Lydall gordon virginia woolf biography

South African writer

Lyndall Gordon (born 4 November 1941)^[1] is a British-based biographical and former academic writer, known for her literary biographies. She is a senior research fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford.^[2]

Life

Born in Cape Town, she had her undergraduate studies at the University of Cape Town and her doctorate at Columbia University in New York City.

She is married to pathologist, Siamon Gordon; they have two daughters.^{[citation needed]}

Gordon is the author of Eliot's Early Years (1977), which won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize;^[3]Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (1984), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (1994), winner of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature; and Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, shortlisted for the BBC FourSamuel Johnson Prize.

Her most recent publications are Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinso Virginia Woolf : Vida de una escritora - Google Books KOZY