Biography and Correspondence
A curated selection of books exploring lives lived and letters written — encompassing biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, and correspondences that offer intimate access to artists across the centuries.
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With pen and brush: Autobiography of a painter -
William Rothenstein : Men and Memories: Recollections, 1872-1938 -
William de Morgan and His Wife -
William Allingham: A Diary -
Well, dearie!: The letters of Edward Burra -
Wallace Collection : The Hertford Mawson Letters : The 4th Marquess of Hertford to his agent Samuel Mawson -
Vols III, IV : Letters of Dante Gabriel Rosetti Edited by Oswald Doughty and J R Wahl, Volume III 1871 -1876, Volume IV 1877-1882 -
Vincent van Gogh on England : from his letters -
Vera Mukhina : A Sculptor's Thoughts -
True Remembrances: The memoirs of an architect -
Tour of a German Artist in England -
Time's thievish progress;: Autobiography III -
Thomas Bewick: From the Letters of 1823-1828, Letters of Thomas Bewick to John Dovaston -
Thomas Bewick: A résumé of his Life and Work -
The Young George Du Maurier : A Selection Of His Letters, 1860-67 -
The Wind in the Oak : A Biography of Claude Muncaster -
The Wheatley Diary -
The Tribulations of a Baronet -
The Tennyson album: a biography in original photographs -
The Secret Springs: An Autobiography by Claude Bragdon -
The Rossetti-Leyland letters: The correspondence of an artist and his patron -
The Professor: Arthur Severn’s Memoir of John Ruskin -
The Owl and the Rossettis: Letters of Charles A. Howell and Dante Gabriel, Christina, and William Michael Rossetti -
The Other Man: Autosvenography - Vol 3 with Poetry & Other Writings