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Product description The British Library boasts the world's largest collection of original manuscripts, as well as an outstanding collection of letters, personal diaries, first editions, and other literary treasures. The titles in this series take full advantage of this vast source of documentary evidence by offering state-of-the-art facsimiles of relevant documents and reproductions of art from the period. Penned by expert biographers, each of these books also contains an index, further reading list, and a chronology of the writer's life. Order the complete hardcover British Library Writers' Lives series and you get: Emily Bronte by Robert Barnard Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning by Martin Garrett Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Seamus Perry Joseph Conrad by Chris Fletcher of the British Library Charles Dickens by Elizabeth James of the University of London George Gordon, Lord Byron by Martin Garrett John Keats by Stephen Hebron Mary Shelley by Martin Garrett -- A New York Public Library "Books for the Teen Age" selection! Virginia Woolf by Ruth Webb of the University of London William Wordsworth by Stephen Hebron