How did you develop the structural solution that would allow personal presence without authorial intrusion?

It takes a lot of thought and I'm so aware of the fine line between putting yourself into a biography and not being self-indulgent, not making the biography about you.

Because I think I have read biographies where that has happened, I think, and I'm always very, very aware of not doing that.

But as a feminist biographer, in any of my books, I do...

Make my position clear in some way or other, because I do believe that a biographer comes into writing with a set of values through a certain prism of their own values and their own interests.

And what they see in archives is what they're looking for.

and they often don't see what they're not looking for.

Yes, sure.