An antidote to the theory that history is about the biographies of great men, this book explores past lives lived on the margins. Distinguished poet and former Oxford Professor of Poetry James Fenton resurrects the hidden world of out-of-the-way individuals - from pirates to priests -whose lives were chronicled in biographical collections dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but were then forgotten.
- ISBN10 1907903283
- ISBN13 9781907903281
- Publish Date 1 September 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Notting Hill Editions
- Format Hardcover
- Language English