OUTSIDERS, five women writers who changed the world

338pp., illus., paperback, Reprint, London, (2017) 2018

Biographies of Olive Schreiner, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.

"It was a relief, really exhilarating to read Outsiders. Gordon's composite biography brings to light the overlaps between the lives of five visionary women in their quest to give expression to truths that their original natures allowed them to perceive." Finuala Dowling, Aerodrome

"Through sensitively recounted biographical details and literary readings, Gordon seeks to understand how these women became writers despite the obstacles in their way, and creates a web of connections, effected in part by their reading of each other’s works, and the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft." Gail Marshall, Times Higher Education

Lyndall Gordon is the author of six biographies, including Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds and The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot, and two memoirs, Shared Lives: Growing up in 50s Cape Town and Divided Lives: Dreams of a mother and daughter. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.