I wonder if anyone's ever done a meta-ish study of women writing women's biographies, especially of their semi-contemporaries--thinking of Winifred Holtby writing about Virginia Woolf, among others.

As it happens, I'm reading this enormous biography of Lytton Strachey at the moment, and there is so much of that going on at the margins of the story. Every bluestocking in London is writing a biography of every other! I do hope someone has done a great big network-analysis of all that.