Types of Prose Narratives: A Text-Book for the Story Writer
CHAPTER VIII. PERSONAL ACCOUNTS 557-611
I. JOURNAL AND DIARY--The two distinguished--The range of journals--"Vida del Gran Tamurlan"--Great diaries--How to write journal and diary--Examples 557
II. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS--Distinction--Cellini, Franklin, and others--Selection and coherence--Examples 572
III. BIOGRAPHY--Beginning in England of literary biography--Great biographies in English--Writer and subject--Beginning, emphasis, and attitude--Outline for a life--Examples 590