Introduction to this Special Issue on Biography and Life-Writing

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Notes

¹Those who presented at the symposium included Jill Roe, Desley Deacon, Leigh Boucher and Robert Reynolds.

²See also, Richard Broome, Introduction, Tracing Past Lives: The Writing of Historical Biography (Victoria: History Institute, 1995) and Ann Curthoys and Ann McGrath, How To Write History That People Want to Read (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2009), 186.

³Barbara Caine, Biography and History (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 69.

⁴Mark Hearn and Harry Knowles, ‘Struggling for Recognition: Reading the Individual Labour History’, Labour History, no. 87, November (2004): 6.

⁵Hermione Lee, Biography: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 94; Roundtable discussion in The American Historical Review, vol. 114, no. 3, June 2009; Caine, Biography and History.

⁶Nicholas Brown, ‘Biographers in the Museum’, Recollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, vol. 13, no. 2, October 2008. On the Stolen Generations see http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/bringing-them-home-online.html (accessed 28.9.11); adoption http://arts.monash.edu.au/historyofadoption/ (accessed 28.9.11) and Forgotten Children http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ (accessed 25.11.11).

⁷Broome, ‘Introduction’, 10.

⁸Barbara W. Tuchman, ‘Biography as a Prism of History’, in Stephen B. Oates, ed. Biography as High Adventure: Life-Writers Speak on Their Art (Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1986): 96.

⁹Tuchman, ‘Biography,’ 103.

¹⁰Judith Brett, Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People (Sydney: Macmillan Australia, 1992).

¹¹See primarily John Rickard, A Family Romance: The Deakins at Home (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996).

¹²John Rickard, ‘Reading the Victorian Family’, in Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds, eds. History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003), 84–95.

¹³John La Nauze, Alfred Deakin: A Biography (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1965).

¹⁴Judith Brett, ‘The Tasks of Political Biography’, in Damousi and Reynolds, eds. History on the Couch, 84–95.

¹⁵Judith Brett, ‘The Tasks of Political Biography’, in Damousi and Reynolds, eds. History on the Couch, 84.

¹⁶Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (New York: W. W. Norton, 1984).

¹⁷Nick Salvatore, ‘Biography and Social History: an Intimate Relationship’, Labour History, no. 87, November (2004): 187–92.

¹⁸Tuchman, ‘Biography’ 94.