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Lyndall Gordon is a Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her work focuses on literary biography, with a particular emphasis on 19th and 20th-century figures such as T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Virginia Woolf. She has published eight biographies and two memoirs, including The Imperfect Life of T.S. Eliot and Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family's Feuds. Her research explores intersections between private lives and public legacies, often challenging traditional narratives of literary figures.
Her education includes studies at Columbia University in New York, and she moved to Oxford through the Rhodes Trust. Awards include the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, Cheltenham Prize for Literature, and Southern Arts Prize. She has been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and Italy’s Comisso Prize. Her upcoming works include a revised edition of The Imperfect Life of T.S. Eliot in 2026 and new translations of Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World in multiple languages.
Gordon's writing often bridges biography and feminist critique, examining how personal experiences shape literary contributions. Her essays and lectures, such as those on Mary Wollstonecraft’s connection to America and Virginia Woolf’s diaries, highlight her interdisciplinary approach to literary history. She also explores themes of friendship, authorship, and the ‘true nature of woman’ in works like Divided Lives and Before Victoria.
