Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world / Lyndall Gordon.
Publisher: London : Virago Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780349006345
- Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880
- Bronte, Emily, 1818-1848
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
- Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880
- Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
- Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
- Bronte, Emily, 1818-1848
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
- Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
- Women authors -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Women authors -- 19th century -- Biography
- Women authors -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Women authors, South African -- Biography
- Authors, English -- Biography
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- History and criticism
- Women authors, English -- Biography
- Women authors
- Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography
- Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography
- Women novelists, English -- Biography
- Women authors -- Biography
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 809.3 GOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 90624 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prodigy, Mary Shelly -- Visionary, Emily Brontë -- 'Outlaw', George Eliot -- Orator, Olivia Schreiner -- Explorer, Virginia Woolf -- The Outsiders Society.
"Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels. We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the genius they share. 'Outsider', 'outlaw', 'outcast': a woman's reputation was her security and each of these five lost it. As writers, they made these identities their own, taking advantage of their separation from the dominant order to write their novels. All five were motherless. With no female model at hand, they learnt from books; and if lucky, from an enlightened man; and crucially each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of their own. They understood female desire: the passion and sexual bravery in their own lives infused their fictions. What they have in common also is the way they inform one another, and us, across the generations. Even today we do more than read them; we listen and live with them. Lyndall Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised and much read and enjoyed. She names each of these five as prodigy, visionary, outlaw, orator and explorer and shows how they came, they saw and left us changed."--Publisher website.
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