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Outsiders - Five Women Writers Who Changed the World (Hardcover)
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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 genius they share. 'Outsider',
'outlaw', 'outcast': a woman's reputation was her security and each
of these five lost it. As writers, they made these identities their
own, taking advantage of their separation from the dominant order
to write their novels. All five were motherless. With no female
model at hand, they learnt from books; and if lucky, from an
enlightened man; and crucially each had to imagine what a woman
could be in order to invent a voice of their own. They understood
female desire: the passion and sexual bravery in their own lives
infused their fictions. What they have in common also is the way
they inform one another, and us, across the generations. Even today
we do more than read them; we listen and live with them. Lyndall
Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection
between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach
that has been highly praised and much read and enjoyed. She names
each of these five as prodigy, visionary, outlaw, orator and
explorer and shows how they came, they saw and left us changed.
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