Humphrey Carpenter

The Elusive Charles Dickens

Dickens: Interviews and Recollections

By Philip Colins (ed)

Catherine Peters

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian of Letters

By Leslie Mitchell

Frances Spalding

Gay At Heart

Anny: A Life of Anne Isabella Thackery Ritchie

By Henrietta Garnett

David Nokes

Only Opium Could Make Him Charming

George Crabbe: An English Life 1754 -1832

By Neil Powell

Paul Johnson

The Frozen Deep

Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing

By Michael Slater

Diana Athill

Astonishing Intimacy

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Frances Wilson

Adam Sisman

He Lived Too Long

Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt

By Nicholas Roe

The Wit in the Dungeon: Leigh Hunt and His Circle

By Anthony Holden

Henrietta Garnett

Arbitrators of the Mind

The Strachey Family

By Barbara Caine

John Sutherland

No Smoke without Fire?

The Great Charles Dickens Scandal

By Michael Slater

Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor

By Ruth Richardson

John Sutherland

Rowed to Success

Below the Fairy City: A Life of Jerome K Jerome

By Carolyn W de la L Oulton