Lorna Sage

Standard Name: Sage, Lorna

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Christine Brooke-Rose
Lorna Sage hailed this novel as science fiction of the subversive sort.
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Literary responses Germaine Greer
A female gynaecologist mentioned in the book as uncaring and insensitive successfully sued Greer for damages.
Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books, 1999.
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The Penguin paperback which followed the year after publication came garlanded with praise from British feminist writers: Wendy Cope
Literary responses Patricia Highsmith
Despite positive reviews by Lorna Sage in The Observer Review and Geoffrey Elborn in Guardian Weekly, Brooks Peters in Out says that the novel was not well received in England. However, the year...
Literary responses Angela Carter
Anthony Burgess praised AC for doing something in this novel which she did in later ones as well: looking at the mess of contemporary life without flinching.
Lee, Alison. Angela Carter. Twayne, 1997.
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Claire Harman points out surreal characters, the...
Literary responses Rosamond Lehmann
Auberon Waugh likened A Sea-Grape Tree to pulp romance, The Times thought it unintentionally absurd, and Lorna Sage called the main characters paper people. Thoughtful and positive comments from Elizabeth Jane Howard
Literary responses Angela Carter
Carter herself called this book a juicy, overblown, exploding gothic lollipop.
qtd. in
Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 21, 3 Nov. 2016, pp. 7-14.
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Lorna Sage saw it as sceptically exploring Otherness, and demonstrating that escaping patriarchy does not mean escaping mythologies. Linden Peach commented that after...
Literary responses Iris Murdoch
Reviewers were divided in their opinions of the book. Lorna Sage in the Times Literary Supplement praised it as a hilarious mystic farce,
qtd. in
Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research, 1982–1983.
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while Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times expressed...
Publishing Violet Trefusis
It was reprinted in English as one of Virago 's Modern Classics series in 1983, with an introduction by Lorna Sage , who found in VT an unexpected self-awareness
Sage, Lorna, and Violet Trefusis. “Introduction”. Hunt the Slipper, Virago, 1983, p. v - xiv.
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and called this work a...
Reception Jeanette Winterson
One reviewer seeing positive aspects of the novel was Rachel Cusk in The Times, who admired Winterson's blending of invention and compassion, and found the novel exciting though also linguistically infuriating. Another sympathetic reviewer,...
Reception Violet Trefusis
Michael Holroyd suggests in the Afterword to A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters—Absent Fathers, 2010, that scholarly interest in Vita Sackville-West created a biassed climate for the reception of VT . Whatever vessel set...
Residence E. Owens Blackburne
EOB moved to London to begin her career as a full-time writer.
Critic Lorna Sage gives the date of her move as 1873.
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols.
Textual Features Angela Carter
Lorna Sage noted that South America is an apt setting for this novel, since the essays and stories of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges show a similar blending of the fantastical and the documentary (...
Textual Production Germaine Greer
GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...

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