Lorna Sage

Standard Name: Sage, Lorna

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
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	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...
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 She...
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 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...
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 Having been a very fat child, nicknamed Fatty or Tubs (while her mother fed her with treats and took the line...
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 In the later stages her blood-pressure rose dangerously. She was insulted and enraged by an ante-natal clinic consultant, a female doctor who...
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 The Penguin paperback which followed the year after publication came garlanded with praise from British feminist writers: Wendy Cope
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	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 Claire Harman points out surreal characters, the...
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	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 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	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 while Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times expressed...
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 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, 2009. 194 perhaps because of her uncompromisingly left-wing politics. At the same time it made her rather miserable to think that...

Timeline

By April 1976

Ellen Moers published at New York a pioneering work of literary criticism entitled Literary Women.

Coffey, Marilyn et al. “April 1976 Newsletter”. New York Woman’s Literary Salon, Apr. 1976.

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.

Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

December 2001

Women writers for the first time outnumbered men in the Guardian newspaper's annual listing of the fastest-selling paperbacks in Britain.

Gibbons, Fiachra. “Women lead the way in ’hottest’ books list”. The Guardian, 29 Dec. 2001, p. 5.

Texts

Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Northcote House, 1994.

Sage, Lorna. “Doris Lessing obituary”. theguardian.com.

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 Textermination 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.