Prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator and explorer. As society's
outsiders, the exceptional subjects of this study inspired a new
breed of women-and one another. Finalist of the PROSE Award for
Best Book in Literature by the Association of American Publishers
Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, 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, Bronte, 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
widespread abuse, we do more than read them; we listen and live
with their astonishing bravery and eloquence.
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