Divided lives
Subtitle: dreams of a mother and a daughter
By: Lyndall Gordon
Publisher: Virago
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781844088911
Subjects: Women biographers; Biography; Biographers; Mothers and daughters
Description: "Lyndall Gordon was born in 1941 in Cape Town, a place from which 'a ship takes fourteen days to reach anywhere that matters.' Born to a mother whose mysterious illness confined her for years to life indoors, Lyndall was her secret sharer, a child who grew to know life through books, story-telling and her mother's own writings. It was an exciting, precious world, pure and rich in dreams and imagination - untainted by the demands of reality. But a daughter grows up..."--
Notes: Originally published: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1.`Sister'; title: 2. Mothers; title: 3.`Illness Was My Teacher'; title: 4. Orphans and Stories; title: 5. The Silent Past; title: 6.`Only a Housewife'; title: 7. School versus Home; title: 8.`Lapp Heights'; title: 9. Free in London; title: 10. Mother to Daughter; title: 11. At the Crossroad; title: 12. Dividing Dreams; title: 13. The Way Down; title: 14. Lives for Women; title: 15. Lost and Living Memory; title: 16. Echoes of Kinship.