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Good as her Word: Selected Journalism
Lorna Sage
Victor Sage
Sharon Sage
A sparkling collection of journalism from the critically acclaimed author of BAD BLOOD and MOMENTS OF TRUTH.This selection of the work of Lorna Sage spans the years 1972-2001, when she wrote for the London and New York literary papers and journals, and contains some of her very best pieces. From carefully worked interviews and profiles to the snappiest and deftest of weekly reviews, we can trace the often surprising development of that very distinctive voice and follow its sharpest critical reactions to the important authors and landmark publications of our times.From George Eliot, Laurence Sterne, Charles Dickens and Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath, Angela Carter, Umberto Eco and Salman Rushdie, Sage's unmistakable voice is here: clever, hilarious, anarchic, sly, wise, kind, courageous, genial and serious.
LORNA SAGE
Good As Her Word
Selected Journalism
Edited by Sharon Sage and Victor Sage
Dedication (#u416cc863-49a3-5a39-a94a-7e672d0a50f8)
For Olivia
Contents
Cover (#u63b9fe5a-2624-5ccb-80bc-dda4e0f270d1)
Title Page (#u420ff90e-e19e-5f45-8512-8514d3e65588)
Dedication (#u73b49a8a-f821-568b-85f3-5ae643b72205)
Introduction (#ud030f044-9125-5008-a9b0-60c0adad119b)
I PRE-WAR LIFE WRITING (#ub6982c84-c508-51bf-84bf-a7c9e65874ca)
Grave-side story, Observer 18 June 1978 (#u024112fa-1318-5801-8373-fe8392412eb0)
Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley by Jane Dunn
Good as her word, Observer 14 December 1980 (#u45e2c94e-0312-5582-bced-0d2aa800998a)
Elizabeth Gaskell: A Portrait in Letters by J. A. V. Chapple
Flora by gaslight, Observer 24 January 1982 (#u08384c5e-23ae-5769-96d3-cebe2b70116b)
The London Journal of Flora Tristan Jean Hawkes (trans. and ed.)
Life stories, 19 February 1984 (#u6676863b-010c-523b-9071-16fd69ee1444)
A Need to Testify: Four Portraits by Iris Origo
Strategy for survival, Observer 10 June 1984 (#u2eabee87-853d-5102-b7f1-fd89c766664d)
Secrets of a Woman’s Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling
Honest woman, Observer 5 May 1985 (#ufc790e0c-fdae-5244-8792-fc964431c483)
Selections from George Eliot’s Letters Gordon S. Haight (ed.)
The girl from Mrs Kelly’s, Observer 28 September 1986 (#ua386a7f4-f541-5390-8b67-f4116493bec7)
Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma Lady Hamilton by Flora Fraser
Half of Shandy, Observer 28 December 1986 (#uedef152c-c462-5370-a45b-48b68bb536b4)
Laurence Sterne: The Later Years by Arthur H. Cash
Nothing by halves, Observer 20 November 1988 (#u33b3beae-7d2b-59a1-ba6a-b1850d2bb915)
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 (#u2f7a492e-c912-5a21-8055-32d0b7ccb247)
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 (#u37921bba-ffb6-5a96-82e0-4ebc07101113)
First person singular, Observer 12 August 1979 (#u0f910e15-66df-584d-813e-9d0d2227f791)
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
Client relationships, TLS 5 November 1982 (#u67e57fb8-aaef-524b-a20c-7af4b4d5520d)
An English Madam: The Life and Work of Cynthia Payne by Paul Bailey
Orient of the mind, Observer 23 October 1983 (#u5ac220a2-51cf-53dc-9f80-0f2a75482e5c)
Profile of Lesley Blanch
Last testament, Observer 17 June 1984 (#u0ef76aaa-7c6f-57d4-90c1-17cb3415d6f9)
Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
What a frightful bore it is to be Gore, Observer 15 November 1987 (#u31e9dfd9-c7ac-5cd3-8e57-4537b1268b7e)
Profile of Gore Vidal
Independent, 28 October 1989 (#ue9a800fb-9a74-5eda-a5ef-a02ae2e9b8b4)
Obituary of Mary McCarthy
The deb who caught her muse, Observer 20 January 1991 (#u48bda6e5-680b-5532-98bf-91fb8f606de9)
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 (#ua8d979f7-4d13-56ce-8433-107fdd7fab11)
Obituary essay Angela Carter
The man they mistook for Marcel Proust, Observer 18 August 1991 (#u94f49680-91e9-5a8b-a015-f9a87ecfaa2d)
Obituary of Terry Kilmartin
Boy in a box springs forth, Observer 28 March 1993 (#ud7dcb2ed-a87e-52d1-b034-c4c15c4c08fb)
Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster
The secret sharer, Independent On Sunday 25 April 1993 (#u3ff4b0bb-68d3-5a94-a780-c9c74bc3bdf7)
What Remains and Other Stories
The Writer’s Dimension: Selected Essays by Christa Wolf
In full spate, TLS 17 December 1993 (#udedcecee-9384-55a5-aeca-da9c1cffe3fc)
Obituary of Anthony Burgess
Secret agonies and allergies, Guardian 24 April 1994 (#ude92f0ea-7253-5271-a715-1b9df8640af5)
Elizabeth Bishop, One Art: Selected Letters Robert Giroux (ed.)
Home is where the art is, south of the psyche, Observer 15 May 1994 (#u5ba09b48-b1d5-5207-b9f4-f8ecb66e5b38)
The Still Moment: Eudora Welty, Portrait of a Writer by Paul Binding
Surviving in the wrong, TLS 4 November 1994 (#ua4dfa6b2-0e91-5cef-a3c6-c287b0ba8a7f)
The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
Alone in the middle of it all, TLS 9 june 1995 (#u429c44d9-dc01-533d-a720-a9aaa7622c79)
Angus Wilson: A Biography by Margaret Drabble
Living like a poet, or, Hello to all that, Guardian 2 July 1995 (#uf8cdbb72-d44c-5a47-bece-ada803f2f680)
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 (#uefd5ce36-3525-5360-8ac8-f27e10abb676)
F. R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism by Ian MacKillop
Landlocked, LRB 25 January 2001 (#uc63a6988-7214-54d6-afc7-bed47ecf9b98)
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by Jeremy Treglown
III THE WOMEN’S CAMP (#ue8fd3b8f-d41f-5275-94a8-6f8645dc0293)
The old girl network, TLS 30 September 1977 (#u312d443f-a275-57c4-97b5-28b37ca54e18)
Literary Women by Ellen Moers
The heroine as hero, TLS 14 April 1978 (#u91cc3480-0878-59ad-b4e3-b928b2ee4880)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Aurora Leigh and Other Poems introduced by Cora Kaplan
A contrary Muse, TLS 29 September 1978 (#u27903d98-ab6d-521f-a425-d7b8173de35f)
Lawrence and Women Anne Smith (ed.)
Practical ecstasies, Observer 28 January 1979 (#u32e5b635-3f15-58c3-9c0d-9b597fe600a4)
St Teresa of Avila by Stephen Clissold
Hearts of stone, Observer 27 October 1985 (#ufbabf7e1-049a-587f-9f91-10e4aaf0459c)
Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form by Marina Warner
Sisters of Sisyphus, Observer 26 January 1986 (#ub691820e-213c-585d-8102-99133103d867)
Beyond Power: Women, Men and Morals by Marilyn French
Staying outside the skin, TLS 16 October 1987 (#uf1d5745d-0fa6-599c-ad70-32b478e72873)
Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin
Women by Naim Attallah
Woman’s whole existence, Observer 28 February 1988 (#u0ce82c31-83fd-5b26-a8b4-9e99661755e9)
Women and Love: The New Hite Report by Shere Hite
Forever black suspenders, Observer 24 January 1993 (#udbd0cfbd-e0ce-5865-986e-966906eae22e)
Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle and the Making of Sally Bowles by Linda Mizejewski
