1. David Nasaw, ‘Introduction to AHR Roundtable: Historians and Biography’, American Historical Review, 114, June 2009, p. 573.
2. See Arnaldo Momigliano, The Development of Greek Biography (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1993), pp. 1–4.
3. Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis, with a preface by Thomas Case (London: Oxford University Press, 1960), p. 87.
4. Cited in
5. Mark Salber Phillips, Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740–1820 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), p. 134.