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The article explores whether reality television personality Jade Goody should be included in the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography." It looks at whether Goody is a notable figure from popular culture to merit inclusion by looking at her personal and career background. It suggests that Goody should be added as she as the first person to achieve and sustain national fame as a reality TV star, and many women will benefit from her example and encouragement at the end of her life.

The article discusses the significance of the on-line and print editions of the book the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004-14" (ODNB). The article discusses the ODNB's relation to the book the "Dictionary of National Biography" (DNB) edited by Leslie Stephen, the commissioning of a new version of the DNB beginning in 1992 by the publisher Oxford University Press, and the process utilized to choose entrants to the ODNB.

The article focuses on the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB). According to the author, Lord Roseberry described DNB as the greatest literary monument of the Victorian age. It is a characteristically Victorian production as agreed by critics and historians. Its coverage was deliberately extended until the last day of 1900 including at a memoir of Queen Victoria, who died on January 22, 1901, and therefore, furnished a better historical landmark