- Winifred Gérin
Winifred Eveleen Gérin, OBE (
7 October 1901 –28 June 1981 ) was an English biographer born inHamburg . She is best known as a biographer of theBrontë sisters and their brother Branwell, whose lives she researched extensively. "Charlotte Brontë: the Evolution of Genius" (1967) is regarded as her seminal work and received theJames Tait Black Memorial Prize , the Rose Mary Crawshay prize and the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann prize.Awards and distinctions
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1967)
*Rose Mary Crawshay prize (1967)
*Royal Society of Literature Heinemann prize (1967)
*Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1968)
*OBE (1975)Works
*"Anne Brontë", Thomas Nelson, 1959
*"Branwell Bronte", Thomas Nelson, 1961
*"Charlotte Brontë : the evolution of genius", Clarendon, 1967
*"Horatia Nelson ", Clarendon, 1970
*"Emily Brontë : a biography" Clarendon, 1971
*"Elizabeth Gaskell : a biography", Clarendon, 1976
*"Ann Thackeray Ritchie : a biography", Oxford University Press, 1981External links
* [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=stripbooks&field-keywords=winifred%20gerin&results-process=default&dispatch=search/ref=pd_sl_aw_tops-2_stripbooks_200935615_2&results-process=default Gerin's publications at Amazon.com]
* [http://oxforddnb.com/index/101031141/ Gerin's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]
* [http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/charweb/BRONTEBI.htm A University of Michigan comparison of biographies of Charlotte Bronte]
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