Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
287, 290
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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 |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
names | Virginia Woolf | Her first Christian name, never used, was given in memory of her mother's sister, who died shortly before Virginia's birth. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 99 |
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. |
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... |
Literary responses | Susan Hill | 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
. Lee, Hermione. “Like Buttons in a Box”. Guardian Unlimited. |
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... |
Literary responses | Pat Barker | 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 | Doris Lessing | The following year she won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, which The Author called the best and most worthy of all literary prizes, Parker, Derek. “On the Side”. The Author, Vol. cxii , No. 2, pp. 86-8. 87 |
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 |
Literary responses | Julia O'Faolain | This novel was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Hermione Lee
praised it in the Observer for presenting the inter-relationship between family and national history, while Robert Nye
in the Guardian called it one of the... |
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