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Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

by Lyndall Gordon (Author)

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: 01
 Publisher: Virago
Published: 26 Oct 2017
ISBN 10: 0349006342
ISBN 13: 9780349006345

Media Reviews
Gordon is a natural storyteller, and the lives stir us and fascinate us no matter how well we already know them . . . full of novelistic insight, pushing into the biographical material to substantiate her hunches, tracing patterns and repetitions in these writers' emotional lives and in their work -- Tessa Hadley * Guardian *
Gordon succeeds in showing not only the pain but the possibilities of the outsider . While distinctive in their voices, these writers converge in their hatred of our violent world , exposing domestic and systemic violence. Their strength of spirit shines from the pages and through the ages -- Anita Sethi * Observer *
Impeccably researched . . . an excellent read * The Lady *
Lyndall Gordon's empathetic commitment to the unfolding story in the lives of literary figures is central to her work * Daily Telegraph *
The work and lives of Emily Bronte, 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 -- Joan Bakewell * New Statesman *
In subtle and elegant interpretations, Gordon allows us to see their novels 'afresh'. The pattern she traces in their writing is equally striking: each woman refused, as Gordon puts it, 'to make terms with our violent world', and this is what makes their voices so modern . . . She is a biographer of the imagination as opposed to a recorder of historical facts. -- Frances Wilson * Mail on Sunday *
Thought-provoking . . . enticing -- Erica Wagner * New Statesman *

Gordon's book is a pertinent reminder of the risks each of them bravely faced in order to save themselves from
the fate of a Maggie Tulliver or a Judith Shakespeare and leave posterity with their remarkable works

* Literary Review *
Gordon rallies the reader to look to these five as the trailblazers and inspiration for our own lives. * Emerald Street *
Author Bio
Lyndall Gordon is the prizewinning author of biographies including CHARLOTTE BRONTE, VIRGINIA WOOLF, SHARED LIVES and MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Born and raised in South Africa, Lyndall is a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.