Gillian Gill

Victoria and Albert Rulers, partners, rivals

We two

Offers a revolutionary portrait of a queen and her prince, revealing at once both an intimate but far-from-idyllic relationship that succeeded against all odds as the strong, feisty queen and the brilliant, fragile prince worked together to build a family based on support, trust, and fidelity.

Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

We Two

An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies--of strength, style, and creativity--shaped Woolf's path to the radical writing that inspires so many today. Gill casts back to Woolf's French-Anglo-Indian maternal great-grandmother Thérèse de L'Etang, an outsider to English culture whose beauty passed powerfully down the female line; and to Woolf's aunt Anne Thackeray Ritchie, who gave Woolf her first vision of a successful female writer. Yet it was the women in her own family circle who had the most complex and lasting effect on Woolf. Her mother, Julia, and sistersStella, Laura, and Vanessa were all, like Woolf herself, but in markedly different ways, warped by the male-dominated household they lived in. Finally, Gill shifts the lens onto the famous Bloomsbury group. This, Gill convinces, is where Woolf called upon the legacy of the women who shaped her to transform a group of men--united in their love for one another and their disregard for women--into a society in which Woolf ultimately found her freedom and her voice.

And the Women Who Shaped Her World

Virginia Woolf

The Woman and Her Mysteries

Agatha Christie

A portrait of Florence Nightingale and her family describes life growing up in a prosperous Victorian English family, her determination to follow her own path in life, and the personal cost for her and her family.

The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale

Nightingales

A feminist analysis of the life and work of the popular mystery writer portrays a strong-willed, passionate woman whose fictional creations explode sexual and other stereotypes

In this sensitive and revealing biography of Agatha Christie, Gillian Gill probes the mysterious private life and motivations of one of the bestselling authors of all time and discovers a brilliant and eccentric woman whose passionate search for success was balanced by an obsession with privacy. The break-up of Agatha's first marriage to Archibald Christie and her subsequent ten-day disappearance had made headline news. Feeling hunted and wounded by the press, Christie determined never again to let them into her private life. Instead she developed a public persona - seemingly tongue-tied and dull - which ensured the journalists and the public would let her be. This successful strategy helped to account for a happy second marriage and family life as well as an astonishing literary productivity. Skillfully weaving the details of Christie's life with the plots and characters of her mystery novels, Gillian Gill uncovers the flesh-and-blood woman behind the popular and celebrated Marple-like image, and establishes Agatha Christie as a unique and determined person whose fictional creations sparked the imagination of millions around the world.

David Rapaport

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In questa sensibile e rivelatrice biografia di Agatha Christie, Gillian Gill sonda la misteriosa vita privata e le ragioni del successo di una delle maggiori autrici di bestseller di tutti i tempi, scoprendo una donna brillante ed eccentrica ossessionata dalla privacy. La fine del primo matrimonio con Archibald Christie e la successiva scomparsa di Agatha per dieci giorni avevano suscitato clamore. Sentendosi ferita dalla stampa, aveva deciso di non lasciare più che i giornalisti entrassero nella sua vita privata e di dare l’impressione di essere un personaggio noioso, così da essere lasciata in pace. Strategia che le permise di vivere un secondo felice matrimonio e un’intensa vita familiare, nonché di raggiungere una produttività letteraria sorprendente. Intrecciando la vita di Agatha Christie con le storie, i complotti e i personaggi dei suoi romanzi, Gillian Gill rivela il volto di una donna passionale e sanguigna, unica e determinata, un’autrice geniale le cui creazioni hanno fatto volare l’immaginazione di milioni di persone in tutto il mondo.

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