Lyndall Gordon
Lyndall Gordon (born 4 November 1941)[1] is a British-based biographical and former academic writer, known for her literary biographies. She is a senior research fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford.[2]
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Life
Born in Cape Town, she had her undergraduate studies at the University of Cape Town and her doctorate at Columbia University in New York City. She is married to pathologist 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;[3] 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; and Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, shortlisted for the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize. Her most recent publications are Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family's Feuds (2010), which has challenged the established assumptions about the poet's life;[4] Shared Lives: Growing Up in 50s Cape Town (D. Philip Publishers, 1992); Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter (London: Virago, 2014); and Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World (London: Virago, 2017).
Works
- Eliot's Early Years. Oxford University Press, 1977. ISBN 978-0-19-812078-0
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- Eliot's New Life. Oxford University Press, 1988
- Shared Lives. Norton, 1992. ISBN 978-0-393-03164-5
- Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life Chatto & Windus, 1994. ISBN 978-0-7011-6137-8; Little, Brown Book Group, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7481-1453-5
- A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art. Chatto & Windus, 1998. ISBN 978-0701161668. Also titled Henry James: His Women and His Art. Virago, 2012, ISBN 978-1-84408-892-8
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- Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter, 2014
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External links
- Articles with short description
- Living people
- South African biographers
- Women biographers
- South African women writers
- English biographers
- University of Cape Town alumni
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- Writers from Cape Town
- Columbia University alumni
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients
- 1941 births
- 20th-century South African women writers
- 20th-century biographers
- 21st-century South African women writers
- 21st-century biographers
- Mary Wollstonecraft scholars
