Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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names | Virginia Woolf | Her first Christian name, never used, was given in memory of her mother's sister, who died shortly before Virginia's birth. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 99 |
Reception | Edith Wharton | EW
's literary career was achieved in face of the indifference or disapproval of her relations, who felt that to publish was to lose caste. In 1923 EW
was awarded an Honorary DLitt by Yale University |
Textual Production | Julia Strachey | JS
wrote the novel while staying with her aunt Dorothy Bussy
's family at Roquebrune in France, informally separated from her first husband, Stephen Tomlin
. Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown. 113, 116 |
Publishing | Stevie Smith | Two years later Hermione Lee
edited Stevie Smith: a Selection, and in 2015 Will May edited Smith's Collected Poems and Drawings. |
Literary responses | Julia O'Faolain | This novel was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Hermione Lee
praised it in the Observer for presenting the inter-relationship between family and national history, while Robert Nye
in the Guardian called it one of the... |
Textual Features | Flora Macdonald Mayor | While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4223 (9 March 1984): 238 |
Literary responses | Doris Lessing | The following year she won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, which The Author called the best and most worthy of all literary prizes, Parker, Derek. “On the Side”. The Author, Vol. cxii , No. 2, pp. 86-8. 87 |
Anthologization | Mary Lavin | Sixty-four of ML
's short stories were published in magazines before most of them were collected in volumes. She was a frequent contributor to Atlantic Monthly, the Dublin Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and... |
Literary responses | Susan Hill | Critic Hermione Lee
, reviewing the collection for the Guardian, praised SH
's tender attention to detail, and likened her to L. P. Hartley
and Elizabeth Bowen
. Lee, Hermione. “Like Buttons in a Box”. Guardian Unlimited. |
Occupation | Roger Fry | The impact of the exhibition, however, was lasting. Hermione Lee
makes a link between the exhibition and Woolf's famous remark that in December 1910, human character changed. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 287, 290 |
Occupation | Roger Fry | As Hermione Lee
notes, Roger Fry's original, unorthodox and hugely influential design centre [was] committed to inventiveness, spontaneity, and playfulness, vibrant Italianate colours and bold new shapes. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 369-70 |
Reception | Antonia Fraser | This book did better in the USA than in Britain, where feminist thinking had further to go. It won a Wolfson History Award, to the author's delight, and remained the book of which she felt... |
Textual Production | Penelope Fitzgerald | Her biographer Hermione Lee
has said: she was writing away like mad in her teens and early twenties. Then this powerful stream disappeared underground, until up it comes, this underground river, at the age of... |
Literary responses | Penelope Fitzgerald | The introduction by Hermione Lee
encapsulates PF
's critical approach by saying she leads us right to the heart of the matter. Her publishers boldly call the volume one of the most engaging books about... |
Reception | Penelope Fitzgerald | Biographer Hermione Lee
announcing in early April 2010 that she was working on PF
, with access to her papers, and, best of all, her library of books with their many personal annotations. Lee, Hermione. “From the Margins: Hermione Lee on Penelope Fitzgerald”. The Guardian, pp. Review 1 - 3. 1 |
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