Outsiders : Five Women Writers Who Changed The World

An exciting and provocative look at the women who wrote the novels that changed the literary world. In five chapters - 'Prodigy', 'Spinster', 'Visionary', 'Outcast', 'Dreamer', Lyndall Gordon will look into the connections between creativity and outsiders in particular lives - the lives of Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf.