Winifred Eveleen Gérin, OBE (7 October 1901 – 28 June 1981) was an English biographer born in Hamburg. She is best known as a biographer of the Brontë sisters and their brother Branwell, whose lives she researched extensively. Charlotte Brontë: the Evolution of Genius (1967) is regarded as her seminal work and received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann prize.
| Awards and achievements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by |
Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 1967 |
Succeeded by Kate Flint Ruth Smith |