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Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter by Lyndall Gordon
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'As a child, I'm to be my mother's "sister" because she wants one so. My part is to be there if she's ill. At four years old, it's a privilege to have this responsibility instead of trotting off to nursery school like other children.' So begins the renowned and award-wining biographer's book about her o ...Show more
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon
39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
* The acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft, T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf and Henry James, turns now to the life of Emily Dickinson, one of America's best-loved poets
Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon
28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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 gen ...Show more
Outsiders - Five Women Writers who Changed the World - Virginia Woolf, Olive Schreiner,George Eliot, Emily Bronte, Mary Shelley by Lyndall Gordon
38.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, 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 ...Show more
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse by Lyndall Gordon
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The loves inextricable from his poetry, especially the one kept secret. Among the greatest of poets, T.S. Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives and a churchgoing companion. Yet he concealed a longtime love for an obscure American: Emily Hale, a drama teacher ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Lyndall Gordon
36.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
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 infinite oddity of the human position'. ...Show more
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