TY  - GEN
T1  - Love among the archives : writing the lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian bachelor
T2  - Edinburgh scholarship online.
A1  - Michie, Helena
A1  - Warhol, Robyn R.
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn933442522
AB  - Two Literary Critics Romancing the Archive at London's National Portrait Gallery. WINNER of the 2016 NAVSA Book of the Year 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. After discovering Scharf's scrapbook of menus and invitations from England's most stately homes, the authors began their adventures in the archives of London, searching Scharf's diaries, sketchbooks, and letters for traces of the man who so loved dining out. Addicted to Victorian novels, the authors looked for a marriage plot, but found Scharf's passionate attachment to a younger man who had hidden from him a secret engagement; they looked for a Bildungsroman, but found that Scharf never left his beloved mother. Always short of money, self-educated, talented, irascible, gregarious, prolific, and snobbish, this son of a poor immigrant artist was to become the right-hand man of an earl he called "my best friend." The written record of his nightmares, debts, gifts, and dinner parties comes together to produce a rich Victorian character whose personal and professional lives challenge what we think we know about sex, class, and profession in his time
CN  - N7483.S33 M53 2015
SN  - 9781474406659
SN  - 1474406653
SN  - 9781474406666
SN  - 1474406661
SN  - 1474416225
SN  - 9781474416221
SN  - 9781474406635
SN  - 9781474406642
SN  - 1474406637
SN  - 1474406645
KW  - Scharf, George, : 1820-1895.
KW  - National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
KW  - Scharf, George, : 1820-1895
KW  - Art critics : England : Biography.
KW  - Critiques d'art : Angleterre : Biographies.
KW  - ART : History : General.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Art critics
KW  - England
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -