She attended Bryn Mawr college, and during her student years became a passionate, entertaining and voluminous letter writer.
Perhaps Shaw's most personally revealing and definitely most voluminous letter correspondence, though, was with his fellow playwright and intimate childhood friend, Mathew Edward McNulty.
Brinkley's book, written 30 years later, when most of Halberstam's interview subjects were no longer around, relies instead on voluminous letters and diaries.
He blasts her calm with a verbose, confident ardor that will ring vaguely familiar to anyone who has spent time with Lowell's voluminous letters.
She also holds a distinguished position in literary history: not only was she, as Virginia Woolf called her, the "mother of English fiction," she also wrote voluminous letters and diaries covering 70 years, which remain a hugely detailed record of 18th- and early 19th-century social life.
Despite the aggressive defense tactics and a voluminous letter-writing campaign directed at Medina, he stated "I will not be intimidated".
As a remarkable theologian, he was writing books (voluminous letters to Churches) for years during house-arrest in Rome, while appealing to Caesar's Court.
He began regularly dictating entries into his forbidden phone, and sneaking random paragraphs into voluminous love letters, while Alex did the editing and posting.
Like Dickens, Tomalin is fiercely energetic, and mordantly funny, but today she also has the slightly frail aspect of one who, having completed a vast undertaking (Dickens's life is so incredibly voluminous: his letters alone run to 12 volumes, each one some 800 pages long), now awaits the verdict of the various partisans who patrol this sacred ground.
But somehow he found time for travel, voluminous correspondence (no letter went unanswered) and hospitality in a succession of homes which he and his wife Helen stamped with what he smiled to hear described as their "team personality".
The best proof of his wide interests and affectionate nature lies in his voluminous correspondence: about 8,000 letters remain.
