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Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary (2017)
Book Chapter
Hurley, U. (2017). Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary. In Experiments in Life-Writing (249-272). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55414-3

This chapter offers a practice-based account of a biography-in-progress. When attempts to write a conventional literary biography of Renaissance playwright Elizabeth Cary (1584–1639) foundered, I developed an experimental form in order to accommodate... Read More about Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary.

Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary (2017)
Book Chapter
Hurley, U. (2017). Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary. In L. Boldrini, & J. Novak (Eds.), Experiments in Life-Writing : Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction (249-272). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55414-3_11

This chapter offers a practice-based account of a biography-in-process. It unfolds a narrative of 'accidental experiment', as attempts to write a conventional literary biography of Cary (1584 – 1639) foundered. That is to say, the project did not set... Read More about Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary.

"Description" (2017)
Book Chapter
Hurley, U. (2017). "Description". In R. Graham (Ed.), How to Write A Short Story (And Think About It). Palgrave Macmillan

Writers have been creating virtual realities since before computers were even dreamed of. Good fiction conjures an alternative world, gives you a window into someone else’s life, takes you somewhere other. Above all, it’s convincing. Effective descri... Read More about "Description".