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03430aam a2200493Mi 4500 001 3AD43D38FC1D11E7842A9F4C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180118010011 008 171113s20172017enk e 001 0 eng 020 $a 9780349006338 020 $a 0349006334 020 $a 0349006342 (paperback) 020 $a 9780349006345 (paperback) 035 $a (OCoLC)1011325468 040 $a AU@ $b eng $e rda $c AU@ $d IDU $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d CDX $d UAB $d YDX $d NZAUC $d OCLCF $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en 050 4 $a PR115 $b .G67 2017 082 04 $a 820 $2 23 100 1 $a Gordon, Lyndall $e author. 245 10 $a Outsiders : $b five women writers who changed the world / $c Lyndall Gordon. 264 1 $a London : $b Virago Press, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, $c 2017 300 $a 338 pages ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliography and index. 505 0 $a Prodigy -- Mary Shelly : Visionary -- Emily Bront�e : 'Outlaw' -- George Eliot ; Orator -- Olivia Schreiner ; Explorer -- Virginia Woolf -- The Outsiders Society 520 $a "Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bront�e, 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. Lyndall Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised and much read and enjoyed. She names each of these five as prodigy, visionary, outlaw, orator and explorer and shows how they came, they saw and left us changed." -- publisher website. 600 10 $a Woolf, Virginia, $d 1882-1941 600 10 $a Schreiner, Olive, $d 1855-1920. 600 10 $a Eliot, George, $d 1819-1880. 600 10 $a Bront�e, Emily, $d 1818-1848 600 10 $a Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, $d 1797-1851. 600 17 $a Bront�e, Emily, $d 1818-1848 $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00031383 600 17 $a Eliot, George, $d 1819-1880. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00034497 600 17 $a Schreiner, Olive, $d 1855-1920. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00105260 600 17 $a Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, $d 1797-1851. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00036781 600 17 $a Woolf, Virginia, $d 1882-1941 $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00033879 650 0 $a Women authors $v Biography. 650 7 $a Women authors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177198 655 7 $a Biographies $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biography $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707011703.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20180118010050.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3AD43D38FC1D11E7842A9F4C97128E48 994 $a Z0 $b HL6Initiate Another SILO Locator Search