Lyndall Gordon

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.

Life

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.

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

Notes

External links

• Lyndall Gordon's official site