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Lyndall Gordon

Outsiders

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Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders, award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future.
We have long known the individual greatness of each of these writers, but in linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share. All five lost their mothers in childbirth or at a young age. With no female role model present, they learned from books—and sometimes from an enlightened mentor. Crucially, each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of her own. The passion in their own lives infused their fiction….
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  • daryaцитирует3 года назад
    No one, of course, can explain genius.
  • daryaцитирует3 года назад
    In a period when a woman’s reputation was her treasured security, each of these five lost it.
  • daryaцитирует3 года назад
    The outsiders who have meant most to me tell us not who we are, but who we might be.

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