Lorna Sage

Standard Name: Sage, Lorna

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Literary responses Maureen Duffy
Lorna Sage wrote that the trilogy made MDthe city's self-appointed laureate.
qtd. in
Platt, Edward. “25 Years fighting for writers’ rights”. ALCS News, No. 21, July 2002, pp. 4-5.
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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, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
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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In the same preface EOB promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth , apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen.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 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.
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Jean-Jacques Lecercle observed illuminatingly that CBR 's future and...
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 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.
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, 1983, p. v - xiv.
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and called this work a...
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,...
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...
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, 1999.
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols.
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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