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29 produkter
Hyacinth Girl
T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Inbunden, 2022
288 kr
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The revealing of T. S. Eliot's hidden muse - Emily Hale, the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem'Extraordinary... A rare work of sympathy and insight' Colm Tóibín'Gordon sifts through the documents with her customary care and delicacy' Frances Wilson, Telegraph'Thanks to Gordon's …
Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot
Häftad, 2012
179 kr
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The most authoritative life of Eliot ever written, by acclaimed biographer Lyndall GordonT. S. Eliot once spoke of a lifetime burning in every moment. He had the mind to conceive a perfect life, and he also had the honesty to admit he could not meet it.'He was a man of extremes whose deep flaws and …
Vindication
A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
E-bok, 2009
44 kr
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"Gordon relates Wollstonecraft''s story with the same potent mixture of passion and reason her subject personified . . . Wonderful, and deeply sobering." —New York Times Book ReviewThe founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman in Europe and America in her …
Virginia Woolf
A Writer''s Life
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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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 …
Shared Lives
Growing Up in 50s Cape Town
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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Lyndall Gordon, the acclaimed biographer of T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, grew up in Cape Town, South Africa in the 1950s. This intimate and moving memoir is the story of Rosie, Ellie, and Romy- her closest friends from childhood until their early deaths. Daughters of Jewish immigrants, these …
Vindication: A Life Of Mary Wollstonecraft
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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In this stunning new biography of the eighteenth-century writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Lyndall Gordon explores the life of a woman often criticised by biographers, historians and feminists alike. Gordon challenges such slanders, and portrays instead the genius of this extraordinary woman. The …
Outsiders
Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
E-bok, 2017
45 kr
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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 …
Outsiders
Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
Häftad, 2018
157 kr
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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 …
Hyacinth Girl
T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
E-bok, 2022
45 kr
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The revealing of the hidden muse - Emily Hale - the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem - who influenced the life and art of TS Eliot. Among the greatest of poets, T.S. Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives, Vivienne and Valerie, and a …
Hyacinth Girl
T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Häftad, 2023
157 kr
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The revealing of the hidden muse - Emily Hale - the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem - who influenced the life and art of TS Eliot.Among the greatest of poets, T.S. Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives, Vivienne and Valerie, and a …
The Hyacinth Girl
T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Häftad, 2022
213 kr
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Among the greatest of poets, TS Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives and a church-going companion. This presentation concealed a life-long love for an American: Emily Hale, a drama teacher to whom he wrote (and later suppressed) over a thousand letters. …
Charlotte Bronte
A Passionate Life
Häftad, 1996
379 kr
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This highly acclaimed biography looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones. Instead we see a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. Lyndall Gordon looks at the shared gifts and class ambitions of the …
Virginia Woolf
A Writer's Life
Häftad, 2001
334 kr
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"[T]he most informative, most nearly definitive, most judicious word on this major, modern writer."-Scott Elledge
Lives Like Loaded Guns
Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come to us as an odd and helpless woman living a life of self imposed seclusion. Lyndall Gordon sees instead a volcanic character living on her own terms and with a steely confidence in her own talent; a woman whose …
Charlotte Bront
A Passionate Life
E-bok, 2009
45 kr
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Winner of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature In this groundbreaking and unconventional biography, Lyndall Gordon dismantles the insistent image of Charlotte Bronte as a modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, revealing instead a strong and fiery woman who shaped her …
Divided Lives
Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter
E-bok, 2014
40 kr
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Lyndall Gordon was born in 1941 in Cape Town, a place from which `a ship takes fourteen days to reach anywhere that matters''. Born to a mother whose mysterious illness confined her for years to life indoors, Lyndall was her secret sharer, a child who grew to know life through books, story-telling …
Henry James
His Women and His Art
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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James''s friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson ended in 1894 when he tried to drown a boatload of her dresses in the Venetian lagoon; she had fallen to her death three months before. It was an elusive friendship that echoed his mysterious relationship with Minny Temple who had died twenty …
Vindication: A Life Of Mary Wollstonecraft
Häftad, 2006
369 kr
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In this stunning new biography of the eighteenth-century writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Lyndall Gordon explores the life of a woman often criticised by biographers, historians and feminists alike. Gordon challenges such slanders, and portrays instead the genius of this extraordinary woman. The …
Virginia Woolf
A Writer's Life
Häftad, 2006
339 kr
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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 …
Shared Lives
Growing Up in 50s Cape Town
Häftad, 2005
122 kr
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Lyndall Gordon, the acclaimed biographer of T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, grew up in Cape Town, South Africa in the 1950s. This intimate and moving memoir is the story of Rosie, Ellie, and Romy- her closest friends from childhood until their early deaths.Daughters of Jewish immigrants, these girls …
Lives Like Loaded Guns
Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
Häftad, 2011
179 kr
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Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come to us as an odd and helpless woman living a life of self imposed seclusion. Lyndall Gordon sees instead a volcanic character living on her own terms and with a steely confidence in her own talent; a woman whose …
Charlotte Brontë
A Passionate Life
Häftad, 2008
179 kr
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In this groundbreaking and unconventional biography, Lyndall Gordon dismantles the insistent image of Charlotte Bronte as a modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, revealing instead a strong and fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. …
Divided Lives
Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter
Häftad, 2015
122 kr
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Lyndall Gordon was born in 1941 in Cape Town, a place from which `a ship takes fourteen days to reach anywhere that matters'. Born to a mother whose mysterious illness confined her for years to life indoors, Lyndall was her secret sharer, a child who grew to know life through books, story-telling …
Henry James
His Women and His Art
Häftad, 2012
369 kr
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James's friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson ended in 1894 when he tried to drown a boatload of her dresses in the Venetian lagoon; she had fallen to her death three months before. It was an elusive friendship that echoed his mysterious relationship with Minny Temple who had died twenty years …
Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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The most authoritative life of Eliot ever written, by acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon T. S. Eliot once spoke of a lifetime burning in every moment. He had the mind to conceive a perfect life, and he also had the honesty to admit he could not meet it. ''He was a man of extremes whose deep flaws …
T.S. Eliot
An Imperfect Life
Häftad, 2000
316 kr
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In this "nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection" (The New Yorker), Gordon captures Eliot's "complex spiritual and artistic history . . . with tact, diligence, and subtlety" (Boston Globe). Drawing on recently discovered letters, she addresses in full the …
