Lyndall Gordon: 5 books

Emily Dickinson è un’autrice esplosiva, un “vulcano silenzioso” che con la sua inarrestabile vena creativa ha rivoluzionato il linguaggio poetico. Eppure, finora della “bella di Amherst” sapevamo soprattutto che ha trascorso un’esistenza ritirata, quasi reclusa, scandita da rare apparizioni...

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...

In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon,...

In un’epoca in cui la ricerca della visibilità e della fama personale sembra dettare lo spirito dei tempi, leggere la biografia di Charlotte Brontë è quanto mai illuminante. L’autrice del capolavoro Villette, di Shirley e Il professore, nonché di Jane Eyre, immediato successo all’epoca della...

The founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman of her era. A brilliant, unconventional rebel vilified for her strikingly modern notions of education, family, work, and personal relationships, she nevertheless strongly influenced political philosophy in Europe...