psychography

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Bradford

  • In Gamaliel Bradford

    …a biographer who cultivated “psychography,” a new type of biographical writing that sought to portray the inner life of the subject by a skillful selection of important and interesting traits. Lee the American (1912) was the first of a series of successful “psychographs,” which included Portraits of Women (1916)…

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