Biographical Projects and the Reconstruction of Cross-Channel Lives: Progress and Challenges by Vivienne LARMINIE

“…Compared with the late nineteenth century Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford DNB) presents a fuller picture of the lives of British people abroad, whether it be their education, travel or exile. …”
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‘Des mémoires sur la vie de cet illustre philosophe’: George Leman Tuthill’s Unwritten Biography of Diderot by Caroline Warman

“…Tuthill later trained as a doctor and became renowned as a physician to various asylums; he therefore boasts an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, but nothing appears there about his earlier ambitions with respect to Diderot, and Diderot scholarship has known nothing about his existence. …”
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‘Wisdom is a gift given to the Wise’: Florence Farr (1860–1917): New Woman, Actress and Pagan Priestess by Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

“…According to Caroline Wise, who wrote her Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies entry, in Florence Farr: ‘[t]he mystical, the philosophical and the political wove a seamless whole in an active, questing and pioneering life’. …”
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