The Resource Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon
Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon
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The item Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- 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. Writing with passionate intelligence of her own, Gordon reveals that these renegade writers inspired a new breed of women who wished to change a world locked in war, violence, exploitation and sexual abuse. Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised. In "Outsiders", she crafts nuanced portraits of Shelley, Brontë, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf, naming each of these writers as prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator and explorer, and shows how they came, they saw and they left us changed. Today, following the tsunami of women's protest at wide-spread abuse, we do more than read them; we listen and live with their astonishing bravery and eloquence. -- inside cover
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 338 pages
- Note
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- First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Virago Press. First published in the United States in 2019 by John Hopkins University Press
- Copyright © Lyndall Gordon 2017, 2019
- Includes index
- Contents
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- Contents: List of illustrations
- Foreword
- 1. Prodigy - Mary Shelley
- 2. Visionary - Emily Brontë
- 3. 'Outlaw' - George Eliot
- 4. Orator - Olive Schreiner
- 5. Explorer - Virginia Woolf
- The Outsiders Society
- Sources
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Isbn
- 9781421429441
- Label
- Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world
- Title
- Outsiders
- Title remainder
- five women writers who changed the world
- Statement of responsibility
- Lyndall Gordon
- Title variation
- Outsiders : 5 women writers who changed the world
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. Writing with passionate intelligence of her own, Gordon reveals that these renegade writers inspired a new breed of women who wished to change a world locked in war, violence, exploitation and sexual abuse. Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised. In "Outsiders", she crafts nuanced portraits of Shelley, Brontë, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf, naming each of these writers as prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator and explorer, and shows how they came, they saw and they left us changed. Today, following the tsunami of women's protest at wide-spread abuse, we do more than read them; we listen and live with their astonishing bravery and eloquence. -- inside cover
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gordon, Lyndall
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR115
- LC item number
- .G65 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Johns Hopkins University
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
- Eliot, George
- Brontë, Emily
- Schreiner, Olive
- Woolf, Virginia
- Women authors
- Label
- Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon
- Note
-
- First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Virago Press. First published in the United States in 2019 by John Hopkins University Press
- Copyright © Lyndall Gordon 2017, 2019
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Contents: List of illustrations -- Foreword -- 1. Prodigy - Mary Shelley -- 2. Visionary - Emily Brontë -- 3. 'Outlaw' - George Eliot -- 4. Orator - Olive Schreiner -- 5. Explorer - Virginia Woolf -- The Outsiders Society -- Sources -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Index
- Control code
- on1057740178
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 338 pages
- Isbn
- 9781421429441
- Lccn
- 2018955300
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1057740178
- Label
- Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon
- Note
-
- First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Virago Press. First published in the United States in 2019 by John Hopkins University Press
- Copyright © Lyndall Gordon 2017, 2019
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Contents: List of illustrations -- Foreword -- 1. Prodigy - Mary Shelley -- 2. Visionary - Emily Brontë -- 3. 'Outlaw' - George Eliot -- 4. Orator - Olive Schreiner -- 5. Explorer - Virginia Woolf -- The Outsiders Society -- Sources -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Index
- Control code
- on1057740178
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 338 pages
- Isbn
- 9781421429441
- Lccn
- 2018955300
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1057740178
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