Press, 1997) and co-editor of, with Ronald Thomas, Nineteenth-Century Geographies: From the Victorian Age to the American Century (Rutgers University Press, 2002). Robyn Warhol is Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at The Ohio State University, where she is a core faculty member of Project Narrative. Her most recent books are Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions (co-edited with Susan S. Lanser, Ohio State University Press, 2015) and Love among the Archives: Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor (co-authored with Helena Michie, Edinburgh University Pres, 2015).

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