Lorna Sage

Lorna Sage wrote that the trilogy made MDthe city's self-appointed laureate. In 2004 Marina Warner , re-reading this book, paid tribute to MD because we all owe her: she inaugurated some of the...

Reviewer Lorna Sage saw the book as an example of bricolage, with an underlying mysticism complicating the matter-of-fact world of daily life.

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...

In the same preface EOB promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth , apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen.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...

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.Jean-Jacques Lecercle observed illuminatingly that CBR 's future and...

A female gynaecologist mentioned in the book as uncaring and insensitive successfully sued Greer for damages. The Penguin paperback which followed the year after publication came garlanded with praise from British feminist writers: Wendy Cope

AC said that she was a ravaged anorexic during her ludicrously overprotected adolescence. Having been a very fat child, nicknamed Fatty or Tubs (while her mother fed her with treats and took the line...

Carter had not planned to get pregnant but intended to go ahead. In the later stages her blood-pressure rose dangerously. She was insulted and enraged by an ante-natal clinic consultant, a female doctor who...

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...

Muriel Spark , a very old friend of CBR , also worked in intelligence during the war. Brooke-Rose later helped her by looking over and correcting French translations of Spark's works. Another early friend...

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. She...

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...

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.