Bibliograph

Outsiders, five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon

Type

Label

Outsiders, five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Outsiders

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1057740178

Responsibility statement

Lyndall Gordon

Sub title

five women writers who changed the world

Summary

Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf. They all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. Gordon shows how, 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. In linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share, and how the passion in their own lives infused their fiction. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Prodigy - Mary Shelley -- Visionary - Emily Brontë -- 'Outlaw' - George Eliot -- Orator - Olive Schreiner -- Explorer - Virginia Woolf -- The Outsiders Society -- Sources -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Index

Target audience

adult

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