Hermione Lee

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.

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...

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 also observes that the rhetoric...

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.

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

Two years later Hermione Lee edited Stevie Smith: a Selection, and in 2015 Will May edited Smith's Collected Poems and Drawings.

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...

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

Biographer Hermione Lee announcing in early April 2010 that she was working on PF , with access to her papers, and, best of all, her library of books with their many personal annotations. These...

Hermione Lee notes that during this period [p]assionate celebrations of London filled the diaries and letters and spilled over into Mrs. Dalloway.

Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron 's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there. This farcical presentation of Victorian life...

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.

This summary may suggest to modern ears a cut-and-dried tale of goodies and baddies, but the motivations of all the central characters are mixed, and a large cast of subsidiary characters enacts complexity where a...

While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive in the eyes of some, the heroine here defies such a one-sided image. Leonard Woolf found Mary Jocelyn very reserved...

Hermione Lee reads the story as an imagined meeting between the Stephen sisters of Bloomsbury and their alternative selves (as they would have been if their lives had remained in the track mapped out for...