Divided Lives by Lyndall Gordon
From the renowned and award-winning biographer of Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and Mary Wollstonecraft among others, a universal story about mothers and daughters.
Lyndall Gordon manages to avoid being undaughterly about her exciting, difficult, self-obsessed mother. . as racy as a novel * Guardian *
A biographer with soul, she reaches into the hearts of those she brings alive for us. She makes the meaning of their lives sing and sweat as she invites us into their experiences, their longings, their struggles and their disappointments . . . [a] fascinating mix between memoir and biography * Observer *
[A] beautifully written and troubling memoir * Independent on Sunday *
[A] sensitive exploration of the complexities of motherhood and daughterhood * Sunday Times *
This quietly devastating book takes us into many strange terrains but it is to the 'inner life of that room' in Cape Town that Gordon finds herself returning. It was there she fountained into one of our most sensitive writers * Mail on Sunday *
In Divided Lives, [Gordon] devotes to her mother the kind of care and attention she has previously devoted to the Modernists, and - goodness knows! - her mother, Rhoda, certainly deserves it * Literary Review *
Lyndall Gordon's intrepid and astute biographies of writers . . . frequently yield insights that have eluded previous scholars . . . Now Gordon brings her gift for uncovering startling truths to bear on her own upbringing in 1950s and 60s South Africa * Times Literary Supplement *
Memoir of the year? Divided Lives, Lyndall Gordon's enthralling and painful account of her relationship with her mother -- Elizabeth Lowry * Times Literary Supplement *
A wonderful read that's both frank and delicate * Sunday Herald *
A biographer with soul, she reaches into the hearts of those she brings alive for us. She makes the meaning of their lives sing and sweat as she invites us into their experiences, their longings, their struggles and their disappointments . . . [a] fascinating mix between memoir and biography * Observer *
[A] beautifully written and troubling memoir * Independent on Sunday *
[A] sensitive exploration of the complexities of motherhood and daughterhood * Sunday Times *
This quietly devastating book takes us into many strange terrains but it is to the 'inner life of that room' in Cape Town that Gordon finds herself returning. It was there she fountained into one of our most sensitive writers * Mail on Sunday *
In Divided Lives, [Gordon] devotes to her mother the kind of care and attention she has previously devoted to the Modernists, and - goodness knows! - her mother, Rhoda, certainly deserves it * Literary Review *
Lyndall Gordon's intrepid and astute biographies of writers . . . frequently yield insights that have eluded previous scholars . . . Now Gordon brings her gift for uncovering startling truths to bear on her own upbringing in 1950s and 60s South Africa * Times Literary Supplement *
Memoir of the year? Divided Lives, Lyndall Gordon's enthralling and painful account of her relationship with her mother -- Elizabeth Lowry * Times Literary Supplement *
A wonderful read that's both frank and delicate * Sunday Herald *
Lyndall Gordon was born in Cape Town and studied American Literature at Columbia University in New York. She came to England through the Rhodes Trust in 1973. She is the prize-winning author of biographies including The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot; Henry James: His Women and his Art; Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life; Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life; Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family Feuds and Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World. There are also two memoirs, Shared Lives, A Story of Women's Friendship, and Divided Lives, about her mother, whose spiritual journey opened up Eliot's poetry for her. She has written the 'Life' for the Eliot website: tseliot.com. Lyndall Gordon is a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844088911 |
| ISBN 10 | 184408891X |
| Title | Divided Lives |
| Author | Lyndall Gordon |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2015-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Warwick Prize for Writing 2015 (UK) |
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