Lyndall Gordon

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Lyndall Gordon is a South African academic, known for her literary biographies. She was born in Cape Town and was an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town, then a doctoral student at Columbia University. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Her biographical work Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life was awarded the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Works

  • Eliot's Early Years (1977) on T. S. Eliot
  • Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (1984)
  • Eliot's New Life (1988)
  • Shared Lives (1992) autobiography
  • Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (1994)
  • A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art (1998)
  • T.S.Eliot: An Imperfect Life (1998) A combination and re-writing of two earlier works on Eliot
  • Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (2005)

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