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Lorna Sage

Lorna Sage (1943 – 2001) was an critic and writer. Her books include Women in the House of Fiction, Flesh and the Mirror and a memoir, Bad Blood, which won the Whitbread Biography award, a week before her death.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition padlock
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition padlock

Death of the Author

Lorna Sage

‘Her genius for estrangement came out of a thin-skinned extremity of response to the circumstances of her life and to the signs of the times.’

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 3 padlock

Invasion from Outsiders

Lorna Sage

‘It seems necessary to say at the outset that I find the English novel a problematic entity, difficult to be properly sensible about.’

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