This is the second excerpt from Writing Biography & Autobiography by Brian D Osborne.
We shall be running three excerpts from this title from the A & C Black Writing Handbooks series, by kind permission of the publisher.
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© Brian D Osborne 2016-16
'A projection back of modern sensibilities'
‘It's difficult, perhaps impossible, to write a character well in the past who is not a projection back of modern sensibilities. My defence would be that the 16th century was the time when rational, sceptical inquiry was beginning. This was the age of the humanists: we're leaving medieval thought patterns behind. Read more