qtd. in
Choudhury, Bidulata. Women and Society in the Novels of Anita Desai. Nice Printing Press, 1995.
43 and n15
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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