Collected here are the biographies which revealed aspects of their subjects that the more favourable "official" accounts tended to hide

Volume Editors: Gail Marshall (V1 George Eliot), Corinna Russell (V2: Charles Dickens), Matthew Bevis (V3: Lord Alfred Tennyson) Series Editor Ralph Pite.

Introduction, Bibliography, Chronology, 1 Alexander Main, Why's, Witty and Tender Sayings In Prose And Verse Selected From The Works of George Eliot 2 Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Note On Charlotte Bronte 3 Beatrice Webb, Diary Entry for 2 February 1881 For Edith Simcox, George Eliot 5 William Hale White, The Autobiography Of Mark Rutherford 6 Matilda Blind, George Eliot 7 JW Cross, George Eliot's Life As Related In Her Letters And Journals 8 Henry James, George Eliot's Life 9 Mrs Oliphant, The Life And Letters Of George Eliot 10 RH Hutton, George Eliot 11 Charles Bray, Phases Of Opinion And Experience During A Long Life: An Autobiography 12 Alice James, Diary Entry 4 28 June 1889 13 Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember 14 Oscar Browning, George Eliot 15 C.E. Raymond( Elizabeth Robbins), George Manville's Husband 16 Bessie Rayner Belloc, And A Walled Garden 17 Eliza Lynn Linton, George Eliot 18 Leslie Stephen, George Eliot 19 Herbert Spencer, An Autobiography 20 Virginia Woolf, George Eliot