Lorna Sage

Lorna Sage (13 January 1943 – 11 January 2001) was a Welsh-born, English academic, literary critic, book reviewer, editor, and author. Her memoir Bad Blood (Sage book) Bad Blood (2000) won the Costa Book Awards 2000 Whitbread Book Award in Biography. Quotes Thomas Love Peacock#Later life He has imbibed the classical spirit so thoroughly that he cares for nothing except what might commend itself to a virtuoso Pagan, and thinks only as men thought before Christianity awoke them to the consciousness of sin, of suffering, and of immortality. Peacock: The Satirical Novels Casebook series Macmillan 1976 9780333184103 https://books.google.com/books?id=MB4JAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=imbibed 77 (253 pages) ... she saw herself to be: a demystifier, a critical observer of social processes and systems, an outsider who could see through to the inside, a radical realist. Lessing's initial creative roots lie in this Left Book Club critical, political culture ... Doris Lessing Methuen's Contemporary writers series London Methuen Publishing 1983 9780416317305 https://books.google.com/books?id=tla9AAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=demystifier 24 (91 pages) Angela Carter cultivated the role of fairy godmother and/or witch, and — in the The Bloody Chamber (short story) The Bloody Chamber (1979) — rewrote the Bluebeard Bluebeard story with pistol-toting Mother riding to the rescue at the last minute. Angela Carter Writers and their work, OUP series 2nd Oxford University Press 2007 9780746311455 https://books.google.com/books?id=MTVtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA5 5 (1st edition 1994; 78 pages) My grandfather was the subject of my best stories. ... He behaved fantastically badly. ... My grandfather was a priest of the Church of England in Wales ... He was, as it turned out, certainly a boozer, a womanizer — this I had always known about him ... He was also, interestingly enough, very much a sort of a disappointed writer ... A reading from ‘Bad Blood’ and discussion by Lorna Sage; Lorna Sage archives Omeka https://lornasagearchives.omeka.net/items/show/4 (quote at 3:12 of 8:43 in video) Bad Blood: A Memoir (2000) Grandfather's skirts would flop in the wind along the churchyard path and I would hang on. He often found things to do in the vestry, excuses for getting out of the Clergy house vicarage (kicking the swollen door, cursing) and so long as he took me he couldn't get up to much. I was a sort of hobble; he was my minder and I was his. ... He was good at funerals, being gaunt and lined, marked with mortality. He had a scar down his hollow cheek too, which Grandma had done with the carving knife one of the many times he had come home pissed and incapable. Bad Blood e-book Perennial 2003 9780060938086 https://books.google.com/books?id=EsD_zHhljmUC&pg=PP20#v=onepage&q=hobble&f=false 3 (1st edition 2000 published by Fourth Estate) ... never frequent enough to explain the amount of wine he got through ... Eventually the Church stopped his supply and after that the communicants got watered-down Sanatogen from Boots the chemist in Whitchurch, Shropshire Whitchurch, over the Shropshire border. Bad Blood Fourth Estate 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=gVIRsS5dYP0C&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=whitchurch 6 (281 pages) Agriculture in Wales Farming life seemed a perpetual-motion machine, or an effect of gravity, something cyclic and unstoppable. p. 134 (2001 Fourth Estate) The only person who knew what was in the books was my mother's brother, Uncle Bill, and affected to despise them. He said that fiction was a waste of time, the opium of the bourgeoisie, that you had to get a real grip on the facts of life. p. 180 (2001 Fourth Estate) External links Category:1943 births Category:2001 deaths Category:Academics from Wales Category:Autobiographers from the United Kingdom Category:Critics from the United Kingdom Category:Editors from Wales Category:Memoirists from the United Kingdom Category:Non-fiction authors from Wales Category:University of Birmingham alumni Category:Women authors from Wales Category:Women born in the 1940s Category:Women journalists from Wales