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Literary responses | Angela Carter | At the very end of her life, AC
still felt that she was unrecognised, Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan. 194 |
Literary responses | Maureen Duffy | Lorna Sage
wrote that the trilogy made MDthe city's self-appointed laureate. Platt, Edward. “25 Years fighting for writers’ rights”. ALCS News, No. 21, pp. 4-5. 4 |
Literary responses | Maureen Duffy | Reviewer Lorna Sage
saw the book as an example of bricolage, with an underlying mysticism complicating the matter-of-fact world of daily life. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 68 |
Literary responses | Elaine Feinstein | Lorna Sage
in the Times Literary Supplement used the word obsessed about Feinstein's interest in the persistence of the past in her characters' lives. . . . The last war, the holocaust, the webs of... |
Literary responses | E. Owens Blackburne | In the same preface EOB
promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth
, apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen. Between the publication of the two volumes, however, Wordsworth's son forbade... |
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. 265-6 |
Literary responses | Christine Brooke-Rose | Lorna Sage
in The Observer described Amalgamemnon as an elegant, rueful and witty word-game about what it feels like to be a word-addict—worse, a writing addict. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Publishing | Violet Trefusis | |
Reception | Violet Trefusis | Michael Holroyd
suggests in the Afterword to A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters—Absent Fathers, 2010, that scholarly interest in Vita Sackville-West
created a biassed climate for the reception of VT
. Whatever vessel set... |
Reception | Jeanette Winterson | One reviewer seeing positive aspects of the novel was Rachel Cusk
in The Times, who admired Winterson's blending of invention and compassion, and found the novel exciting though also linguistically infuriating. Another sympathetic reviewer,... |
Residence | E. Owens Blackburne | EOB
moved to London to begin her career as a full-time writer. Critic Lorna Sage
gives the date of her move as 1873. Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass. |
Textual Features | Angela Carter | Lorna Sage
noted that South America is an apt setting for this novel, since the essays and stories of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges
show a similar blending of the fantastical and the documentary (... |
Textual Production | Germaine Greer | GG
has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings
, Jeslyn Medoff
and Melinda Sansone
), Kissing the Rod, has played an... |
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