Lyndall Gordon

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Name Lyndall Gordon		Role Writer

Education Columbia University, University of Cape Town Books Lives Like Loaded Guns: Em, Divided Lives: Dreams o, TS Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Vindication Similar People T S Eliot, Balachandra Rajan, James Olney

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Lyndall Gordon (born 4 November 1941) is a British-based writer and academic, known for her literary biographies. She is a Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

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Life

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Born in Cape Town, she was an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town, then a doctoral student at Columbia University in New York City. She married the pathologist Siamon Gordon; they have two daughters.

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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 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.

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, Vintage, 1999, ISBN 978-0-09-938611-7

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 Daughter 2014

References

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