Hermione Lee

Standard Name: Lee, Hermione

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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 Flora Macdonald Mayor
While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
4223 (9 March 1984): 238
in the eyes of some, the heroine here defies such a one-sided image. Leonard Woolf found Mary Jocelyn very reserved...
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.
75
Textual Production Julia Strachey
JS wrote the novel while staying with her aunt Dorothy Bussy 's family at Roquebrune in France, informally separated from her first husband, Stephen Tomlin .
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown.
113, 116
After finishing her manuscript, she sent...
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...
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...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee points out that in this year—a typical one, though broken by illness—Woolf's productivity included making final pre-publication revisions to a novel and an essay collection, beginning work on another novel, writing eight...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
Later reprints often appeared as The Common Reader, First Series. VW took her title from a formulation of Samuel Johnson 's, meaning that non-specialist, non-academic reader to whose taste, said Johnson, he was always...
Violence Virginia Woolf
VW did not discuss this incident specifically until the last years of her life. Hermione Lee , who considers the matter as fully as possible, argues that it would be rash to ignore or belittle...

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