Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, 2004, pp. 119-34.
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Dedications | Michèle Roberts | 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. Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, 2004, pp. 119-34. 131-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Carter | In Japan AC
had a younger lover, Sozo Araki
, whom she calls Taro after a fictional character known as Momotaro or Peach Boy, who later had some success as a writer himself. Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol. 38 , No. 21, 3 Nov. 2016, pp. 7-14. 11-12 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Fortune | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Angela Carter | Her literary friends included Lorna Sage
and Salman Rushdie
, a fellow campaigner against the Falklands War. Through her contributions to the London Review of Books she formed a friendship with Susannah Clapp
, an... |
Friends, Associates | Christine Brooke-Rose | Muriel Spark
, a very old friend of CBR
, Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press, 2002. 42 |
Health | Angela Carter | AC
said that she was a ravaged anorexic during her ludicrously overprotected adolescence. Carter, Angela. Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings: Angela Carter. 1st ed., Chatto and Windus, 1997. 22 |
Health | Angela Carter | Carter had not planned to get pregnant but intended to go ahead. Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 177 |
Literary responses | Christine Brooke-Rose | Lorna Sage
hailed this novel as science fiction of the subversive sort. qtd. in “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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 |
Literary responses | Angela Carter | Anthony Burgess
praised AC
for doing something in this novel which she did in later ones as well: looking at the mess of contemporary life without flinching. Lee, Alison. Angela Carter. Twayne, 1997. 23 |
Literary responses | Patricia Highsmith | 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... |
Literary responses | Angela Carter | Carter herself called this book a juicy, overblown, exploding gothic lollipop. qtd. in Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol. 38 , No. 21, 3 Nov. 2016, pp. 7-14. 11 |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | 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 |
Literary responses | Iris Murdoch | Reviewers were divided in their opinions of the book. Lorna Sage
in the Times Literary Supplement praised it as a hilarious mystic farce, qtd. in Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research, 1982–1983. 14: 368 |
Literary responses | Angela Carter | Lorna Sage
and Linden Peach
both considered this book very useful as a context for reading AC
's fiction. Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press, 1998. 2 Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research, 1982–1983. 14: 212 |