Lorna Sage

Standard Name: Sage, Lorna

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
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.
Literary responses	E. Owens Blackburne	In the same preface EOB promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth , apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen.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 hailed this novel as science fiction of the subversive sort. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Friends, Associates	Christine Brooke-Rose	Muriel Spark , a very old friend of CBR , 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...
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. Jean-Jacques Lecercle observed illuminatingly that CBR 's future and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Literary responses	Angela Carter	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. Lee, Alison. Angela Carter. Twayne. 23 Claire Harman points out surreal characters, the...
Literary responses	Angela Carter	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...
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 (...
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. 2 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...
Literary responses	Angela Carter	At the very end of her life, AC still felt that she was unrecognised, Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan. 194 perhaps because of her uncompromisingly left-wing politics. At the same time it made her rather miserable to think that...
Literary responses	Maureen Duffy	Lorna Sage wrote that the trilogy made MDthe city's self-appointed laureate. Platt, Edward. “25 Years fighting for writers’ rights”. ALCS News, No. 21, pp. 4-5. 4 In 2004 Marina Warner , re-reading this book, paid tribute to MD because we all owe her: she inaugurated some of the...

Timeline

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, 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 men in the Guardian newspaper's annual listing of the fastest-selling paperbacks in Britain.

Texts

Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Northcote House, 1994.

Sage, Lorna. “Doris Lessing obituary”. theguardian.com.

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.