Lyndall Gordon
Lyndall Gordon is a South African writer and academic, known for her literary biographies. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford. [1]
Life
Born in Cape Town, she was an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town, then a doctoral student at Columbia University. She married Siamon Gordon; they have two daughters.
Gordon is the author of Eliot's Early Years (1977), which won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize. [2] She also wrote Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (1984), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (1994), winner of the Cheltenham prize for literature. Her most recent publication is Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family's Feuds (2010), which has overturned the established assumptions about the poet's life. [3]
Works
- Eliot's Early Years Oxford University Press, 1977, ISBN 9780198120780
- Eliot's New Life Oxford University Press, 1988
- T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life. W. W. Norton & Company. 1999. ISBN 9780393320930. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ndb_HDuycu0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Lyndall+Gordon&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pi7yTpXLNert0gHH0fGbAg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Lyndall%20Gordon&f=false.
- Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life. Oxford University Press. 1984. ISBN 9780198117230. http://books.google.com/books?id=Kkd3HK1At1sC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Lyndall+Gordon&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pi7yTpXLNert0gHH0fGbAg&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Lyndall%20Gordon&f=false. ; W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, ISBN 9780393322057
- Shared Lives Norton, 1992, ISBN 9780393031645;
- Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life Chatto & Windus, 1994, ISBN 9780701161378; Little, Brown Book Group, 2009, ISBN 9780748114535
- A private life of Henry James: two women and his art, Vintage, 1999, ISBN 9780099386117
- Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft. HarperCollins. 2005. ISBN 9780060198022. http://books.google.com/books?id=YGSV8ihuJfcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Lyndall+Gordon&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pi7yTpXLNert0gHH0fGbAg&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Lyndall%20Gordon&f=false. ; 2006, ISBN 9780060957742
- Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family's Feuds. Penguin. 2010. ISBN 9780670021932. http://books.google.com/books?id=7rT-zVzTX0UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Lyndall+Gordon&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pi7yTpXLNert0gHH0fGbAg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Lyndall%20Gordon&f=false.
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