“Telling Lives: The Challenge of the Family Memoir”

Dr Lyndall Gordon

Mawby Room, Kellogg College,
62 Banbury Road
5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm

All are welcome and no bookings are necessary

Lyndall Gordon grew up in Cape Town where she studied history and English, then nineteenth-century American literature at Columbia in New York. In 1973 she came to England through the Rhodes Trust. For many years she was a tutor and lecturer in English at Oxford where she is now Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College.

Virago has published her six biographies and two memoirs, which include Eliot’s Early Years, which won the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize; Virginia Woolf: A Writer’s Life, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life, winner of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature; Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, longlisted for the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize, and Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family’s Feuds, short-listed for the Duff Cooper prize and for Italy’s Comisso prize for biography. Her most recent publication is a memoir, Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter (2014). Dr Gordon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and member of PEN

Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/CW

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