Sarah Lefanu

Standard Name: Lefanu, Sarah

Connections

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Anthologization Michèle Roberts
Roberts re-issued her Anger, together with another story she called God's House, in a volume also titled God's House, 1996. (This second story had appeared in a different Serpent's Tail anthology, God...
Anthologization Michèle Roberts
Another contributed piece is MR 's Lists in Obsession, a volume of short stories on this topic, edited by Sarah Lefanu and Stephen Hayward , 1995. Her story (reprinted in revised form in Playing...
Anthologization Maureen Duffy
MD 's story The Last Priestess appeared in God. An Anthology of Fiction (edited by Stephen Hayward and Sarah Lefanu , 1992).
Anthologization Zoë Fairbairns
Since then ZF has published stories in such places as Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, the Women's Press , 1985, edited by Jen Green and Sarah Lefanu .
Fairbairns, Zoë. Closing. Methuen.
prelims
Anthologization Judith Kazantzis
JK 's God, An Untitled Story appeared in God: an Anthology of Fiction, edited by Stephen Hayward and Sarah Lefanu in 1992. Other contributors included Michèle Roberts , Maureen Duffy , and Bapsi Sidhwa .
Family and Intimate relationships Rose Macaulay
Biographer Sarah Lefanu writes that she had been his best child, while he had been a model for her beliefs, her aspirations and her conduct.
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago.
111-12
Friends, Associates Michèle Roberts
MR 's memoir, Paper Houses, features a huge roster of close friends warmly evoked, some of them long-term commitments and others belonging to some particular period of her life. They include many women who...
Health Rose Macaulay
According to biographers, she also suffered a nervous breakdown at this time. Sarah Lefanu reckons that she had several breakdowns during her life: after the death of her brother Aulay, and perhaps also at the...
Intertextuality and Influence Rose Macaulay
Lefanu suggests that Tudor's obsession with the idea of honey for tea, in his nostalgia for childhood as sanctuary from his present painful life, was a source in the evolution of Rupert Brooke 's famous...
Literary responses Rose Macaulay
Sarah Lefanu finds it feeble and mannered compared with RM 's recent titles. She gives a similarly low rating to Going Abroad, 1934, and I Would Be Private, 1937.
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago.
183, 212
Literary responses Rose Macaulay
RM later wrote, it's really a book for those who have travelled to the same place, or are about to.
Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana.
70
Elizabeth Bowen called it an enchanting book, of high intelligence.
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago.
243
Biographer Sarah Lefanu
Literary responses Rose Macaulay
The Times obituary noted her novels' continued power to enchant, but stressed particularly her personal appeal. Few writers this century inspired so quick and so lasting an affection among people of every kind.
Macaulay, Rose. The Towers of Trebizond. Collins.
dustjacket
Her...
Publishing Rose Macaulay
RM 's letters to friends are full of life and fun. Sarah Lefanu 's biography reproduces on its end-papers one to a child which is full of pictograms: My dear Mary has a picture of...
Textual Features Rose Macaulay
This is her sole historical novel and the only one to reflect her long-standing interest in the seventeenth century. Set between October 1640 and May 1641, the period of the Long Parliament, the novel portrays...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
She used the firm of John Murray , who remained her regular publisher until 1912.
Macaulay, Rose. Letters to a Friend from Rose Macaulay 1950-1952. Editor Babington Smith, Constance, Fontana.
356
Biographer Sarah Lefanu believes that she worked off in this novel some of her turbulent emotions about the close...

Timeline

1928: The poet Edmund Blunden published his memoir...

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1928

The poet Edmund Blunden published his memoirUndertones of War, which, with a number of works issued the following year, have been granted canonical status as imaginative accounts of the First World War.

1929: As well as Richard Aldington's Death of a...

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1929

As well as Richard Aldington 's Death of a Hero, this year saw publication of Erich Maria Remarque 's All Quiet on the Western Front and Robert Graves 's Goodbye to All That.

Texts

Kazantzis, Judith. “God, An Untitled Story”. God: an Anthology of Fiction, edited by Stephen Hayward and Sarah Lefanu, Serpent’s Tail, 1992, pp. 168-81.
Roberts, Michèle. “Lists”. Obsession, edited by Sarah Lefanu et al., Serpent’s Tail, 1995, pp. 125-30.
Lefanu, Sarah. “Majorie Blandy (1887 - 1937)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, 2014, pp. 52-65.
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003.
Duffy, Maureen. “The Last Priestess”. God: an Anthology of Fiction, edited by Stephen Hayward and Sarah Lefanu, Serpent’s Tail, 1992, pp. 127-33.