Lyndall Gordon (born 4 November 1941) 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.
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; 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 established assumptions about the poet's life; 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).
Gordon's most recent work is The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse (2022).
Works※
- Eliot's Early Years. Oxford University Press, 1977. ISBN 978-0-19-812078-0
- Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life. Oxford University Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-19-811723-0.; W. W. Norton & Company, "2001," ISBN 978-0-393-32205-7
- 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
- T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life. W.W. Norton & Company. 1999. ISBN 978-0-393-32093-0.
- Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft. HarperCollins. 2005. ISBN 978-0-06-019802-2. 2006. ISBN 978-0-06-095774-2
- Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds. Penguin. 2010. ISBN 978-0-670-02193-2.
- Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter. London: Virago, 2014.
- Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World. London: Virago, 2017.
- "Dreams of a Mother and Daughter," in Dale Salwak, ed. Writers and Their Mothers. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-68347-8
- The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse. London: 2022.
Notes※
- ^ "Gordon, Lyndall 1941-". Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series. 1 January 2007. Archived from the original on 28 March 2015 – via Highbeam.
- ^ Permanent Post Holders. "Gordon, Dr Lyndall | Faculty of English". English.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 6 February 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- ^ "Lyndall Gordon". Archived from the original on 8 July 2012.
- ^ "A bomb in her bosom: Emily Dickinson's secret life". The Guardian. 12 February 2010.
- ^ Gordon, Lyndall (1989). Eliot's early years. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-281252-0. OCLC 489896022.
- ^ "T.S. Eliot". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ Gordon, Lyndall (1977). Eliot's Early Years. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-812078-0.
- ^ Gordon, Lyndall (2006). Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life. Virago. ISBN 978-1-84408-142-4.
- ^ "Virginia Woolf". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ Gordon, Lyndall (1988). Eliot's New Life. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-811727-8.
- ^ Gordon, Lyndall (1994). Shared Lives. Vintage. ISBN 978-0-09-942461-1.
- ^ Gordon, Lyndall (1994). Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life. Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-0-7011-6137-8.
- ^ Gordon, Lyndall (17 March 2009). Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-095774-2.
- ^ Gordon, Lyndall (2005). Vindication: a life of Mary Wollstonecraft. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-019802-8. OCLC 57475923.
- ^ "Divided Lives review – Lyndall Gordon's struggle——to cut the cord". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ Gordon, Lyndall (2015). Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter. Little, Brown Book Group Limited. ISBN 978-1-84408-891-1.
- ^ Gordon, Lyndall (19 March 2019). Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World. JHU Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-2944-1.
- ^ "Outsiders by, Lyndall Gordon review – five women writers who changed the world". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ Gordon, Lyndall (2014). Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter. Virago. ISBN 978-1-84408-890-4.
External links※
- Living people
- South African biographers
- South African women biographers
- British women biographers
- 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 British biographers
- 21st-century South African women writers
- 21st-century British biographers
- Mary Wollstonecraft scholars