Gordon, Lyndall (Felicity)

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GORDON, Lyndall (Felicity)

GORDON, Lyndall (Felicity). South African, b. 1941. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography. Career: Columbia University, NYC, assistant professor of English, 1975-76; Jesus College, Oxford, England, lecturer in English, 1977-84; St. Hilda's College, Oxford, fellow and tutor in English, 1984-95; writer. Royal Society of Literature, fellow, 2002-. Publications: BIOGRAPHIES: Eliot's Early Years, 1977; Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life, 1984; Eliot's New Life, 1988, rev. ed, as T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, 1998; Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life, 1994; Henry James: A Private Life: Two Women and His Art, 1998. OTHER: Shared Lives (memoir), 1992.