qtd. in
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1972, 2 vols.
1: 51
Lyndall Gordon
Standard Name: Gordon, Lyndall
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Virginia Woolf | Allowed uncensored access to her father's library, she made rich use of it. Leslie Stephen
once commented to himself that Ginia is devouring books, almost faster than I like. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | VW
's sister, Vanessa
, married art critic Clive Bell
at St Pancras Registry Office in London. Lyndall Gordon
maintains that |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | He was immensely influential. As editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1871 to 1882, he published Henry James
, Thomas Hardy
, Matthew Arnold
, Robert Browning
, and George Meredith
, among others. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, 1983, pp. 32-56. 34 |
| Health | Emily Dickinson | ED
was troubled by poor eyesight, beginning in the fall of 1861 when her vision was seriously impaired. She consulted doctors about her sight in 1864 and 1865 to good effect. However, biographer Cynthia Griffin Wolff |
| Health | T. S. Eliot | TSE
took three months sick-leave from Lloyds Bank
to recover from what is called a nervous collapse by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. qtd. in Gordon, Lyndall. T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life. W. W. Norton, 1999. 172 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. qtd. in Gordon, Lyndall. T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life. W. W. Norton, 1999. 172 |
| Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | VW
wrote to Ethel Smyth
that the stories were diversions or treats I allowed myself when I had done my exercise in the conventional style. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 4: 231 |
| Literary responses | Mary Wollstonecraft | Virginia Woolf
celebrated Wollstonecraft's immortality in 1929; Marjorie Bowen
wrote of her critically in 1937 yet entitled her work This Shining Woman. The future anthropologist Ruth Benedict
, with her own career yet to... |
| Occupation | Virginia Woolf | This college, founded in 1885, offered evening classes to working women and men. VW
lectured and led discussions on English Literature, English History, and Composition until December 1907. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989. 5, 13 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 222-3 |
| Reception | Emily Dickinson | Because of the extent to which ED
's concentrated and elusive verse, as well as her dissent from religious and social orthodoxies, seem to presage modernism, she has been considered the sole serious writer among... |
| Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Hermione Lee
reads the story as an imagined meeting between the Stephen sisters of Bloomsbury and their alternative selves (as they would have been if their lives had remained in the track mapped out for... |
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Texts
Gordon, Lyndall. Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
Gordon, Lyndall. T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life. W. W. Norton, 1999.
Gordon, Lyndall. Virginia Woolf: A Writer’s Life. Norton, 1984.