Winifred Gérin

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1901 – 1981

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Who was Winifred Gérin?

Winifred Eveleen Gérin, OBE was an English biographer born in Hamburg. She is best known as a biographer of the Brontë sisters and their brother Branwell, whose lives she researched extensively. Charlotte Brontë: the Evolution of Genius is regarded as her seminal work and received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann prize.

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Born
Oct 7, 1901
Hamburg
Also known as
  • Winifred Gérin
  • Winifred Gerin
Died
Jun 28, 1981

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on July 23, 2013

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