ABSTRACT
This chapter draws some interconnections among men and women of letters in biographical collections published in London, specifically those that portrayed literary homes. The Halls serve as well as any of their contemporaries to illustrate the apportionment of recognition among living or deadmen and women, as well as the customs of prosopography of writers, particularly the desire to locate a literary home. Victorian prosopographies of womenand men, designed as clustered eulogies, could not measure up by modernist standards, and are largely forgotten. Men of the Time notwithstanding, the year 1852 faced no shortage of celebrations of women; at least twenty-seven collections of female biography appeared. Men of the Time is the sort of just-the-facts compilation of half-lives that has become common in the succeeding century and more, from print to digital. Bates's version of the Maclise Gallery and Maginn text at first might appear to be a prosopography of men's literary clubs in early nineteenth-century London, though it features women.
