Gillian Gill, Author . Ballantine $27.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-345-45187-3
To focus on the well-nigh unknown family members of an icon is an audacious step for a biographer. And Gill's Nightingales
does dwell in some measure on Florence's sickly, gentle sister, Parthenope ("Pop"); her stern, loving,...
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Gillian Gill, Author . Ballantine $30 (460p) ISBN 978-0-345-48405-5
According to Gill (Nightingales
), the age that has been labeled Victorian was, in its origins, Albertian. Prince Albert was the chaste scion of a family of ambitious, debt-ridden, sexually corrupt misogynists, and his holy war of moral strictness...
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Gillian Gill. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-328-68395-3
In this often overly speculative book, Gill (We Too, Nightingales) places Virgina Woolf within the context of the women in her life and, particularly, in her family. Gill traces Woolf’s connection to imperial India—her mother, Julia Jackson Stephen,
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