Lyndall Gordon

Lyndall Gordon is the author of six biographies, including Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds and The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot, and two memoirs, Shared Lives: Growing up in 50s Cape Town and Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.

How Virginia Woolf Shunned—and Then Embraced—T.S. Eliot

Lyndall Gordon on the Rocky Beginnings of a Literary Friendship

November 23, 2022 By Lyndall Gordon

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Olive Schreiner: Charlotte Brontë of South Africa, 19th-Century Celebrity

On Compassion and Dissent in an Outpost of Empire

March 29, 2019 By Lyndall Gordon

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