# Biography for Beginners Being a Collection of Miscellaneous Examples for the Use of Upper Forms

Author: Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew), 1875-1956 [Editor]; Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46691

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## Summary

(_In all work of a biographic character it is important to make copious reference to as many as possible of the generally-recognised virtues, vices, good points, foibles, peculiarities, tricks, characteristics, little weaknesses, traits, imperfections, fads, idiosyncrasies, singularities, morbid symptoms, oddities, faults, and regrettable propensities set forth in the following table. The form of an alphabetic index, with references to the examples given in the preceding pages, has been chosen, so that the beginner who may be desirous, when trying his hand at work of this sort, of seeing how any given one of these subjects may best be treated, is enabled at once to turn to one or more mod...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/biography-for-beginners-being-a-collection-of-miscellaneous-exa-3c0c02e4/chapters/1/index.md)