Volume 27, Number 20 · December 18, 1980
A Successful Martyr
By Neal Ascherson
Olive Schreiner
by Ruth First, by Ann Scott
Schocken, 383 pp., $20.00
The women's movement has been reclaiming biography as an account of a single human life that can illuminate its times and teach a moral and political example. The effect is to return to the evangelical roots of biography, to the spirit of, say, Foxe's Book of Martyrs or the Puritan journals which petered out in sanctimonious Victorian lives or the consciously archaic biographies of Scottish nineteenth-century divines.
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