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...
Literary responses
A. S. Byatt
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.
Lee, Hermione. “Losing the Thread in the Labyrinth of Life”. Guardian Weekly, p. 18.
18
She found, however, its...
Textual Features
Willa Cather
Hermione Lee
writes: The best stories are set in the West, and in Pittsburgh. In all of them a solitary figure with artistic talents or inclinations is destroyed by the desert, the philistine wilderness.
Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago.
Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf.
96
H. L. Mencken
, however, thought this book still more competent, more searching and convincing, better...
Textual Features
Willa Cather
This summary may suggest to modern ears a cut-and-dried tale of goodies and baddies, but the motivations of all the central characters are mixed, and a large cast of subsidiary characters enacts complexity where a...
Textual Production
Willa Cather
WC
was a tireless letter-writer, and also kept a diary. She did not want her letters to be published, allegedly because she thought them too spontaneous and unpolished.
Byatt, A. S., and Willa Cather. “Introduction”. A Lost Lady, Virago, p. v - xiv.
vii
Hermione Lee
refers to reading, at...
Literary responses
Anita Desai
Critic Hope Mary
describes these stories as delicately composed,
Choudhury, Bidulata. Women and Society in the Novels of Anita Desai. Nice Printing Press.
43 and n15
while Hermione Lee
judges them to be absolutely first-rate.
Choudhury, Bidulata. Women and Society in the Novels of Anita Desai. Nice Printing Press.
43 and n14
Literary responses
Anne Enright
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...
Literary responses
Anne Enright
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.
Lee, Hermione. “The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright—review”. theguardian.com.
Textual Production
Penelope Fitzgerald
Her biographer Hermione Lee
has said: she was writing away like mad in her teens and early twenties. Then this powerful stream disappeared underground, until up it comes, this underground river, at the age of...
Literary responses
Penelope Fitzgerald
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...
Reception
Penelope Fitzgerald
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.
Lee, Hermione. “From the Margins: Hermione Lee on Penelope Fitzgerald”. The Guardian, pp. Review 1 - 3.
1
These...
Reception
Antonia Fraser
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...
Occupation
Roger Fry
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, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
287, 290
Lee also observes that the rhetoric...
Occupation
Roger Fry
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.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
369-70
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Texts
Woolf, Virginia, and Hermione Lee. A Room of One’s Own; and, Three Guineas. Chatto and Windus; Hogarth Press, 1984.
Lee, Hermione. “All Reputation”. London Review of Books, Vol.
24
, No. 20, pp. 19-20.
Lee, Hermione. “Estates of mind”. Guardian Unlimited.
Lee, Hermione et al. “Foreword”. Hyde Park Gate News. The Stephen Family Newspaper, edited by Gill Lowe and Gill Lowe, Hesperus Press, 2005, p. vii - x.
Lee, Hermione. “From the Margins: Hermione Lee on Penelope Fitzgerald”. The Guardian, pp. Review 1 - 3.
Lee, Hermione. “Like Buttons in a Box”. Guardian Unlimited.
Lee, Hermione. “Losing the Thread in the Labyrinth of Life”. Guardian Weekly, p. 18.
Lee, Hermione. “The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright—review”. theguardian.com.
Lee, Hermione. “The greater truths of war”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 38-9.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.