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Lorna Sage
Lorna Sage was professor of English at the University of East Anglia and twice dean of the faculty. She regularly reviewed for the Observer, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement and New York Times Book Review. Her previous books include Women in the House of Fiction (1992), The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English (1999), a short monograph on Angela Carter, and Bad Blood, which won the 2000 Whitbread Biography Award and became a number one bestseller. She died in January 2001, and ‘Moments of Truth: Twelve Twentieth-Century Women Writers’ (2002) and ‘Good As Her Word: Selected Journalism’ (2004) were published posthumously .
BAD BLOOD: A Memoir
From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women.
Publication date: UK 16th Sep 2010
GOOD AS HER WORD: Selected Journalism
A sparkling collection of journalism from the critically acclaimed author of BAD BLOOD and MOMENTS OF TRUTH.
Publication date: UK 1st Jul 2008
MOMENTS OF TRUTH: Twelve Twentieth-Century Women Writers
Accessible, jargon-free, and with her characteristic clear intelligence, Lorna Sage looks at the ways in which pre-war women writers, some famous, some less well known, invented themselves as authors in the face of the rigid conceptions of feminine creativity which prevailed at the time.
Publication date: UK 2nd Sep 2002