Hollingworth Essay

Certainly there is no objective truth when reporting history for every approach has a purpose and will be shaded by this purpose. Hollingworth as a biographer has envisioned his task as relaying the many facets of his deceased wife’s personality as a gifted child, loving wife, compassionate teacher, sharp researcher, and poetic woman. His view of course is distorted for he was her loving husband who had a preconceived idea of her greatness and what her influences were. His historical accounts are different than most because they rely on her old writings and conversations with him. Even though these are an interesting source they should not be the only source. More of what others could have added might have helped fill the story out.

All of the biography was very flattering coming from her loving husb...