[Ads-l] How's that, again?

[Robin Hamilton]

Addison was preceded in that regard, and at greater length (in verse), by 
John Taylor the Water Poet, with his _A shilling or, The trauailes of 
twelue-pence_ in 1621.

One strand in the creation of the genre of the novel was the 
fictionalisation of memoir or autobiography, most notably (obviously) by 
Daniel Defoe in _Robinson Crusoe_, _Moll Flanders_, etc.

Robin Hamilton

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In 1710 there was the autobiography (untitled) of a twelve-penny (one shill=
ing) piece, recounting its "life and adventures" (mainly transactions).=C2=
=A0 This is oral history, as the shilling could not write, transcribed it i=
s believed by Joseph Addison.
Tatler No. 249, November 11, 1710.=20
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004786805.0001.000/1:64?rgn=3Ddiv1;view=
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Joel
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There was the porny "Autobiography of a Flea" in the 19th century. I've alw=
ays suspected there might have been at least a co-author (if not an outrigh=
t ghost writer) involved.

--Charlie

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Maybe it all started with "_The Autobiography of Malcolm X_, by Alex Haley.=
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Or "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein." (Rather more
obscure.)

Several Internet users (twelve years old, one hopes) ask, "Who wrote=C2=A0 =
The
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" or "of Mark Twain" or "of Charles
Darwin."

JL

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