The title story is dedicated to Lorna Sage
, and the volume as a whole to her memory. Various other stories are dedicated to other friends and writers. Some were originally written for radio.
Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, pp. 119-34.
131-2
Family and Intimate relationships
Angela Carter
In Japan AC
had a younger lover, Sozo Araki
, whom she calls Taro after a fictional character known as Momotaro or Peach Boy, who later had some success as a writer himself.
Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 21, pp. 7-14.
11-12
She...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Fortune
Indeed, her whole motivation at this time is murky: though she apparently had a work-related reason, she may have been escaping from her marriage. Lorna Sage
, following Lucy Sussex
, suggested that MF
was...
Friends, Associates
Angela Carter
Her literary friends included Lorna Sage
and Salman Rushdie
, a fellow campaigner against the Falklands War. Through her contributions to the London Review of Books she formed a friendship with Susannah Clapp
, an...
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press.
42
also worked in intelligence during the war. Brooke-Rose later helped her by looking over and correcting French translations of Spark's works. Another early friend...
Health
Angela Carter
AC
said that she was a ravaged anorexic during her ludicrously overprotected adolescence.
Carter, Angela. Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings: Angela Carter. Chatto and Windus.
22
Having been a very fat child, nicknamed Fatty or Tubs (while her mother fed her with treats and took the line...
Health
Angela Carter
Carter had not planned to get pregnant but intended to go ahead.
Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan.
177
In the later stages her blood-pressure rose dangerously. She was insulted and enraged by an ante-natal clinic consultant, a female doctor who...
Literary responses
Christine Brooke-Rose
Lorna Sage
hailed this novel as science fiction of the subversive sort.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Literary responses
Patricia Highsmith
Despite positive reviews by Lorna Sage
in The Observer Review and Geoffrey Elborn
in Guardian Weekly, Brooks Peters
in Out says that the novel was not well received in England. However, the year...
Literary responses
Rosamond Lehmann
Auberon Waugh
likened A Sea-Grape Tree to pulp romance, The Times thought it unintentionally absurd, and Lorna Sage
called the main characters paper people. Thoughtful and positive comments from Elizabeth Jane Howard
Literary responses
Iris Murdoch
Reviewers were divided in their opinions of the book. Lorna Sage
in the Times Literary Supplement praised it as a hilarious mystic farce,
Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research.
Anthony Burgess
praised AC
for doing something in this novel which she did in later ones as well: looking at the mess of contemporary life without flinching.
Carter herself called this book a juicy, overblown, exploding gothic lollipop.
Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 21, pp. 7-14.
11
Lorna Sage
saw it as sceptically exploring Otherness, and demonstrating that escaping patriarchy does not mean escaping mythologies. Linden Peach
commented that after...
Literary responses
Marina Warner
Reviews, including those by Lorna Sage
in the Times Literary Supplement, Ann Cornelisen
in the New York Times Book Review, and Michiko Kakutani
in the New York Times, were generally positive. They...
Literary responses
Angela Carter
Lorna Sage
and Linden Peach
both considered this book very useful as a context for reading AC
's fiction.
Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press.
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Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research.
14: 212
ForJenny Turner
it has the whooshing energy of deep release and satisfaction...
Timeline
By April 1976: Ellen Moers published at New York a pioneering...
Writing climate item
By April 1976
Ellen Moers
published at New York a pioneering work of literary criticism entitled Literary Women.
7 September 2000: Lorna Sage published Bad Blood. A Memoir,...
Women writers item
7 September 2000
Lorna Sage
published Bad Blood. A Memoir, a remarkable, no-holds-barred account of her grandparents' dysfunctional marriage and her own growing up until her pregnancy at sixteen.
December 2001: Women writers for the first time outnumbered...
Women writers item
December 2001
Women writers for the first time outnumbered men in the Guardian newspaper's annual listing of the fastest-selling paperbacks in Britain.
Trefusis, Violet, and Lorna Sage. Hunt the Slipper. Virago, 1983.
Sage, Lorna, and Violet Trefusis. “Introduction”. Hunt the Slipper, Virago, 1983, p. v - xiv.
Sage, Lorna. “Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Textermination</span> by Christine Brooke-Rose”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4622, p. 20.
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Flesh and the Mirror: Essays on the Art of Angela Carter. Virago, 1994.
Sage, Lorna. “The Old Girl Network”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3940, p. 1102.
