The acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft, T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf and Henry James, turns now to the life of Emily Dickinson, one of America's best-loved poets.
Lyndall Gordon looks into the connections between creativity and outsiders in particular lives - the lives of Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf.