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==Biography==
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{{newreview
|author=Chambers and Joan Bakewell
|title=Chambers Biographical Dictionary
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=It's now the ninth edition of this famous volume and that came as a bit of a shock when I glanced at the bookcase and realised that my copy dated back to 1974 and was still in regular use for a quick guide as to who might have been who. It's advertised as 'the great, the good, the not-so-great and the downright wicked' and it's difficult to better that summary. It has eighteen thousand biographies and differs from ''Who's Who'' with it's thirty thousand entries in that covers the dead as well as the living and the ''interesting'' rather than those who need to be included because they have achieved a certain position.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0550106936</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Claire Tomalin
