Category: Biography

Editor’s Note, p. iii

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“Just Like Rosa”: History and Metaphor in the Life of a Seventeenth-Century Peruvian Saint, pp. 275-310
Ronald J. Morgan

Jacinto Moran de Butron, the seventeenth-century hagiographer of St. Mariana de Jesus, compared his beloved “Lily of Quito” to the world-famous St. Rose of Lima. The metaphor of Rose and Lily had broader implications, however, reflecting the author’s conscious desire to advertise the merits of his native province of Quito as a worthy companion to the more affluent and esteemed Lima.

Continue reading “Biography, vol. 21, no. 3 (1998)”

Editor’s Note, p. iii

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The Remasculinization of the Artist and Author in Ford Madox Ford’s Life Writing, pp. 153-174
Bette H. Kirschstein

Ford Madox Ford’s lifelong ambivalence about the “manliness” of his profession led him to a number of efforts to affirm his masculinity, the most sustained of which took place in his life writing. When famous artists and authors appear in his autobiography, memoirs, literary portraits, or biographical sketches, he often “remasculinizes” them, presenting them as conventionally, and sometimes exaggeratedly, virile.

Continue reading “Biography, vol. 21, no. 2 (1998)”

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Family Portrait: Churchills at Drink. pp. 1-23
Marvin Rintala

Many British politicians have been heavy drinkers. Winston Churchill was certainly among them, but his drinking was more an expression of his personality than of his occupational environment. The root of his drinking was the life-long depression caused by the coldness of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, himself a heavy drinker. Winston Churchill’s heavy drinking was in turn reflected by that of three of his children, Diana, Sarah, and Randolph, all of whom lived and died in sad circumstances. The most helpful background for visualizing Winston Churchill at drink would therefore be his family circle, not his fellow politicians, except for F.E. Smith, his chief drinking companion. Assembling that family circle might have been difficult.

Continue reading “Biography, vol. 21, no. 1 (1998)”

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