Lorna Sage

In the same preface EOB promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth , apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen.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...

A female gynaecologist mentioned in the book as uncaring and insensitive successfully sued Greer for damages. The Penguin paperback which followed the year after publication came garlanded with praise from British feminist writers: Wendy Cope

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.Jean-Jacques Lecercle observed illuminatingly that CBR 's future and...

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...

Lorna Sage hailed this novel as science fiction of the subversive sort.

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

Reviewers were divided in their opinions of the book. Lorna Sage in the Times Literary Supplement praised it as a hilarious mystic farce, while Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times expressed...

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 and called this work a...

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...

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,...

EOB moved to London to begin her career as a full-time writer.

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 (...

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...