The Resource Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon
Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon
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The item Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels. We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the genius they share. 'Outsider', 'outlaw', 'outcast': a woman's reputation was her security and each of these five lost it. As writers, they made these identities their own, taking advantage of their separation from the dominant order to write their novels. All five were motherless. With no female model at hand, they learnt from books; and if lucky, from an enlightened man; and crucially each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of their own. They understood female desire: the passion and sexual bravery in their own lives infused their fictions. What they have in common also is the way they inform one another, and us, across the generations. Even today we do more than read them; we listen and live with them
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 338 pages
- Isbn
- 9780349006345
- Label
- Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world
- Title
- Outsiders
- Title remainder
- five women writers who changed the world
- Statement of responsibility
- Lyndall Gordon
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels. We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the genius they share. 'Outsider', 'outlaw', 'outcast': a woman's reputation was her security and each of these five lost it. As writers, they made these identities their own, taking advantage of their separation from the dominant order to write their novels. All five were motherless. With no female model at hand, they learnt from books; and if lucky, from an enlightened man; and crucially each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of their own. They understood female desire: the passion and sexual bravery in their own lives infused their fictions. What they have in common also is the way they inform one another, and us, across the generations. Even today we do more than read them; we listen and live with them
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- NPCL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gordon, Lyndall
- Dewey number
- 823
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Woolf, Virginia
- Schreiner, Olive
- Eliot, George
- Brontë, Emily
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
- Women authors, English
- Women novelists, English
- Women authors
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliography and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000061101602
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 338 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780349006345
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1011325468
- Label
- Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world, Lyndall Gordon
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliography and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000061101602
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 338 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780349006345
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1011325468
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