Hermione Lee

A review by Randolph Bourne in the USA levelled much the same criticisms as William Heinemann in England.H. L. Mencken , however, thought this book still more competent, more searching and convincing, better...

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...

Her first Christian name, never used, was given in memory of her mother's sister, who died shortly before Virginia's birth.Ginia was her earliest family nickname. She later gave herself many more, using different...

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 also observes that the rhetoric...

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.

VW worked long and hard on the lengthy novel which finally became The Years. Its genesis goes back to her speech of 21 January 1931 at the London and National Society for Women's Service

Two years later Hermione Lee edited Stevie Smith: a Selection, and in 2015 Will May edited Smith's Collected Poems and Drawings.

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

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. These...

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...

Hermione Lee notes that during this period [p]assionate celebrations of London filled the diaries and letters and spilled over into Mrs. Dalloway.

Hermione Lee calls this VW 's novel of friendships, her Bloomsbury novel, and in the context of its six characters she recalls Woolf's tracing Bloomsbury to six people who were remarkable for nothing but...

This summary may suggest to modern ears a cut-and-dried tale of goodies and baddies, but the motivations of all the central characters are mixed, and a large cast of subsidiary characters enacts complexity where a...

Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron 's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there. This farcical presentation of Victorian life...

Hermione Lee reads the story as an imagined meeting between the Stephen sisters of Bloomsbury and their alternative selves (as they would have been if their lives had remained in the track mapped out for...