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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the founder of modern feminism -- in her time, the most famous woman in Europe and America. In this exciting new biography, Lyndall Gordon proposes that at each stage of a passionate and courageous life -- as teacher, writer, lover, and traveler -- Mary Woll-stonecraft was an original. She had advanced ideas on education, and her views on single motherhood, family responsibilities, working life, domestic aff...

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language poet of his generation. His poems The Waste Land and Four Quartets are classics of the modernist canon, while his essays influenced a school of literary criticism. Raised in St. Louis, shaped by his youth in Boston, he reinvented himself as an Englishman after converting to the Anglican Church. Like the authoritative yet restrained voice in his pro...

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Among the greatest of poets, T. S. Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives, Vivienne and Valerie, and a church-going companion, Mary Trevelyan. This presentation concealed a life-long love for an American: Emily Hale, a drama teacher to whom he wrote (and later suppressed) over a thousand letters. Hale was the source of "memory and desire" in The Waste Land, she is the Hyacinth Girl.Drawing on the only...

Among the greatest of poets, T. S. Eliot guarded his privacy. In public he was attached to three women: two wives and a companion in prayer. But concealed was an almost life-long love for an American: Emily Hale, a drama teacher to whom he wrote (and later suppressed) over a thousand letters. Hale was the source of 'memory and desire' in The Waste Land, she is the Hyacinth Girl. Drawing on the dramatic new material, the recently unsealed 1, 13...

`Extraordinary. . . . a rare work of sympathy and insight. Lyndall Gordon's passionately intelligent engagement with the letters between T.S. Eliot and Emily Hale is matched by her close reading of Eliot's poems. Her ability to see both complexity and simplicity in the relationship between Eliot and Hale means that their entangled world comes fully alive in this brilliant book'-Colm Tóibín`The true nature of T.S. Eliot's love for his American ...

Today, following the tsunami of women's protest at widespread abuse, we do more than read them, we listen and live with their astonishing bravery and eloquence.

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Outsider', 'outlaw', 'outcast': a woman's reputation was her security and each of these five lost it. As writers, they made the outsider identity their own and wrote their novels of genius.They came, they saw and left us changed.'The work and lives of Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Mary Shelley, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf are well known. Gordon's thesis sets out just how original and brave they were - and at what cost. We owe them much' J...

Emily Dickinson è un'autrice esplosiva, un "vulcano silenzioso" che con la sua inarrestabile vena creativa ha rivoluzionato il linguaggio poetico. Eppure, finora della "bella di Amherst" sapevamo soprattutto che ha trascorso un'esistenza ritirata, quasi reclusa, scandita da rare apparizioni pubbliche. In questa biografia, Lyndall Gordon spinge il lettore a varcare la soglia delle mura domestiche di Emily Dickinson per addentrarsi nel...

From the renowned and award-winning biographer of Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and Mary Wollstonecraft among others, a universal story about mothers and daughters.

The founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman of her era. A brilliant, unconventional rebel vilified for her strikingly modern notions of education, family, work, and personal relationships, she nevertheless strongly influenced political philosophy in Europe and a newborn America. Now acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon mounts a spirited defense of this courageous woman whose reputation has suffered ...

In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother, Austin, began an adulterous love affair with the accomplished and ravishing Mabel Todd, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. Award-winning biographer Gordon tells the story of the feud that erupted, and that still continues today.

[M]easured, and brave in its imaginative interpretations."-Carolyn Heilbrun, The New York Times Book Review This "original, intuitive, and even exciting" (The New Yorker) portrait highlights the experiences that shaped Virginia Woolf's life and art-her childhood, her relationships with her father and sister, her marriage, and her descents into madness.

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A heartfelt tribute to three women who left nothing but their stories, letters, and memories reveals the significance of their lives, their hidden possibilities, and, most importantly, the redemptive power of friendship between women.

Her thesis is that there were two women in James's life whose influence was so profound that they can be seen as partners, even collaborators in his art. Their ties to him were not sexual but imaginative, and their force was exerted posthumously: they were ghostly collaborators . . . all Jamesians will want to read Lyndall Gordon, for the breadth of her knowledge and sympathies, for the way she makes us think again about Henry James, and for h...