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...
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 (...
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.
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,...
Publishing
Violet Trefusis
It was reprinted in English as one of Virago
's Modern Classics series in 1983, with an introduction by Lorna Sage
, who found in VT
an unexpected self-awareness
Sage, Lorna, and Violet Trefusis. “Introduction”. Hunt the Slipper, Virago, p. v - xiv.
vi
and called this work a...
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.
Carter herself called this book a juicy, overblown, exploding gothic lollipop.
Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 21, pp. 7-14.
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Lorna Sage
saw it as sceptically exploring Otherness, and demonstrating that escaping patriarchy does not mean escaping mythologies. Linden Peach
commented that after...
Literary responses
Marina Warner
Reviews, including those by Lorna Sage
in the Times Literary Supplement, Ann Cornelisen
in the New York Times Book Review, and Michiko Kakutani
in the New York Times, were generally positive. They...
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.
2
Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research.
14: 212
ForJenny Turner
it has the whooshing energy of deep release and satisfaction...
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
perhaps because of her uncompromisingly left-wing politics. At the same time it made her rather miserable to think that...
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
In 2004 Marina Warner
, re-reading this book, paid tribute to MD
because we all owe her: she inaugurated some of the...
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...
Timeline
By April 1976: Ellen Moers published at New York a pioneering...
Writing climate item
By April 1976
Ellen Moers
published at New York a pioneering work of literary criticism entitled Literary Women.
7 September 2000: Lorna Sage published Bad Blood. A Memoir,...
Women writers item
7 September 2000
Lorna Sage
published Bad Blood. A Memoir, a remarkable, no-holds-barred account of her grandparents' dysfunctional marriage and her own growing up until her pregnancy at sixteen.
December 2001: Women writers for the first time outnumbered...
Women writers item
December 2001
Women writers for the first time outnumbered men in the Guardian newspaper's annual listing of the fastest-selling paperbacks in Britain.
Trefusis, Violet, and Lorna Sage. Hunt the Slipper. Virago, 1983.
Sage, Lorna, and Violet Trefusis. “Introduction”. Hunt the Slipper, Virago, 1983, p. v - xiv.
Sage, Lorna. “Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Textermination</span> by Christine Brooke-Rose”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4622, p. 20.
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Flesh and the Mirror: Essays on the Art of Angela Carter. Virago, 1994.
Sage, Lorna. “The Old Girl Network”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3940, p. 1102.
