Lyndall Gordon, Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. 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.
This event took place November 8, 2020.
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published: 29 Dec 2020
CLF 2022: TS Eliot's Hidden Muse with Lyndall Gordon and Bill Goldstein
TS Eliot's Hidden Muse debuted on-stage at the Dock Street Theatre on Sunday, November 13, 2022, as part of the Charleston Literary Festival in South Carolina. In The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse, British biographer Lyndall Gordon draws on dramatic new material – 1,131 recently unsealed letters he wrote to Emily Hale – to reveal a hidden Eliot. Born and educated in America, Eliot met Emily Hale, a drama teacher, before he left for Europe in his early 20s. They continued their relationship by letter and occasional meetings over 25 years and she inspired some of his most famous poems. Lyndall Gordon discusses with Bill Goldstein, author of The World Broke in Two, the new light the letters shed on Eliot and his work.
00:00-3:00 Introduction
3:00-17:00 Speaker Presentation
17:00-54...
published: 01 Feb 2023
Lyndall Gordon on leaving Cape Town
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published: 11 Nov 2014
Lyndall Gordon says her writing career was influenced by her mother's poetry
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published: 11 Nov 2014
Lyndall Gordon how they find out her mother's sickness divided lines
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published: 11 Nov 2014
Lyndall Gordon talks about a book that she is working on now
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published: 11 Nov 2014
A Memoir of Another: Dr Lyndall Gordon on the Quest for Subjective Objectivity in Literary Biography
In this podcast, Dr Lyndall Gordon from the University of Oxford delves into the delicate balance between subjectivity and objectivity in the realm of literary biography. She reflects on biography as a form of detective work, translation, and a labour of passion and curiosity.
*About the Guest:*
Dr Lyndall Gordon is an accomplished biographer of literary figures including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Mary Wollstonecraft, among others. Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, she pursued her academic journey in New York City, focusing on 19th Century American Literature at Columbia University before settling in Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow at St. Hilda's College. In addition to her biographical works, Dr. Gordon is an author of memoirs, with two already published and a third curr...
published: 24 Apr 2024
Award winning biographer Lyndall Gordon talks to us about Divided Lives
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published: 11 Nov 2014
Lyndall Gordon speaks to us about the dramatic beginning of her memoir Divided Lines
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Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. Prodigy...
Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. 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.
This event took place November 8, 2020.
Full details: https://www.nysoclib.org/events/lyndall-gordon-outsiders-five-women-writers-who-changed-world
Support Library events: https://www.nysoclib.org/members/make-donation
Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. 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.
This event took place November 8, 2020.
Full details: https://www.nysoclib.org/events/lyndall-gordon-outsiders-five-women-writers-who-changed-world
Support Library events: https://www.nysoclib.org/members/make-donation
TS Eliot's Hidden Muse debuted on-stage at the Dock Street Theatre on Sunday, November 13, 2022, as part of the Charleston Literary Festival in South Carolina. ...
TS Eliot's Hidden Muse debuted on-stage at the Dock Street Theatre on Sunday, November 13, 2022, as part of the Charleston Literary Festival in South Carolina. In The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse, British biographer Lyndall Gordon draws on dramatic new material – 1,131 recently unsealed letters he wrote to Emily Hale – to reveal a hidden Eliot. Born and educated in America, Eliot met Emily Hale, a drama teacher, before he left for Europe in his early 20s. They continued their relationship by letter and occasional meetings over 25 years and she inspired some of his most famous poems. Lyndall Gordon discusses with Bill Goldstein, author of The World Broke in Two, the new light the letters shed on Eliot and his work.
00:00-3:00 Introduction
3:00-17:00 Speaker Presentation
17:00-54:38 Conversation
54:38-59:00 Audience Q&A
59:00-1:00:18 Conclusion
TS Eliot's Hidden Muse debuted on-stage at the Dock Street Theatre on Sunday, November 13, 2022, as part of the Charleston Literary Festival in South Carolina. In The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse, British biographer Lyndall Gordon draws on dramatic new material – 1,131 recently unsealed letters he wrote to Emily Hale – to reveal a hidden Eliot. Born and educated in America, Eliot met Emily Hale, a drama teacher, before he left for Europe in his early 20s. They continued their relationship by letter and occasional meetings over 25 years and she inspired some of his most famous poems. Lyndall Gordon discusses with Bill Goldstein, author of The World Broke in Two, the new light the letters shed on Eliot and his work.
00:00-3:00 Introduction
3:00-17:00 Speaker Presentation
17:00-54:38 Conversation
54:38-59:00 Audience Q&A
59:00-1:00:18 Conclusion
In this podcast, Dr Lyndall Gordon from the University of Oxford delves into the delicate balance between subjectivity and objectivity in the realm of literary ...
In this podcast, Dr Lyndall Gordon from the University of Oxford delves into the delicate balance between subjectivity and objectivity in the realm of literary biography. She reflects on biography as a form of detective work, translation, and a labour of passion and curiosity.
*About the Guest:*
Dr Lyndall Gordon is an accomplished biographer of literary figures including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Mary Wollstonecraft, among others. Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, she pursued her academic journey in New York City, focusing on 19th Century American Literature at Columbia University before settling in Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow at St. Hilda's College. In addition to her biographical works, Dr. Gordon is an author of memoirs, with two already published and a third currently in progress.
Dr. Gordon's accolades include the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, the Southern Arts Prize, and the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. Additionally, her works have been shortlisted for prestigious awards such as the Duff Cooper Prize and Italy’s Comisso Prize for Biography.
*About the host:*
Daphne Adam is a recent graduate of the Master of Philosophy in English Studies at Queens' College, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on gender and women's studies, form in contemporary novels, and experimental literature.
In this podcast, Dr Lyndall Gordon from the University of Oxford delves into the delicate balance between subjectivity and objectivity in the realm of literary biography. She reflects on biography as a form of detective work, translation, and a labour of passion and curiosity.
*About the Guest:*
Dr Lyndall Gordon is an accomplished biographer of literary figures including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Mary Wollstonecraft, among others. Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, she pursued her academic journey in New York City, focusing on 19th Century American Literature at Columbia University before settling in Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow at St. Hilda's College. In addition to her biographical works, Dr. Gordon is an author of memoirs, with two already published and a third currently in progress.
Dr. Gordon's accolades include the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, the Southern Arts Prize, and the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. Additionally, her works have been shortlisted for prestigious awards such as the Duff Cooper Prize and Italy’s Comisso Prize for Biography.
*About the host:*
Daphne Adam is a recent graduate of the Master of Philosophy in English Studies at Queens' College, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on gender and women's studies, form in contemporary novels, and experimental literature.
Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. 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.
This event took place November 8, 2020.
Full details: https://www.nysoclib.org/events/lyndall-gordon-outsiders-five-women-writers-who-changed-world
Support Library events: https://www.nysoclib.org/members/make-donation
TS Eliot's Hidden Muse debuted on-stage at the Dock Street Theatre on Sunday, November 13, 2022, as part of the Charleston Literary Festival in South Carolina. In The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse, British biographer Lyndall Gordon draws on dramatic new material – 1,131 recently unsealed letters he wrote to Emily Hale – to reveal a hidden Eliot. Born and educated in America, Eliot met Emily Hale, a drama teacher, before he left for Europe in his early 20s. They continued their relationship by letter and occasional meetings over 25 years and she inspired some of his most famous poems. Lyndall Gordon discusses with Bill Goldstein, author of The World Broke in Two, the new light the letters shed on Eliot and his work.
00:00-3:00 Introduction
3:00-17:00 Speaker Presentation
17:00-54:38 Conversation
54:38-59:00 Audience Q&A
59:00-1:00:18 Conclusion
In this podcast, Dr Lyndall Gordon from the University of Oxford delves into the delicate balance between subjectivity and objectivity in the realm of literary biography. She reflects on biography as a form of detective work, translation, and a labour of passion and curiosity.
*About the Guest:*
Dr Lyndall Gordon is an accomplished biographer of literary figures including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Mary Wollstonecraft, among others. Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, she pursued her academic journey in New York City, focusing on 19th Century American Literature at Columbia University before settling in Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow at St. Hilda's College. In addition to her biographical works, Dr. Gordon is an author of memoirs, with two already published and a third currently in progress.
Dr. Gordon's accolades include the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, the Southern Arts Prize, and the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. Additionally, her works have been shortlisted for prestigious awards such as the Duff Cooper Prize and Italy’s Comisso Prize for Biography.
*About the host:*
Daphne Adam is a recent graduate of the Master of Philosophy in English Studies at Queens' College, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on gender and women's studies, form in contemporary novels, and experimental literature.