This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic BiographerA masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe and into the lively company of many earlier biographers. Central to this pursuit is a powerful evocation of the lives of women both scientific and literary, some well known and others almost lost: Margaret