Helena Michie is Agnes C. Arnold Professor in Humanities and Professor English, Rice University. She is the author of Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (CUP, 2006), Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture (OUP, 1991), and The Flesh Made Word: Women’s Figures, Women’s Bodies (OUP, 1987), co-author, with Naomi R. Cahn, of Confinements: Policing the Reproductive Body (Rutgers University Press, 1997) and co-editor of, with Ronald Thomas, Nineteenth-Century Geographies: From the Victorian Age to the American Century (Rutgers University Press, 2002). Robyn Warhol is Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at The Ohio State University, where she is a core faculty member of Project Narrative. Her most recent books are Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions (co-edited with Susan S. Lanser, Ohio State University Press, 2015) and Love among the Archives: Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor (co-authored with Helena Michie, Edinburgh University Pres, 2015).

Superb. Warhol and Michie’s Love Among the Archives is a triumph of a book, that reinvents academic biography and tells a compelling story of the passions and mysteries of Victorian lives and archives. Inventive, witty and knowing, it is both an important reflection on biographical method and a joy to read.

• List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; A Vita for Sir George Scharf (Timeline); Part I. Introduction: Adventures in the Archives; 1. Identifying George Scharf; 2. Expanding Middles; 3. So Many Archives; 4. The Ephemeral Archive: The Lives of Objects; 5. The Institutional Archive: The NPG on Paper and Screen; 6. The Monumental Archive: A Trip to Xanthus; 7. The Visceral Archive: A Victorian Dinner Party; 8. Writing George Scharf’s ‘Life’; II. Reading for Romance: The Marriage Plot; 9. Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places; 10. A World of Men; 11. We Don’t Know Jack about George; 12. ‘Don’t Be Shocked!’; 13. ‘Jackiana’, or, Giving Jack Away; 14. Getting Used To It; 15. Piano Wars; 16. Romance Plot Redux; 17. After Plot: Illegible Romance; III. Reading for Differentiation: The Family Romance; 18. Left Behind: George Senior; 19. Incorporating the Elderlies: Mother and Aunt; 20. Horizontal Narratives (1): Family (Accounting) Systems; 21. Horizontal Narratives (2): Brother Henry Disappears; IV. Reading for Success: The Professional Plot; 22. Desiring Knole; 23. Knole in the National Imaginary; 24. In Which We (Maybe) Uncover a Dark-Hearted Villain; 25. Days and Nights at Knole; 26. Back to the Table; 27. In Which We Become Guests of the Sackvilles (Sort of); 28. Friends at Chevening; 29. Reading for Death; Coda: Our Archivist, Ourselves; List of Works Cited; Index

Helena Michie is Agnes C. Arnold Professor in Humanities and Professor English, Rice University. She is the author of Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (CUP, 2006), Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture (OUP, 1991), and The Flesh Made Word: Women’s Figures, Women’s Bodies (OUP, 1987), co-author, with Naomi R. Cahn, of Confinements: Policing the Reproductive Body (Rutgers University Press, 1997) and co-editor of, with Ronald Thomas, Nineteenth-Century Geographies: From the Victorian Age to the American Century (Rutgers University Press, 2002). Robyn Warhol is Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at The Ohio State University, where she is a core faculty member of Project Narrative. Her most recent books are Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions (co-edited with Susan S. Lanser, Ohio State University Press, 2015) and Love among the Archives: Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor (co-authored with Helena Michie, Edinburgh University Pres, 2015).

Superb. Warhol and Michie’s Love Among the Archives is a triumph of a book, that reinvents academic biography and tells a compelling story of the passions and mysteries of Victorian lives and archives. Inventive, witty and knowing, it is both an important reflection on biographical method and a joy to read.

• List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; A Vita for Sir George Scharf (Timeline); Part I. Introduction: Adventures in the Archives; 1. Identifying George Scharf; 2. Expanding Middles; 3. So Many Archives; 4. The Ephemeral Archive: The Lives of Objects; 5. The Institutional Archive: The NPG on Paper and Screen; 6. The Monumental Archive: A Trip to Xanthus; 7. The Visceral Archive: A Victorian Dinner Party; 8. Writing George Scharf’s ‘Life’; II. Reading for Romance: The Marriage Plot; 9. Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places; 10. A World of Men; 11. We Don’t Know Jack about George; 12. ‘Don’t Be Shocked!’; 13. ‘Jackiana’, or, Giving Jack Away; 14. Getting Used To It; 15. Piano Wars; 16. Romance Plot Redux; 17. After Plot: Illegible Romance; III. Reading for Differentiation: The Family Romance; 18. Left Behind: George Senior; 19. Incorporating the Elderlies: Mother and Aunt; 20. Horizontal Narratives (1): Family (Accounting) Systems; 21. Horizontal Narratives (2): Brother Henry Disappears; IV. Reading for Success: The Professional Plot; 22. Desiring Knole; 23. Knole in the National Imaginary; 24. In Which We (Maybe) Uncover a Dark-Hearted Villain; 25. Days and Nights at Knole; 26. Back to the Table; 27. In Which We Become Guests of the Sackvilles (Sort of); 28. Friends at Chevening; 29. Reading for Death; Coda: Our Archivist, Ourselves; List of Works Cited; Index

Helena Michie is Agnes C. Arnold Professor in Humanities and Professor English, Rice University. She is the author of Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (CUP, 2006), Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture (OUP, 1991), and The Flesh Made Word: Women’s Figures, Women’s Bodies (OUP, 1987), co-author, with Naomi R. Cahn, of Confinements: Policing the Reproductive Body (Rutgers University Press, 1997) and co-editor of, with Ronald Thomas, Nineteenth-Century Geographies: From the Victorian Age to the American Century (Rutgers University Press, 2002). Robyn Warhol is Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at The Ohio State University, where she is a core faculty member of Project Narrative. Her most recent books are Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions (co-edited with Susan S. Lanser, Ohio State University Press, 2015) and Love among the Archives: Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor (co-authored with Helena Michie, Edinburgh University Pres, 2015).

Superb. Warhol and Michie’s Love Among the Archives is a triumph of a book, that reinvents academic biography and tells a compelling story of the passions and mysteries of Victorian lives and archives. Inventive, witty and knowing, it is both an important reflection on biographical method and a joy to read.

• List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; A Vita for Sir George Scharf (Timeline); Part I. Introduction: Adventures in the Archives; 1. Identifying George Scharf; 2. Expanding Middles; 3. So Many Archives; 4. The Ephemeral Archive: The Lives of Objects; 5. The Institutional Archive: The NPG on Paper and Screen; 6. The Monumental Archive: A Trip to Xanthus; 7. The Visceral Archive: A Victorian Dinner Party; 8. Writing George Scharf’s ‘Life’; II. Reading for Romance: The Marriage Plot; 9. Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places; 10. A World of Men; 11. We Don’t Know Jack about George; 12. ‘Don’t Be Shocked!’; 13. ‘Jackiana’, or, Giving Jack Away; 14. Getting Used To It; 15. Piano Wars; 16. Romance Plot Redux; 17. After Plot: Illegible Romance; III. Reading for Differentiation: The Family Romance; 18. Left Behind: George Senior; 19. Incorporating the Elderlies: Mother and Aunt; 20. Horizontal Narratives (1): Family (Accounting) Systems; 21. Horizontal Narratives (2): Brother Henry Disappears; IV. Reading for Success: The Professional Plot; 22. Desiring Knole; 23. Knole in the National Imaginary; 24. In Which We (Maybe) Uncover a Dark-Hearted Villain; 25. Days and Nights at Knole; 26. Back to the Table; 27. In Which We Become Guests of the Sackvilles (Sort of); 28. Friends at Chevening; 29. Reading for Death; Coda: Our Archivist, Ourselves; List of Works Cited; Index