It starred Derek Jacobi as the Biographer, Tom Ferguson as Knecht and David Seddon as Plinio.

Biographer John Hawkins characterizes the Liberal party of 1933 as " a party of thinkers and reformers ".

Biographer Tony Joseph notes that, except for a few early pieces, nearly all of Grossmith's material was written and composed by Grossmith himself.

Biographer Blanche Weisen Cook suggests that this period served as " the political education of General Eisenhower ", as he had to prioritize wide-ranging educational, administrative, and financial demands for the university.

Biographer Alan Howard conducted extensive interviews for this, the only book-length biography of the often reclusive McLean to date.

" Biographer Ian McIntyre discusses the possibility of Reynolds having enjoyed sexual rendezvous with certain clients, such as Nelly O ' Brien ( or " My Lady O ' Brien ", as he playfully dubbed her ) and Kitty Fisher, who visited his house for more sittings than were strictly necessary.

Biographer of Samuel Johnson, helped established the norms for writing biography in general.

" Biographer Robert V. Remini said that Jefferson " had no great love for Jackson.

Biographer Suzanne Finstad notes that a " turning point " in her life as an actress was upon seeing the film A Streetcar Named Desire: " She was transformed, in awe of Kazan and of Vivien Leigh's performance ... became a role model for Natalie.

Biographer Jeffry D. Wert wrote, " Longstreet deserves censure for his performance on the morning of July 2.

Biographer Leon Edel was the first to call attention to the importance of the " theatrical years " 1890 – 1895 for James's later work.

Biographer T. Harry Williams described the extravagant praise from throughout the Confederacy that " The Hero of Fort Sumter " received for his victory: " He was the South's first paladin.

Biographer Joanna Woods has said that this work signalled a turning point for Mansfield, when she was able to display a " new objectivity that gives the story a universal dimension ".

Biographer Robert Harvey suggests that this move was made because Clive's father was busy in London trying to provide for the family.

Biographer Donald Worster says, " Saving the American soul from a total surrender to materialism was the cause for which he fought.

Biographer Patrick McGilligan writes that " Hitchcock rarely managed to pull together a dream cast for any of his 1940s films, but Notorious was a glorious exception.

Biographer Stephen B. Oates has observed that Lincoln thought it immoral to ask black soldiers to fight for the US and then to remove them to Africa after their military service.

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Biographer Clark Hunter adds: " This is substantially enlarged from that which Ord wrote for vol.

Biographer Richardson explained the literary context for the book:

Biographer John Schutz speculates that the underlying reason for Pownall's request were related to frustration with his exclusion from the major military actions of the later war years, and possibly his desire to acquire a more significant post, such as a governor-generalship of conquered New France.

Biographer and paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn attributed Edward's sudden departure for Europe as a method of keeping him from being drafted into the Civil War.

Biographer Andrew Cook is sceptical about Reilly's involvement in the D ' Arcy Affair, for in February 1904, Reilly was purportedly still in Port Arthur, Manchuria.

Biographer Paula Byrne speculates that a streptococcal infection resulting from a miscarriage led to a severe rheumatic fever that left her disabled for the rest of her life.

Biographer Anne Edwards writes about the tone and tenor of Temple films under Zanuck, " This was mid-Depression, and schemes proliferated for the care of the needy and the regeneration of the fallen.

Biographer William Carlton expounds that Pauline — a commoner from Corsica — would never have made such an advantageous match if it weren't for Napoleon's political eminence.

Biographer David Buckley writes, " The essence of Bowie's contribution to popular music can be found in his outstanding ability to analyse and select ideas from outside the mainstream — from art, literature, theatre and film — and to bring them inside, so that the currency of pop is constantly being changed.

Biographer Tim Pat Coogan sees his time in power as being characterised by economic and cultural stagnation, while Diarmaid Ferriter argues that the stereotype of De Valera as an austere, cold and even backward figure was largely manufactured in the 1960s and is misguided.

Biographer Phil Baker believed that Spare derived the word from the Ancient Greek words zoe, meaning life, and zoion, meaning animal or beast, with Spare also being attracted to the exotic nature of the letter " z ", which rarely appears in the English language.

Biographer Peter Guralnick argues that he chose Sun in the hope of being discovered.

Biographer James Curtis writes: " Tracy was scarcely a blip on the box office barometer in 1935, a critics ' darling and little more ".

Biographer Antonia Fraser writing in 1968 said Mary replied, " I may be a big woman, but I have a very little neck.

Biographer Walter H. Hebert describe the general's personal habits as the " subject of much debate " although there was little debate in the popular opinion of the time.

Biographer Jan Swafford describes the Handel Variations as " perhaps the finest set of piano variations since Beethoven ", adding, " Besides a masterful unfolding of ideas concluding with an exuberant fugue with a finish designed to bring down the house, the work is quintessentially Brahms in other ways: the filler of traditional forms with fresh energy and imagination ; the historical eclectic able to start off with a gallant little tune of Handel's, Baroque ornaments and all, and integrate it seamlessly into his own voice, in a work of massive scope and dazzling variety.

" Biographer Joseph Wood Krutch described the essay as " a rather highly ingenious exercise in the art of rationalization ".

Biographer David Meyer characterized Coon Dog and Avis as loving parents: he writes in Twenty Thousand Roads that they are " remembered as affectionate parents and a loving couple ".

Biographer Daniel Jaffé argued that Prokofiev, " having forced himself to compose a cheerful evocation of the nirvana Stalin wanted everyone to believe he had created " ( i. e. in Zdravitsa ) then subsequently, in these three sonatas, " expressed his true feelings ".

Biographer Jack Zipes writes that the brothers were happy and " clearly fond of country life ".

Biographer Marc Eliot called Eastwood's role " an amalgam of the Man with No Name, Dirty Harry, and William Munny, here aged and cynical but willing and able to fight on whenever the need arose ".

Respected film critic Leslie Halliwell said " probably the best Fields vehicle there is " and W. C. Fields Biographer Robert Lewis Taylor called it " One of the great classics of American comedy ".

Biographer Andrew Lycett calls him a " spendthrift playboy " who ( with his brother Denis ) " used the Conan Doyle estate as a milch-cow ".

Biographer of J. Edgar Hoover, Curt Gentry, says that Hoover's files had " numerous allegations that Spellman was a very active homosexual ".

Biographer Robert Gittings suggests " Ode on Indolence " was written on 4 May 1819, based upon Keats's report about the weather during the ode's creation ; Douglas Bush insists it was written after " Nightingale ", " Grecian Urn ", and " Melancholy ".

Biographer Stephen Henderson writes that the war had made him " more serious and less self-confident ", but " struck by the willingness of so many to march to horrible deaths in the name of an abstract principle ".

Biographer James M. Hutchisson writes that the plot both " soars to new heights of fictional ingenuity and descends to new lows of silliness and absurdity ".

Biographer Max Riddington, who was the writer of Frances: The Remarkable Story of Princess Diana's Mother, described Frances as a woman who was " certainly complicated " and also " funny, warm, intelligent " and " energetic ".

" Biographer Tom Roberts also believes Raymond's work on Rip Kirby " inspired all the soap opera style strips of the fifties and sixties ".

Biographer Richard Hough writes that " even from their infancy, it was plainly evident that the elder son took after his father, in character and appearance, while Albert strongly resembled his mother in most respects ".

" Biographer Noel Gerson calls the characters in La Cousine Bette " among the most memorable Balzac ever sketched ".

Biographer Graham Robb calls La Cousine Bette " the masterpiece of his premature old age ".

Biographer Paul Trynka has written that The Idiot " would remain an album that was more respected than loved, the reviews mostly neutral " but that it " prefigured the soul of post-punk ".

Biographer Jeffrey Meyers called it Poe's " most turgid and opaque poem ".

Biographer and critic Alexander Skabichevsky, having found similarities in the development of Pisemsky and Saltykov-Schedrin, another author who examined the provincial bureaucracy in the times of " total corruption, embezzlement, no laws for landowners, wild atrocities, and a total lack of real state power "; times when " provincial life was mostly uncultured and lacked even basic morality ", and " the life of the intelligent classes had the character of one wanton, never ending orgy ", concluded: " Both writers lost all motivation not just for the idealization of Russian life, but also of highlighting its lighter, positive sides ".

Biographer Lou Cannon would later describe the missive as " one of the few foreign policy documents composed by Reagan ... without the assistance of speechwriters or formal position papers from his various departments ".