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,...
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...
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...
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...
Dedications
Michèle Roberts
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
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.
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
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...
Textual Production
Germaine Greer
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...
Literary responses
Germaine Greer
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.
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The Penguin
paperback which followed the year after publication came garlanded with praise from British feminist writers: Wendy Cope
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...
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
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...
Literary responses
Maureen Duffy
Reviewer Lorna Sage
saw the book as an example of bricolage, with an underlying mysticism complicating the matter-of-fact world of daily life.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
68
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...
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.
