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The Resource Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon

Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon

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Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In "Outsiders", award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future. We have long known the individual greatness of each of these writers, but in linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share. All five lost their mothers in childbirth or at a young age. With no female role model present, they learned from books - and sometimes from an enlightened mentor. Crucially, each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of her own. The passion in their own lives infused their fiction. Writing with passionate intelligence of her own, Gordon reveals that these renegade writers inspired a new breed of women who wished to change a world locked in war, violence, exploitation and sexual abuse. Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised. In "Outsiders", she crafts nuanced portraits of Shelley, Brontë, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf, naming each of these writers as prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw, ' orator and explorer, and shows how they came, they saw and they left us changed. Today, following the tsunami of women's protest at wide-spread abuse, we do more than read them; we listen and live with their astonishing bravery and eloquence. -- inside cover
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eng
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338 pages
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  • First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Virago Press. First published in the United States in 2019 by John Hopkins University Press
  • Copyright © Lyndall Gordon 2017, 2019
  • Includes index
Contents
  • Contents: List of illustrations
  • Foreword
  • 1. Prodigy - Mary Shelley
  • 2. Visionary - Emily Brontë
  • 3. 'Outlaw' - George Eliot
  • 4. Orator - Olive Schreiner
  • 5. Explorer - Virginia Woolf
  • The Outsiders Society
  • Sources
  • Further reading
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index
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9781421429441
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Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world
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Outsiders
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five women writers who changed the world
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Lyndall Gordon
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Outsiders : 5 women writers who changed the world
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eng
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Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In "Outsiders", award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future. We have long known the individual greatness of each of these writers, but in linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share. All five lost their mothers in childbirth or at a young age. With no female role model present, they learned from books - and sometimes from an enlightened mentor. Crucially, each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of her own. The passion in their own lives infused their fiction. Writing with passionate intelligence of her own, Gordon reveals that these renegade writers inspired a new breed of women who wished to change a world locked in war, violence, exploitation and sexual abuse. Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised. In "Outsiders", she crafts nuanced portraits of Shelley, Brontë, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf, naming each of these writers as prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw, ' orator and explorer, and shows how they came, they saw and they left us changed. Today, following the tsunami of women's protest at wide-spread abuse, we do more than read them; we listen and live with their astonishing bravery and eloquence. -- inside cover
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collective biography
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Gordon, Lyndall
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  • 820
  • 928.20
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non fiction
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Johns Hopkins University
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  • Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Eliot, George
  • Brontë, Emily
  • Schreiner, Olive
  • Woolf, Virginia
  • Women authors
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Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon
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  • First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Virago Press. First published in the United States in 2019 by John Hopkins University Press
  • Copyright © Lyndall Gordon 2017, 2019
  • Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
Contents: List of illustrations -- Foreword -- 1. Prodigy - Mary Shelley -- 2. Visionary - Emily Brontë -- 3. 'Outlaw' - George Eliot -- 4. Orator - Olive Schreiner -- 5. Explorer - Virginia Woolf -- The Outsiders Society -- Sources -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Index
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on1057740178
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25 cm
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338 pages
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9781421429441
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2018955300
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rdamedia
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  • n
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illustrations
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Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Virago Press. First published in the United States in 2019 by John Hopkins University Press
  • Copyright © Lyndall Gordon 2017, 2019
  • Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
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  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Contents: List of illustrations -- Foreword -- 1. Prodigy - Mary Shelley -- 2. Visionary - Emily Brontë -- 3. 'Outlaw' - George Eliot -- 4. Orator - Olive Schreiner -- 5. Explorer - Virginia Woolf -- The Outsiders Society -- Sources -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Index
Control code
on1057740178
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
338 pages
Isbn
9781421429441
Lccn
2018955300
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
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illustrations

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