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LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS: Emily Dickinson and her Family's Feuds
Non-Fiction (Literary Biography) 491 pages
Virago - February 4, 2010
‘Lyndall Gordon proposes a theory to account for the enigma of Emily Dickinson’s life as a notorious recluse which is so brilliant that, if this were a novel, a reviewer would be duty-bound not to reveal a thrilling twist…Unforcedly and powerfully original.’
--Caroline Moore, ‘Book of the Week’, Sunday Telegraph
‘As Gordon tells it, this story of the terrible fascination Dickinson exerted on her heirs is as rich as a novel by Henry James…Perhaps for the first time since Dickinson’s death, she invites us to meet the poet head-on.’
--Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Telegraph
‘A jolting and utterly intriguing watershed achievement.’
--Donna Seaman, Starred review, Booklist
A ground-breaking biography of American poet Emily Dickinson, following the vehement feud between the Dickinson family and Emily’s brother’s mistress after the enigmatic poet’s death, and uncovering stunning new material about Emily herself. 491pp. -
CHARLOTTE BRONTE: A Passionate Life
Non-Fiction (Literary Biography) 480 pages
Virago - September 4, 2008
‘This is a book full of brilliant suggestions which do engage our attention and interest from the first page to the last.’
--Claire Tomalin, Independent
‘A magnificent biography, focusing on the gaps and silences in Charlotte Bronte’s emotionally turbulent life… the best thing to be written about Charlotte Bronte yet.’
--Fiona MacCarthy, Observer
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VIRGINIA WOOLF: A Writer's Life
Non-Fiction (Literary Biography) 370 pages
Virago - January 17, 2007
Winner of the James Tait Black prize for biography
'A masterpiece of the kind of intuitive biography in which Virginia Woolf herself believed.' -- Times Higher Educational Supplement
Biography
A much-celebrated biographer, Lyndall Gordon lives in Oxford. Her ability to make the subjects of her biographies come vividly to life has won her many literary awards, including the Cheltenham Prize and the James Tait Black prize. She has also been long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
Her ninth book, LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS: Emily Dickinson and her Family’s Feuds, which has uncovered stunning new material on Emily Dickinson was published by Virago in the UK in February 2010 and by Viking in the US in June 2010 to fantastic reviews. Virago have also re-issued her biography of Virginia Woolf in 2007 and her Charlotte Bronte biography in 2008.
Candia McWilliam calls her 'a rare phenomenon: a biographer whose preoccupations and authorial career reveal a flowering towards imaginative truth' and Brenda Maddox talks of her 'adventurous scholarship'.
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