Lorna Sage - Good as her Word - Selected Journalism

Edited by Sharon Sage and Victor Sage

For Olivia

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Introduction

I PRE-WAR LIFE WRITING

Grave-side story, Observer 18 June 1978

Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley by Jane Dunn

Good as her word, Observer 14 December 1980

Elizabeth Gaskell: A Portrait in Letters by J. A. V. Chapple

Flora by gaslight, Observer 24 January 1982

The London Journal of Flora Tristan Jean Hawkes (trans. and ed.)

Life stories, 19 February 1984

A Need to Testify: Four Portraits by Iris Origo

Strategy for survival, Observer 10 June 1984

Secrets of a Woman’s Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling

Honest woman, Observer 5 May 1985

Selections from George Eliot’s Letters Gordon S. Haight (ed.)

The girl from Mrs Kelly’s, Observer 28 September 1986

Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma Lady Hamilton by Flora Fraser

Half of Shandy, Observer 28 December 1986

Laurence Sterne: The Later Years by Arthur H. Cash

Nothing by halves, Observer 20 November 1988

The Letters of Edith Wharton R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis (eds)

The bright, ferocious flames of his internal ether, Observer 27 June 1993

The Letters Of Charles Dickens: Volume VII, 1853–1855, The Pilgrim Edition Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson and Angus Easson (eds)

II POST-WAR LIFE WRITING

First person singular, Observer 12 August 1979

Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick

Client relationships, TLS 5 November 1982

An English Madam: The Life and Work of Cynthia Payne by Paul Bailey

Orient of the mind, Observer 23 October 1983

Profile of Lesley Blanch

Last testament, Observer 17 June 1984

Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir

What a frightful bore it is to be Gore, Observer 15 November 1987

Profile of Gore Vidal

Independent , 28 October 1989

Obituary of Mary McCarthy

The deb who caught her muse, Observer 20 January 1991

Necessary Secrets: The Journals of Elizabeth Smart

The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart

Death of the Author, Granta 41, 1991

Obituary essay Angela Carter

The man they mistook for Marcel Proust, Observer 18 August 1991

Obituary of Terry Kilmartin

Boy in a box springs forth, Observer 28 March 1993

Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster

The secret sharer, Independent On Sunday 25 April 1993

What Remains and Other Stories

The Writer’s Dimension: Selected Essays by Christa Wolf

In full spate, TLS 17 December 1993

Obituary of Anthony Burgess

Secret agonies and allergies, Guardian 24 April 1994

Elizabeth Bishop, One Art: Selected Letters Robert Giroux (ed.)

Home is where the art is, south of the psyche, Observer 15 May 1994

The Still Moment: Eudora Welty, Portrait of a Writer by Paul Binding

Surviving in the wrong, TLS 4 November 1994

The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm

Alone in the middle of it all, TLS 9 june 1995

Angus Wilson: A Biography by Margaret Drabble

Living like a poet, or, Hello to all that, Guardian 2 July 1995

Life on the Edge by Miranda Seymour

Robert Graves: His Life and Work by Martin Seymour-Smith

Collected Writings on Poetry by Robert Graves

The culture hero’s vision of sameness, Guardian 16 July 1995

F. R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism by Ian MacKillop

Landlocked, LRB 25 January 2001

Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by Jeremy Treglown

III THE WOMEN’S CAMP

The old girl network, TLS 30 September 1977

Literary Women by Ellen Moers

The heroine as hero, TLS 14 April 1978

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Aurora Leigh and Other Poems introduced by Cora Kaplan

A contrary Muse, TLS 29 September 1978

Lawrence and Women Anne Smith (ed.)

Practical ecstasies, Observer 28 January 1979

St Teresa of Avila by Stephen Clissold

Hearts of stone, Observer 27 October 1985

Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form by Marina Warner

Sisters of Sisyphus, Observer 26 January 1986

Beyond Power: Women, Men and Morals by Marilyn French

Staying outside the skin, TLS 16 October 1987

Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin

Women by Naim Attallah

Woman’s whole existence, Observer 28 February 1988

Women and Love: The New Hite Report by Shere Hite

Forever black suspenders, Observer 24 January 1993

Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle and the Making of Sally Bowles by Linda Mizejewski

Right but Romantic, TLS 25 June 1993

Romanticism and Gender by Anne K. Mellor

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

News from the revolution that never was, Independent On Sunday 26 September 1993

Sexing the Millennium by Linda Grant

TLS 21 December 1993

Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Hélène Cixous

Farewell Lady Nicotine, Observer 2 January 1994

Cigarettes are Sublime by Richard Klein

The women’s camp, TLS 15 July 1994

Article on critical theory

Paean to gaiety, LRB 22 September 1994

The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture by Terry Castle

A record of honourable defeat, THES 17 February 1995

No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3, Letters from the Front by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

They lived for their work, Los Angeles Times Book Review , 7 January 1996

Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives by Natalie Zemon Davis

The Goddess of More: Parallels between ancient novels and the new womanism, TLS 9 August 1996

The True Story of the Novel by Margaret Anne Doody

Learning new titles, TLS 17 March 2000

Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century by Susan Gubar

Mother’s back, LRB 18 May 2000

What Is a Woman? and Other Essays by Toril Moi

IV CLASSICS

Daringly distasteful, TLS 26 April 1974

Keats and Embarrassment by Christopher Ricks

Gay old times in Greece, Observer 1 October 1978

Greek Homosexuality by K. J. Dover

Victorian fun and games, Observer 24 December 1978

No Name by Wilkie Collins

Observer Magazine 24 June 1979