Lyndall Gordon

Lyndall Gordon

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)

External links

* [http://www.lyndallgordon.net]


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