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A story about TS Eliot’s life offers a convenient segue to write about a genre of literary biography that has long lurked in my mind asking for an essay: great women who write about great women, and why Lyndall Gordon is a master of the genre.
A century after the writer's death, a new biography shows how she withstood colonial prejudice and terminal illness to produce revolutionary short fiction.