Hermione Lee

Standard Name: Lee, Hermione

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Literary responses Anita Desai
Critic Hope Mary describes these stories as delicately composed,
qtd. in
Choudhury, Bidulata. Women and Society in the Novels of Anita Desai. Nice Printing Press, 1995.
43 and n15
while Hermione Lee judges them to be absolutely first-rate.
qtd. in
Choudhury, Bidulata. Women and Society in the Novels of Anita Desai. Nice Printing Press, 1995.
43 and n14
Literary responses Virginia Woolf
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...
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, 1996.
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, 1996.
369-70
Performance of text Virginia Woolf
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
Publishing Stevie Smith
Two years later Hermione Lee edited Stevie Smith: a Selection, and in 2015 Will May edited Smith's Collected Poems and Drawings.
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, 3 Apr. 2010, 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...
Reception Edith Wharton
EW 's literary career was achieved in face of the indifference or disapproval of her relations, who felt that to publish was to lose caste. In 1923 EW was awarded an Honorary DLitt by Yale University
Residence Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee notes that during this period [p]assionate celebrations of London filled the diaries and letters and spilled over into Mrs. Dalloway.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
474
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee reads the story as an imagined meeting between the Stephen sisters of Bloomsbury and their alternative selves (as they would have been if their lives had remained in the track mapped out for...
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
She classed Sickert as a literary painter, even while admitting that words could not touch or grasp the core of his paintings. Hermione Lee sees Sickert 's paintings of squalid London interiors as a major...
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee calls this VW 's novel of friendships, her Bloomsbury novel,
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
269
and in the context of its six characters she recalls Woolf's tracing Bloomsbury to six people who were remarkable for nothing but...
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron 's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
75-6
This farcical presentation of Victorian life...
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, 1989.
75

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