Bronte, Murdoch, biographies of authors
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Here's my problem: For a class, I need to read a scholarly and pretty comprehensive biography of someone creative, dead, and interesting to me. Charlotte Bronte and Iris Murdoch are both interesting to me, but I'm having trouble figuring out what to read that would fit the bill.
Murdoch died pretty recently and it seems that the people who've written about her, including her "official biographer", were close acquaintances, probably in love with her, etc., and therefore their books have received a lot of criticism for being not very objective and also perhaps not very insightful when it comes to figuring out what made her tick. Has anyone read any of these? (The official one is Iris Murdoch: A Life.)
There are many more books about Bronte, so the problem there is finding the right one. There's a famous one, The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell, which has also received some criticism for perhaps melodramatizing Brontes life, but might still be the right choice. It's hard to tell. Does anyone know of another one with a good reputation?
Failing that, I'd be interested in recommendations of author biographies that do a good job of delving into the author's personality and creative process. Anyone?
Murdoch died pretty recently and it seems that the people who've written about her, including her "official biographer", were close acquaintances, probably in love with her, etc., and therefore their books have received a lot of criticism for being not very objective and also perhaps not very insightful when it comes to figuring out what made her tick. Has anyone read any of these? (The official one is Iris Murdoch: A Life.)
There are many more books about Bronte, so the problem there is finding the right one. There's a famous one, The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell, which has also received some criticism for perhaps melodramatizing Brontes life, but might still be the right choice. It's hard to tell. Does anyone know of another one with a good reputation?
Failing that, I'd be interested in recommendations of author biographies that do a good job of delving into the author's personality and creative process. Anyone?
