GG
has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings
, Jeslyn Medoff
and Melinda Sansone
), Kissing the Rod, has played an...
Textual Features
Angela Carter
Lorna Sage
noted that South America is an apt setting for this novel, since the essays and stories of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges
show a similar blending of the fantastical and the documentary (...
Residence
E. Owens Blackburne
EOB
moved to London to begin her career as a full-time writer.
Critic Lorna Sage
gives the date of her move as 1873.
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press.
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass.
Reception
Violet Trefusis
Michael Holroyd
suggests in the Afterword to A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters—Absent Fathers, 2010, that scholarly interest in Vita Sackville-West
created a biassed climate for the reception of VT
. Whatever vessel set...
Reception
Jeanette Winterson
One reviewer seeing positive aspects of the novel was Rachel Cusk
in The Times, who admired Winterson's blending of invention and compassion, and found the novel exciting though also linguistically infuriating. Another sympathetic reviewer,...
Publishing
Violet Trefusis
It was reprinted in English as one of Virago
's Modern Classics series in 1983, with an introduction by Lorna Sage
, who found in VT
an unexpected self-awareness
Sage, Lorna, and Violet Trefusis. “Introduction”. Hunt the Slipper, Virago, p. v - xiv.
vi
and called this work a...
Literary responses
Elaine Feinstein
Lorna Sage
in the Times Literary Supplement used the word obsessed about Feinstein's interest in the persistence of the past in her characters' lives. . . . The last war, the holocaust, the webs of...
Literary responses
E. Owens Blackburne
In the same preface EOB
promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth
, apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen. Between the publication of the two volumes, however, Wordsworth's son forbade...
Literary responses
Christine Brooke-Rose
Lorna Sage
in The Observer described Amalgamemnon as an elegant, rueful and witty word-game about what it feels like to be a word-addict—worse, a writing addict.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
A female gynaecologist mentioned in the book as uncaring and insensitive successfully sued Greer for damages.
Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books.
265-6
The Penguin
paperback which followed the year after publication came garlanded with praise from British feminist writers: Wendy Cope
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.
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.
