Bad Blood (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Lorna Sage
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The 1930’s to the 1960’s
- Setting: Hanmer, a small village in Flintshire, Wales; Whitchurch, Shropshire, England
- Principal Characters: Grandpa, Grandma, Mother, Father, Lorna, Vic
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Women’s literature
- Subjects: Language or languages, 1960’s, Wives, Mothers, Parents and children, Education or educators, Villages, 1930’s, England or English people, Feminism, Blackmail, Adultery, Women, Grandparents or grandchildren, Reading, Career women, Homemakers, Great Britain, Wales or Welsh people
- Locales: Wales, Shropshire, England
Lorna Sage was considered by many to be a “lipstick feminist,” an academic who wrote perceptively on women’s literature and advocated intellectual and social equality for women, but who also refused to reject the typically feminine accoutrements of make-up, high heels, and beauty. James Fenton’s essay on Bad Blood in The New York Review of Books, for instance, was not so much a review of the book as his own memoir of Sage’s enormous personal charm and attractiveness. To more radical feminists, who regard such qualities and habits as signs of complicity in...
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