Background
Gordon, Lyndall was born on November 4, 1941 in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Lyndall Gordon
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Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York City, 1973.
Career
She is a Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Born in Cape Town, she was an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town, then a doctoral student at Columbia University in New York City. Her most recent publication is Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family's Feuds (2010), which has overturned the established assumptions about the poet's life.
Achievements
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Gordon is the author of Eliot's Early Years (1977), which won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Virginia Woolf: A Writer's (1984), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate (1994), winner of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature.
And Vindication: A of Mary Wollstonecraft, shortlisted for the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize.
Connections
Married Siamon Gordon, April 7, 1963. Children: Anna, Olivia.
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Nationality
South African
Awards
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize Samuel Johnson Prize; the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is an annual British prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language.The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is an annual British prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language.