Sarah Lefanu

MD 's story The Last Priestess appeared in God. An Anthology of Fiction (edited by Stephen Hayward and Sarah Lefanu , 1992).

Since then ZF has published stories in such places as Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, the Women's Press , 1985, edited by Jen Green and Sarah Lefanu .

Raccoona's final story, Morality Meat (published in Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, edited by Jen Green and Sarah Lefanu , 1985), imagines a horrific world in which abortion is outlawed and...

Roberts re-issued her Anger, together with another story she called God's House, in a volume also titled God's House, 1996. (This second story had appeared in a different Serpent's Tail anthology, God...

Another contributed piece is MR 's Lists in Obsession, a volume of short stories on this topic, edited by Sarah Lefanu and Stephen Hayward , 1995. Her story (reprinted in revised form in Playing...

JK 's God, An Untitled Story appeared in God: an Anthology of Fiction, edited by Stephen Hayward and Sarah Lefanu in 1992. Other contributors included Michèle Roberts , Maureen Duffy , and Bapsi Sidhwa .

Biographer Sarah Lefanu writes that she had been his best child, while he had been a model for her beliefs, her aspirations and her conduct.

MR 's memoir, Paper Houses, features a huge roster of close friends warmly evoked, some of them long-term commitments and others belonging to some particular period of her life. They include many women who...

According to biographers, she also suffered a nervous breakdown at this time. Sarah Lefanu reckons that she had several breakdowns during her life: after the death of her brother Aulay, and perhaps also at the...

Lefanu suggests that Tudor's obsession with the idea of honey for tea, in his nostalgia for childhood as sanctuary from his present painful life, was a source in the evolution of Rupert Brooke 's famous...

RM later wrote, it's really a book for those who have travelled to the same place, or are about to.Elizabeth Bowen called it an enchanting book, of high intelligence. Biographer Sarah Lefanu

The Times obituary noted her novels' continued power to enchant, but stressed particularly her personal appeal. Few writers this century inspired so quick and so lasting an affection among people of every kind. Her...

Sarah Lefanu finds it feeble and mannered compared with RM 's recent titles. She gives a similarly low rating to Going Abroad, 1934, and I Would Be Private, 1937.

RM 's letters to friends are full of life and fun. Sarah Lefanu 's biography reproduces on its end-papers one to a child which is full of pictograms: My dear Mary has a picture of...

This is her sole historical novel and the only one to reflect her long-standing interest in the seventeenth century. Set between October 1640 and May 1641, the period of the Long Parliament, the novel portrays...