Sara Maitland
Standard Name: Maitland, Sara
Birth Name: Sara Louise Maitland
Married Name: Sara Lee
Publishing from the later twentieth century, SM
has produced poetry, short stories, novels, feminist theology, biography, hagiography, social and literary criticism, and gardening books. She has written for radio, television, and periodicals.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Anthologization | Michèle Roberts | This book was Fell's brainchild. Other contributors included Kathy Acker
on Lust (whom MR
admires for the riproaring language in which she writes of sexual violence), Zoë Fairbairns
on Covetousness, Fell herself of Sloth, and... |
Friends, Associates | Zoë Fairbairns | ZF
formed a feminist collective with fellow writers and socialists Sara Maitland
, Valerie Miner
, Michèle Roberts
, and Michelene Wandor
. Fairbairns, Zoë, Sara Maitland, Valerie Miner, Michèle Roberts, and Michelene Wandor, editors. Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman, 1978. 1-3 |
Friends, Associates | Michèle Roberts | MR
's memoir, Paper Houses, features a huge roster of close friends warmly evoked, some of them long-term commitments and others belonging to some particular period of her life. They include many women who... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Zoë Fairbairns | People she thanks for helping (for instance, in interviews) with the research for this book include Rosie Boycott
, Sara Maitland
, Jeanette Winterson
, and her own parents. Part of the novel grew from... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | It was Sara Maitland
who suggested that the twins in this novel should be introduced while still in the womb. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007. 198 |
Literary responses | Michèle Roberts | |
Literary responses | Marina Warner | Amanda Craig
, reviewing for the Observer, invoked recent studies in the same field by Sara Maitland
and Philip Pullman
, before pronouncing Warner's book to be a little gem, on account of the... |
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, 1999. 265-6 |
politics | Nadine Gordimer | NG
regarded it as an act of loyalty to be critical when appropriate of the African National Congress
once it was in power, and of President Thabo Mbeki
, who was the second post-apartheit president... |
Publishing | Zoë Fairbairns | Photographs of contributors (including Kathy Acker
, Leslie Dick
, Sara Maitland
, Agnes Owens
, and Michèle Roberts
) adorn the back cover. Amanda Faulkner
provided the illustrations. |
Reception | Angela Carter | Nights at the Circus, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize, remains AC
's best known work. Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 1 Lee, Alison. Angela Carter. Twayne, 1997. 93 |
Textual Features | Michelene Wandor | This includes work by Nora Bartlett
, Sara Maitland
, Judith Kazantzis
, Wendy Mulford
, Libby Houston
, Cora Kaplan
, Michèle Roberts
, Angela Carter
, Noel Greig
, Rozsika Parker
, Alison Hennegan |
Textual Features | Sally Purcell | SP
included poems of her own in the volume, though the title poem is not hers but Sara Maitland
's. |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | During the 1960s ET
wrote for magazines like Queen and Vogue. She was founder-editor of Bananas, a journal of new writing that ran from 1975 to 1981 and attracted contributors like Angela Carter |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | The Journeyman Press
published Tales I Tell My Mother: A Collection of Feminist Short Stories, a collection of short stories by MW
, Sara Maitland
, Zoë Fairbairns
, Michèle Roberts
and Valerie Miner
. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1987. 1979 Michelene Wandor. |
Timeline
7 March 203
In the reign of the Emperor Septimius Severus
, Perpetua
, author of the earliest surviving text in Latin by a woman, was martyred at Carthage in North Africa.
17 April 1695
Sor (Sister) Juana Inez de la Cruz
, nun and writer, the greatest poet the American continent produced in the seventeenth century, died in her convent in Mexico City.
“The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project”. Dartmouth College: Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
1868
Actress and music-hall star Vesta Tilley
(born Matilda Alice Powles) made her stage debut at the age of four at the Theatre Royal
in Gloucester.
By mid-October 1983
Ursula Owen
, editor of Virago Press
, published with them an anthology of essays: Fathers: Reflections by Daughters.