Hermione Lee

Biographer Hermione Lee announcing in early April 2010 that she was working on PF , with access to her papers, and, best of all, her library of books with their many personal annotations. These...

This book did better in the USA than in Britain, where feminist thinking had further to go. It won a Wolfson History Award, to the author's delight, and remained the book of which she felt...

Two years later Hermione Lee edited Stevie Smith: a Selection, and in 2015 Will May edited Smith's Collected Poems and Drawings.

VW worked long and hard on the lengthy novel which finally became The Years. Its genesis goes back to her speech of 21 January 1931 at the London and National Society for Women's Service

The impact of the exhibition, however, was lasting. Hermione Lee makes a link between the exhibition and Woolf's famous remark that in December 1910, human character changed. Lee also observes that the rhetoric...

As Hermione Lee notes, Roger Fry's original, unorthodox and hugely influential design centre [was] committed to inventiveness, spontaneity, and playfulness, vibrant Italianate colours and bold new shapes.

Her first Christian name, never used, was given in memory of her mother's sister, who died shortly before Virginia's birth.Ginia was her earliest family nickname. She later gave herself many more, using different...

Critic Hope Mary describes these stories as delicately composed, while Hermione Lee judges them to be absolutely first-rate.

Hermione Lee called this a rich, flamboyant, mannered book, written with condensed, self-conscious stylishness, dazzling with images and sensations and violence, and daring you to resist it from its first outrageous sentence. For her it...

Hermione Lee , reviewing, saluted Gina's, or Enright's, voice as wry, disabused, reckless, candid, funny, and Gina's female relationships (with her mother, her sister, Evie) as discomforting, awkward and delicately handled.

The introduction by Hermione Lee encapsulates PF 's critical approach by saying she leads us right to the heart of the matter. Her publishers boldly call the volume one of the most engaging books about...

Hermione Lee likens the extraordinary impact of this juvenile work to that of an archaeological dig which reveals the rooms and furnishings and small ordinary objects of a legendary monarch, all as fresh as on...

Critic Hermione Lee , reviewing the collection for the Guardian, praised SH 's tender attention to detail, and likened her to L. P. Hartley and Elizabeth Bowen .

Hermione Lee , reviewing this book for the Guardian Weekly, found PB 's style was sometimes jerky, and that some of the links back to the previous novel were clumsily made. But she applauded...

A review by Hermione Lee called this book a mosaic of texts, parodies, translations, allusions and fragmentary quotations. . . . an addict's book about the dangers of literary addiction. She found, however, its...