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05062aam a2200577Ii 4500 001 CC8132B6760D11E987FF680497128E48 003 SILO 005 20190514010110 008 181025t20192019mdua b 001 0ceng d 010 $a 2018955300 020 $a 1421429446 020 $a 9781421429441 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d IMR $d HHO $d OCLCF $d FO7 $d TFW $d JNE $d NUI $d GO4 $d GSU $d NYP $d VLW $d OCLCO $d UPM $d MJ8 $d FCS $d ZCU $d OCLCO $d WYG $d HIR $d MNU $d DV1 $d OCLCO $d TEU $d TNH $d OCLCO $d ILC $d CLE $d LEB $d SILO 050 14 $a PR115 $b .G65 2019 082 04 $a 820.99287 $2 23 100 1 $a Gordon, Lyndall, $e author. 245 10 $a Outsiders : $b five women writers who changed the world / $c Lyndall Gordon. 246 30 $a Five women writers who changed the world 246 03 $a Outsiders : $b 5 women writers who changed the world 264 1 $a Baltimore, MD : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a 338 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 500 $a First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Virago Press. First published in the United States in 2019 by John Hopkins University Press. 500 $a Copyright © Lyndall Gordon 2017, 2019. 505 0 $a List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Prodigy - Mary Shelley -- Visionary - Emily BronteÌ -- 'Outlaw' - George Eliot -- Orator - Olive Schreiner -- Explorer - Virginia Woolf -- The Outsiders Society -- Sources -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Index. 520 $a Mary Shelley, Emily BronteÌ, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In "Outsiders", award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future. We have long known the individual greatness of each of these writers, but in linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share. All five lost their mothers in childbirth or at a young age. With no female role model present, they learned from books - and sometimes from an enlightened mentor. Crucially, each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of her own. The passion in their own lives infused their fiction. Writing with passionate intelligence of her own, Gordon reveals that these renegade writers inspired a new breed of women who wished to change a world locked in war, violence, exploitation and sexual abuse. Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised. In "Outsiders", she crafts nuanced portraits of Shelley, BronteÌ, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf, naming each of these writers as prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator and explorer, and shows how they came, they saw and they left us changed. Today, following the tsunami of women's protest at wide-spread abuse, we do more than read them; we listen and live with their astonishing bravery and eloquence. -- inside cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a Mary Shelley, Emily BronteÌ, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf. They all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. Gordon shows how, in a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future. In linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share, and how the passion in their own lives infused their fiction. -- adapted from jacket 600 10 $a Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, $d 1797-1851. 600 10 $a Eliot, George, $d 1819-1880. 600 10 $a BronteÌ, Emily, $d 1818-1848. 600 10 $a Schreiner, Olive, $d 1855-1920. 600 10 $a Woolf, Virginia, $d 1882-1941. 650 0 $a Women authors $v Biography. 600 17 $a BronteÌ, 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 7 $a Women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177198 655 0 $a Biographies. 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 710 2 $a Johns Hopkins University. $b Press, $e publisher. 941 $a 5 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200529015547.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508023019.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191116021632.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20190711010621.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190514013655.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CC8132B6760D11E987FF680497128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search