Télécharger le livre :  The Hyacinth Girl
The revealing of the hidden muse - Emily Hale - the Hyacinth Girl of the famousThe Waste Land poem - who influenced the life and art of TS Eliot.Among the greatest of poets, T.S. Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives, Vivienne...

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Parution : 2022-10-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Outsiders
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...

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Parution : 2017-10-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Vindication: A Life Of Mary Wollstonecraft
In this stunning new biography of the eighteenth-century writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Lyndall Gordon explores the life of a woman often criticised by biographers, historians and feminists alike. Gordon challenges such slanders, and portrays instead the genius of this...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2014-07-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Virginia Woolf
This prize-winning biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an explorer of 'the...

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Parution : 2014-07-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Divided Lives
Lyndall Gordon was born in 1941 in Cape Town, a place from which `a ship takes fourteen days to reach anywhere that matters'. Born to a mother whose mysterious illness confined her for years to life indoors,Lyndall was her secret sharer, a child who grew to know life...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2014-06-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Shared Lives
Lyndall Gordon, the acclaimed biographer of T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, grew up in Cape Town, South Africa in the 1950s. This intimate and moving memoir is the story of Rosie, Ellie, and Romy- her closest friends from childhood until their early deaths.Daughters of...

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Parution : 2014-06-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot
The most authoritative life of Eliot ever written, by acclaimed biographer Lyndall GordonT. S. Eliot once spoke of a lifetime burning in every moment. He had the mind to conceive a perfect life, and he also had the honesty to admit he could not meet it.'He was a man of...

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Parution : 2012-11-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Henry James
James's friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson ended in 1894 when he tried to drown a boatload of her dresses in the Venetian lagoon; she had fallen to her death three months before. It was an elusive friendship that echoed his mysterious relationship with Minny...

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Parution : 2012-11-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Lives Like Loaded Guns
Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come to us as an odd and helpless woman living a life of self imposed seclusion. Lyndall Gordon sees instead a volcanic character living on her own terms and with a steely confidence in...

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Parution : 2010-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Charlotte Brontë
Winner of the Cheltenham Prize for LiteratureIn this groundbreaking and unconventional biography, Lyndall Gordon dismantles the insistent image of Charlotte Bronte as a modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, revealing instead a strong and...

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Parution : 2009-12-03
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