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Gwendolen
Diana Souhami
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Description for Gwendolen
Paperback. George Eliot's flawed heroine takes her deserved place centre stage in a retelling of Daniel Deronda. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 208.
I was winning when I met your gaze . . .
So begins the confession of Gwendolen Harleth: dazzling beauty, wilful vivant and gambler of hearts: who bet her strength against her cruel husband, staked it all on the love of Daniel Deronda, and played her way back to a winning hand.
With the profound insight of her acclaimed biographies, Diana Souhami fashions a real life for this most mercurial and magnetic of literary heroines, plotting Gwendolen's course in step with the drama of the age as a pioneer of women's aspirations in our ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782063551
SKU
V9781782063551
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About Diana Souhami
Diana Souhami is the author of Gluck: Her Biography, Greta and Cecil, The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and winner of the US Lambda Literary Award), the bestselling Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter (also winner of the Lambda Literary Award and a New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year'), Selkirk's Island (winner of the Whitbread Biography award), Coconut Chaos, Natalie and Romaine and ... Read more
Reviews for Gwendolen
When Eliot drops the thread, Souhami comes into her own. Liberated, Gwendolen joins a Victorian bohemia of authors, artists, reformers and sexual rebels. Eliot neglected to find a proper home for Gwendolen. Souhami, with sympathy, mischief and imagination, gives her one
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A bold feat of imagination ... The result is intriguing and moving ... a powerful meditation ... Read more
Independent
A bold feat of imagination ... The result is intriguing and moving ... a powerful meditation ... Read more