ought-not-to-biographies

Updated: May 11, 2025

She was a witty woman who divided autobiographies into two classes... autobiographies and ought-not-to-biographies but I am sure she never attempted to write one herself. There is so much in one's life that looms large from a personal point of view about which other people would care little, and the difficulty often arises, not so much about what to put in as what to leave out.

Catherine Helen Spence - An Autobiography