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- ISBN 9781844084722
- Weight: 334g
- Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 04 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature
In this groundbreaking and unconventional biography, Lyndall Gordon dismantles the insistent image of Charlotte Bronte as a modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, revealing instead a strong and fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art.
'An exemplary biography' Jan Marsh, New Statesman
'Brilliant and powerful... Gordon brings us the closest we are ever likely to get to an understanding of the source of Charlotte Bronte's creative genius' Mark Bostridge, TES
'Sensitive, open-minded, vivid, full of psychological insight' Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times
'Magnificent... Gordon's best book and the best thing about Charlotte Bronte yet' Fiona MacCarthy, Observer
Lyndall Gordon was born in Cape Town and studied American Literature at Columbia University in New York. She came to England through the Rhodes Trust in 1973.
She is the prize-winning author of biographies including The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot; Henry James: His Women and his Art; Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life; Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life; Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family Feuds and Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World. There are also two memoirs, Shared Lives, A Story of Women's Friendship, and Divided Lives, about her mother, whose spiritual journey opened up Eliot's poetry for her. She has written the 'Life' for the Eliot website: tseliot.com.
Lyndall Gordon is a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Oxford.
