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  • Lives Like Loaded Guns

    Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds

    In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Shared Lives

    Growing Up in 50s Cape Town

    Lyndall Gordon, the acclaimed biographer of T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, grew up in Cape Town, South Africa in the 1950s. This intimate and moving memoir is the story of Rosie, Ellie, and Romy- her closest friends from childhood until their early deaths.Daughters of Jewish immigrants, these girls grew into adulthood together, shaped by their parents' and grandparents' Eastern European heritages, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Virginia Woolf

    A Writer's Life

    This prize-winning biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an explorer of 'the infinite oddity of the human position'. Instead of the doom-and-death often imposed on women of genius, here is the robust walker and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Lives Like Loaded Guns

    Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds

    Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come to us as an odd and helpless woman living a life of self imposed seclusion. Lyndall Gordon sees instead a volcanic character living on her own terms and with a steely confidence in her own talent; a woman whose family feuded over a hothouse of adultery and devastating betrayal and a woman who had her own secret. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Outsiders

    Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

    Prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator and explorer. As society's outsiders, the exceptional subjects of this study inspired a new breed of women—and one another.Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Literature by the Association of American PublishersMary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Hyacinth Girl

    T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

    **Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography"The most brilliant and incisive new book on Eliot." —Colm Tóibín, Irish Times**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language poet of his generation. His poems The Waste Land and Four Quartets are classics of the modernist canon, while his essays influenced a school of ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Vindication: A Life Of Mary Wollstonecraft

    In this stunning new biography of the eighteenth-century writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Lyndall Gordon explores the life of a woman often criticised by biographers, historians and feminists alike. Gordon challenges such slanders, and portrays instead the genius of this extraordinary woman. The two-generation approach to her life examines not only Wollstonecraft herself, but also her effect on her ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    The Hyacinth Girl

    T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

    Narrated by Buffy Davis ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 28 min

    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T. S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language poet of his generation. But there was another side to Eliot, as acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon reveals in her new biography, The Hyacinth Girl. While married twice, Eliot had an almost lifelong love for Emily Hale, an American drama teacher to whom he wrote extensive, illuminating, deeply ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Lives Like Loaded Guns

    Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds

    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 6 min

    In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons and reveals Emily to be a ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Before Victoria

    Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era

    It might not have the been the revolution that Mary Wollstonecraft called for in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), but the Romantic era did witness a dramatic change in women's lives. Combining literary and cultural history, this richly illustrated volume brings back to life a remarkable, though frequently overlooked, group of women who transformed British culture and inspired new ways ... Read more

    $57.59 CAD

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    Private Inquiries

    The Secret History of Female Sleuths

    Narrated by Annie Aldington ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 40 min

    The female private detective has been a staple of popular culture for over 150 years. But what about the real-life women behind these fictional tales? Dismissed as 'Mrs Sherlock Holmes' or amateurish Miss Marples, mocked as private dicks or honey trappers, they have been investigating crime since the mid-nineteenth century - everything from theft and fraud to romance scams and murder. In Private ... Read more

    $56.30 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Pure Wit

    The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

    Narrated by Anna Cordell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 7 min

    A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.'My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world' - Margaret CavendishMargaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to an aristocratic family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta ... Read more

    $23.04 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus