In five chapters - 'Prodigy', 'Spinster', 'Visionary', 'Outcast', 'Dreamer', Lyndall Gordon will look into the connections between creativity and outsiders in particular lives - the lives of Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot,...

'Outsider', 'outlaw', 'outcast': a woman's reputation was her security and each of these five lost it. As writers, they made the outsider identity their own and wrote their novels of genius.They came, they saw and left us changed.'The...

'Her thesis is that there were two women in James's life whose influence was so profound that they can be seen as partners, even collaborators in his art. Their ties to him were not sexual but imaginative, and their force was exerted...

This highly acclaimed biography looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones. Instead we see a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art....

Among the greatest of poets, T. S. Eliot guarded his privacy. In public he was attached to three women: two wives and a companion in prayer. But concealed was an almost life-long love for an American: Emily Hale, a drama teacher to whom...