Winifred Gérin

Winifred Eveleen Gérin, OBE (7 October 1901 – 28 June 1981) 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 (1967) 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.

Awards and distinctions

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1967)
• Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (1967)
• Royal Society of Literature Heinemann prize (1967)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1968)
• OBE (1975)

Works

• Anne Brontë, Thomas Nelson, 1959
• Branwell Bronte, Thomas Nelson, 1961
• Charlotte Brontë : the evolution of genius, Clarendon, 1967
• Horatia Nelson, Clarendon, 1970
• Emily Brontë : a biography Clarendon, 1971
• Elizabeth Gaskell : a biography, Clarendon, 1976
• Ann Thackeray Ritchie : a biography, Oxford University Press, 1981

External links

• Gerin's publications at Amazon.com
• Gerin's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• A University of Michigan comparison of biographies of Charlotte Bronte

Awards and achievements
Preceded by	Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 1967	Succeeded by Kate Flint Ruth Smith