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Charlotte Bronte : A Passionate Life (rev. ed. 2008) by Lyndall Gordon
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In this groundbreaking and unconventional biography, Lyndall Gordon dismantles the insistent image of Charlotte Bronte as a modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, revealing instead a strong and fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. First publish ...Show more
Henry James: His Women and His Art by Lyndall Gordon
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1894 Henry James tried to drown a boatload of dresses belonging to the writer Constance Fenimore Woolson in the Venetian lagoon. She had fallen to her death from her Venice window three months before. James's elusive friendship with Fenimore echoed his mysterious relationship with Minny Temple who ha ...Show more
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
* The acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft, T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf and Henry James, turns now to the life of Emily Dickinson, one of America's best-loved poets
Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels. We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the gen ...Show more
Outsiders - Five Women Writers who Changed the World - Virginia Woolf, Olive Schreiner,George Eliot, Emily Bronte, Mary Shelley by Lyndall Gordon
37.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels. We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the ...Show more
Shared Lives by Lyndall Gordon
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Lyndall Gordon, the acclaimed biographer of T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, grew up in Cape Town, South Africa in the 1950s. This intimate and moving memoir is the story of Rosie, Ellie, and Romy- her closest friends from childhood until their early deaths. Daughters of Jewish immigrants, these girls gre ...Show more
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse by Lyndall Gordon
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The loves inextricable from his poetry, especially the one kept secret. Among the greatest of poets, T.S. Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives and a churchgoing companion. Yet he concealed a longtime love for an obscure American: Emily Hale, a drama teacher ...Show more
The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot by Lyndall Gordon
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Highly acclaimed when it was first published, Virago now reissues Lyndall Gordon's wonderful biography, The Imperfect Life of T S Eliot. Exploring Eliot's poetry, drama and essays in relation to his life in America and England, and to four quite different women who offer clues to his guarded character, ...Show more
Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon
28.00 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In this stunning new biography of the eighteenth-century writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Lyndall Gordon explores the life of a woman often criticised by biographers, historians and feminists alike. Gordon challenges such slanders, and portrays instead the genius of this extraordinary woman. The two-generati ...Show more
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