16798 Kipling Very early in the career

Very early in the career of the biographer who later wrote A Portrait of Jane Austen (1978)

the Lords of the Admiralty ordered the original dispatches from seven major fleet battles be gathered and presented to the nation

there is always something new to learn

200 years later

and "An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson" [1792]

16798 Kipling Very early in the careerBloom starts this collection with a lesson on analysis of character, then an editor's note and an introduction that interestingly compares her to Richardson's Clarissa. Essays by Marvin Mudrick, Andrew H. Wright, C. S. Lewis, Henrietta Ten Harmsel, Howard S. Babb, Stuart M. Tave, Susan Morgan, Bernard J. Paris, Susan Fraiman, Donald A. Bloom, Gloria Sybil Gross. Character profile, bibliography, index. Can these esteemed critics help us understand why