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.
Portrait of Sara Maitland. She is sitting on a chair with her arms crossed to rest on its back. She wears a grey turtleneck and what looks like a vest in burnt orange and yellow colours.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Michèle Roberts
MR 's work with Spare Rib won her an invitation to join the writing-editing collective of Zoë Fairbairns , Sara Maitland , Valerie Miner , and Michelene Wandor (who were already published authors), working on...
Textual Production Zoë Fairbairns
The first project of the feminist collective formed by ZF with Sara Maitland , Valerie Miner , Michele Roberts , and Michelene Wandor was to write and publish Tales I Tell My Mother.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman, 1978.
1-3
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michèle Roberts
She writes, I originally became interested in the subject when I was trying to think my way out of Catholicism and into the confidence necessary for beginning to write.
Roberts, Michèle. “God”. Mslexia, Vol.
21
, Apr. 2004, pp. 28-9.
28
She writes excitedly about her...

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Texts

Maitland, Sara, editor. Very Heaven. Virago, 1988.
Maitland, Sara. Vesta Tilley. Virago, 1986.
Maitland, Sara. Virgin Territory. Michael Joseph, 1984.
Maitland, Sara, and Wendy Mulford. Virtuous Magic. Mowbray, 1998.
Garcia, Jo, and Sara Maitland, editors. Walking on the Water. Virago, 1983.
Maitland, Sara, and Aileen La Tourette. Weddings and Funerals. Brilliance Books, 1984.