Lorna Sage

Reviewer Lorna Sage saw the book as an example of bricolage, with an underlying mysticism complicating the matter-of-fact world of daily life.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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,...