The death mask / Lyndall Gordon -- Personality rights / Andrew Wilson -- A narcissists's wedding / Graham Robb -- Confessions of a long-distance biographer / Robert Skidelsky -- A great house full of rooms / Hermione Lee -- A love triangle / Frances Wilson -- Pantherine / Jeremy Lewis -- Rebecca's ghost / Margaret Forster -- Breaking in / Andrew Motion -- Archives / Diarmaid MacCulloch -- Glendower's syndrome / Hilary Spurling -- The dictionary man / Brian Harrison -- Polar gap / Sara Wheeler -- Starting over / Claire Tomalin -- Ipplepen 269 / Mark Bostridge -- Optical research / Antonia Fraser -- Catching trout / Frances Spalding -- La-Si-Da / Andrew Roberts -- My race not to be the second primo / Ian Thomson -- Stuff with raw edges / Lucasta Miller -- No respect / John Sutherland -- Fever / Kathryn Hughes -- Caught in the net / Ann Wroe -- Finding a good woman / Michael Holroyd -- Brushstrokes / Ben Pimlott -- Baptism by fire / Fiona MacCarthy -- He put my brother in his book / D. J. Taylor -- Manuscript moments / Jenny Uglow -- Tarts / Jane Ridley -- The hand from the grave / Miranda Seymour -- Who is Sylvia? / Claire Harman -- Feeling byronic / T. J. Binyon -- Waiting for the biographer / Beryl Bainbridge.