Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, 2004, pp. 119-34.
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Dedications | Michèle Roberts | The title story is dedicated to Lorna Sage
, and the volume as a whole to her memory. Various other stories are dedicated to other friends and writers. Some were originally written for radio. Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, 2004, pp. 119-34. 131-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Fortune | Indeed, her whole motivation at this time is murky: though she apparently had a work-related reason, she may have been escaping from her marriage. Lorna Sage
, following Lucy Sussex
, suggested that MF
was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Carter | In Japan AC
had a younger lover, Sozo Araki
, whom she calls Taro after a fictional character known as Momotaro or Peach Boy, who later had some success as a writer himself. Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol. 38 , No. 21, 3 Nov. 2016, pp. 7-14. 11-12 |
Friends, Associates | Christine Brooke-Rose | Muriel Spark
, a very old friend of CBR
, Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press, 2002. 42 |
Friends, Associates | Angela Carter | Her literary friends included Lorna Sage
and Salman Rushdie
, a fellow campaigner against the Falklands War. Through her contributions to the London Review of Books she formed a friendship with Susannah Clapp
, an... |
Health | Angela Carter | AC
said that she was a ravaged anorexic during her ludicrously overprotected adolescence. Carter, Angela. Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings: Angela Carter. 1st ed., Chatto and Windus, 1997. 22 |
Health | Angela Carter | Carter had not planned to get pregnant but intended to go ahead. Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 177 |
Literary responses | Angela Carter | Lorna Sage
and Linden Peach
both considered this book very useful as a context for reading AC
's fiction. Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press, 1998. 2 Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research, 1982–1983. 14: 212 |
Literary responses | Angela Carter | At the very end of her life, AC
still felt that she was unrecognised, Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 194 |
Literary responses | Maureen Duffy | Lorna Sage
wrote that the trilogy made MDthe city's self-appointed laureate. qtd. in Platt, Edward. “25 Years fighting for writers’ rights”. ALCS News, No. 21, July 2002, pp. 4-5. 4 |
Literary responses | Maureen Duffy | Reviewer Lorna Sage
saw the book as an example of bricolage, with an underlying mysticism complicating the matter-of-fact world of daily life. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 68 |
Literary responses | Elaine Feinstein | Lorna Sage
in the Times Literary Supplement used the word obsessed about Feinstein's interest in the persistence of the past in her characters' lives. . . . The last war, the holocaust, the webs of... |
Literary responses | E. Owens Blackburne | In the same preface EOB
promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth
, apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen. Between the publication of the two volumes, however, Wordsworth's son forbade... |
Literary responses | Christine Brooke-Rose | Lorna Sage
in The Observer described Amalgamemnon as an elegant, rueful and witty word-game about what it feels like to be a word-addict—worse, a writing addict. qtd. in “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Literary responses | Marina Warner | Reviews, including those by Lorna Sage
in the Times Literary Supplement, Ann Cornelisen
in the New York Times Book Review, and Michiko Kakutani
in the New York Times, were generally positive. They... |