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	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Lorna Sage grew up in the Welsh Borders in a dirty, rambling old vicarage filled with the palpable hatred festering between her grandparents.
		Lorna's hair is left in plaits for days on end, and when she gets nits, Grandmother refuses to treat them as it would take too many kettles to boil the water for the shampoo.
		Sage's monitoring of a past age is acutely observed: the emergence of post-1955 teenagers as a 'tribe apart' - watching rock movies, shuffling awkwardly with moist-palmed boys at the school dance - while their disapproving mothers tried to be Constance Spry and their fathers scraped a postwar living.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4149914,00.html (196 words)

	Bad Blood: A Memoir Book at Shop Ireland
		Lorna Sage's memoir of childhood is a haunting, evocative book that captures life - and a life - in what she herself wonders if it's a timewarp: a tiny village half in England, half in Wales, half in the 20th century, half in the 19th.
		Sage, who escaped her roots to become a professor of English, was raised by seriously mismatched grandparents, he a drunken clergyman with a good face for funerals and an eye for the ladies, she a prissy, childish shopkeeper's daughter who wants the luxury life that's beyond a clergy stipend's means.
		Sage's icily elegant prose turns a neat phrase and is inflected with humour and understanding for her family and peers (such as her description of her friend Sheila as 'a pariah with wildly protruding teeth'), Not an easy book in many ways, but richly rewarding and oddly compelling.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/1841150436 (652 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: The Sins of the Fathers
		Sage attributes the difference between hergrandparents’ loathsome relationship and her parents’ loving one to her mother’s revulsion from the argument-filled atmosphere in which she grew up.
		Sage “had acquired from Grandpa (bad blood!) vanity, ambition and discontent along with literacy.” Yet though Sage is vain and selfish, she is also clever, shy and a book-lover.
		Sage is expected to give up and accept her plight as a teenage mother and failed scholar.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=180850 (727 words)

	Lorna Sage's Bad Blood: Of Books and Sex
		Lorna’s father returns from the war, her grandfather dies, and the family moves to a new neighborhood of "council homes," forcing Lorna to leave behind her favorite play yard, the church cemetery, and the dark gothic vicarage filled with nooks and crannies inviting escape and solitude.
		Sage evokes the landscape as lyrically as she delineates people: "Hanmer was a most picturesque place from a certain distance, but close up its substance was a heavy and strange.
		Lorna’s inherited "bad blood" boils throughout the 1950’s, roiling against the decade’s emphasis on conformity, against the provincial school district that disdained rather than encouraged a smart girl’s achievements, and against the circumscribed values of circumscribed communities.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_literature/91273/2 (461 words)

	The New York Review of Books: The Woman Who Did
		Lorna Sage, who died in January of last year, was known to a large British readership as a literary reviewer who, in the last years of her life, sick with emphysema, found the willpower and self-confidence to write a fascinating and best-selling autobiography.
		Sage calls her home "a secret slum," only a small part of which was kept clean, just as only a small proportion of the bodies of its inhabitants—the visible bits —would be kept washed.
		Sage turns out to be describing an unusual social mix, in which her grandfather, the vicar (in whose company she grows up, her father being away at the war), is a thoroughly disgraced drinker and womanizer, loathed by her grandmother.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/15480 (2545 words)

	New Statesman - Loving Lorna
		Lorna Sage's main concern in these 12 essays, which date mostly from the 1990s, is to look intently at the threads that connect women's writing lives with the actual stuff of life - tricky husbands, competitive friendships, mothers who won't let go.
		Sage, who died earlier this year, produced this work during a decade when "the author" had been dead for at least 20 years, and yet the "self" had never been more vocal, popping up everywhere in a flood of memoirs, travel narratives and first-person novels.
		Sage's concerns were eerily prescient, given what has happened to her own reputation as a writer in the past 12 months.
	www.newstatesman.com /200109170047 (1130 words)

	Lorna Sage (1943-2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Lorna Sage was the eldest child of Valma and Eric Stockton and was born at Hanmer, North Wales.
		Lorna went on to receive an MA from Birmingham University for a thesis on seventeenth century poetry.
		Lorna Sage will be remembered for her extensive literary journalism, but especially for contribution to the consideration of women's writing.
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /sage.htm (457 words)

	Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
		Lorna Sage has written a sharp, distressing, very touching chronicle of her personal experience of the fifties in a memoir titled Bad Blood.
		Lorna Sage tries in Bad Blood to understand her parents and grandparents - a task which was impossible for her when she was young and struggling to understand herself.
		Lorna Sage’s award-winning memoir, Bad Blood, is not only a delight to read, but it fulfills a need to document those strange years that built toward the sixties.
	www.llamagraphics.com /Meadow/Books/bookBadBlood.html (797 words)

	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; In Wales, Sliding Toward a Rebellion - New York Times
		Sage, an English professor and literary critic who died last year, conjures up her claustrophobic childhood in the small Welsh village of Hanmer with wit and unsentimental clarity.
		Blessed with a photographic memory, Sage is able to describe events with uncanny detail and precision, but her account is also animated by a subtle literary intelligence that adds resonance to her reminiscences by situating them within a matrix of earlier narratives and stories.
		When Sage became pregnant at the age of 16, her mother accused her of having inherited her grandfather's ''bad blood,'' his promiscuity and discontent, but in truth his most potent legacy would turn out to be his love of words and books.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E0DA1E3BF93AA15750C0A9649C8B63 (377 words)

	Obituary: Lorna Sage Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		LORNA SAGE was in essence a rebel, and an admirer of rebels.
		Sage did not write for her fellow academics nor was she ever seduced by the gnomic utterances and opaque prose which for a time took over aspects of literary criticism.
		She refused to be defined by her illness as she had refused to be defined by her upbringing or by the expectations of those who had underestimated her determination.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010113/ai_n9665775 (957 words)

	Bookreporter.com - BAD BLOOD by Lorna Sage
		Sage spends her earliest years growing up with her grandparents in north Wales, while her father is off fighting in the war.
		Sage believes she inherited her grandfather's passions, which in her, manifest themselves in bookish tendencies, although she notes, "I had acquired from Grandpa vanity, ambition and discontent along with literacy...my addiction to print was part of my general delinquency."
		Sage is partly rooted in an earlier time with her young family while, at the same time, she pursues a career that would be considered unusual for a woman in the early 1960s.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0060938080.asp (615 words)

	Guardian \| A life up in smoke
		What a fine thing it seemed that Lorna Sage's own literary talent had been recognised while she was still young enough to relish it: 57.
		It is Sage's astonishing will, as much as her intelligence, that makes Bad Blood so inspiring: she overcomes all obstacles, whether emotional, educational, financial; ignores doubters; defies her enemies - most memorably in the hospital where, as a schoolgirl, she gave birth to a daughter.
		She recalled his pipe smelling like a bonfire: "This was after his first stroke, when I was seven or eight years old, and he was supposed to cut down on smoking but instead extended his meagre ration and fed his habit with more or less anything combustible." He died soon after from a second stroke.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4119130-103390,00.html (1247 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Whitbread winner dies
		Lorna Sage, the writer, critic and academic whose memoir Bad Blood was recently named Whitbread Biography of the Year, has died.
		Sage, who was 57, had been unwell with emphysema for some time.
		When Bad Blood was published Sage described her grandparent's "hellish marriage" and told the BBC that her grandmother was "very good at hating and very satisfied by it".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/1113540.stm (475 words)

	UEA, EAS, David Wong Fellowship news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Lorna Sage Memorial Fund was established in 2001 at the University of East Anglia in order to encourage and support work in areas connected to Lorna Sage's particular interests, and that contributes to the remembrance and furtherance of Lorna Sage's work.
		The Lorna Sage Memorial Fund supports a prize of £500 for work of outstanding merit by students of the two MA courses with which Lorna herself was particularly associated - Studies in Fiction, and Life Writing.
		Such awards are made at the discretion of the Lorna Sage Memorial Fund management committee, based in the School of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
	www.uea.ac.uk /menu/acad_depts/eas/fellowships/lornasageresearchaward.shtml (252 words)

	From gothic gloom into light Spectator, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Lorna Sage is a well-respected critic and professor of English literature at the University of East Anglia.
		After Grandfather died, dramatically felled by a stroke in the pulpit, Lorna and her parents moved to a brand-new council house in the village.
		Hanmer village life, according to Sage, was hell in the sticks - a ghetto of cruelty and violence, poverty and economic decline where brutal, thickset men beat their wives and fathered bastards.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200009/ai_n8923073 (666 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bad Blood: Books: Lorna Sage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Whether this is voyeuristic is debatable, but clearly the author, Lorna Sage, felt she had something to tell, and she tells it vividly.
		Sage offers an unforgettable evocation of this bitter, hard-drinking, womanising cleric, as he strides through the desolate churchyard with his little granddaughter clinging onto his fl skirts in the wind.
		Sometimes, though, Sage's girlhood--we're only talking 1940s and 1950s here--feels more like it is something out of the pages of the Brontës, and indeed she acknowledges this freely.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1841150428 (344 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
		Lorna Sage's adventure in autobiography is a searing and funny anatomy of three marriages that brings to life her girlhood in postwar provincial Britain.
		Her early childhood was dominated by her brilliant, bitter grandfather, a drinker, a womanizer, a vicar, exiled to a remote village on the Welsh borders.
		From the vicarage Lorna watched the fading away of the old world and the slow dissolve of her grandparents' disastrous Union.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/bad_blood1.asp (514 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Tributes to 'brilliant' Sage
		Jon Cook, Dean of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, where Sage was Professor of English Literature, said: "We are stunned and deeply saddened by the death of Lorna Sage.
		Sage had worked as a critic for Literary Review, The New York Times and The Observer, where she met novelist Blake Morrison.
		But it was Bad Blood, the story of Sage's bizarre upbringing in the North Wales town of Hanmer that brought her to public notice.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/1113931.stm (453 words)

	Amazon.com: Bad Blood: A Memoir: Books: Lorna Sage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sage lived with head lice for over six years, because none of the household would admit that she had them.
		Sage's writing is so personalized, spare with the driest humor, she is a living presence.
		Lorna Sage speaks to us both eloquently and sparely in this story of her days as part of an unconventional family in the conventional Wales of the 1940s and 50s.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060938080?v=glance (2141 words)

	Miranda Online - Bad Blood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Lorna Sage grows up in post-war, pre-pill rural England; a witness to her grandparent’s disastrous union and her parents’ thwarted dreams.
		Longing to escape, Lorna vows she will never marry or have children, but finds herself pregnant without noticing she has lost her virginity.
		This is the story of one girl’s struggle to follow her dreams – a poignant, life-affirming journey that celebrates the power of the human spirit.
	www.miranda-richardson.com /mrbadblood.html (135 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| G2: Lorna Sage on her grandfather
		The 57-year-old academic Lorna Sage shot to prominence last year with her Whitbread prize-winning memoir Bad Blood.
		The young Lorna was educated at Whitchurch Girls' High School, where she met and married fellow pupil Victor Sage, by whom she had become pregnant.
		Carter was a great and much-missed friend, and in 1994 Sage edited a book of essays, Flesh and the Mirror, that paid tribute to her work.
	books.guardian.co.uk /whitbread2000/story/0,6194,421322,00.html (2176 words)

	A Magnificent Misfit
		Although most of the rural town's inhabitants knew their place and expected to stay there, Sage was a misfit in a family of misfits, much to her eventual advantage in the wider world.
		She can amuse us with this material in part because she writes as if she kept her distance from all of them, with the exception of her depressive and womanizing grandfather, the vicar of Hanmer's Anglican church, who imbued her with the "taste for words" that in large part determined the course of her life.
		Having spent her formative years in the "secret slum" of the vicarage, which "turned in on itself" away from the public square and in which "the bits no one could see" were "nearly never" washed, Sage was enamored of dark corners and creepy stories.
	www.theatlantic.com /issues/2002/04/schwarz.htm (424 words)

	Book Time at Pear Tree Farm
		Lorna Sage died just after this won the Whitbread Biography Award in 2001.
		We escape with Lorna to a slightly brighter but no less turbulent life with a family of her own and the pit of demons that becomes.
		Lorna Sage’s lucid and authoritative study: "The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English" (1999) and "Flesh and the mirror"; "Essays on the art of Angela Carter" (1994) or "Women in the house of fiction" (1992)
	www.peartree-farm.co.uk /booktime.htm (701 words)

	Books \| Lorna Sage 1943-2001
		Lorna Sage, who died last week, was one of the final links to some of the golden years of The Observer's literary pages under the editorship of Terence Kilmartin.
		A lifelong academic, with a string of influential critical books on women's writing and important studies of both Doris Lessing (1983) and Angela Carter (1994), she brought to her book reviewing a writer's sensibility and a perceptive generosity that made an important and lasting contribution to the tone of our books pages.
		Lorna Sage, a doughty veteran of English literary life, would have been the first to appreciate the irony.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4116751-106427,00.html (298 words)

	Bad Blood: by Lorna Sage
		Lorna Sage's autobiography is a searing and funny anatomy of three marriages.
		Her early childhood was dominated by her brilliant, bitter grandfather, a boozer, a womanizer, a vicar exiled to a remote village on the Welsh borders.
		Living with her real parents she quickly learns that the post-war world is full of secrets and myths that mark her family--her mother's thwarted dreams, her father's addiction to work, and mysterious emotional economy of their proper marriage.
	www.harpercollins.com /book/index.aspx?isbn=9780060771645 (532 words)

	UEA: 40th Anniversary Events
		Lorna Sage played an important part in the development and study of literature at UEA in her 35 years as a lecturer in the School of English and American Studies.
		Her writing has enjoyed success throughout the years, and she was awarded the Whitbread prize for Biography for Bad Blood just before her untimely death in 2001.
		Edited by Sharon Sage and Victor Sage, As Good As Her Word is a collection of Lorna’s journalism.
	www.uea.ac.uk /40th.html (2043 words)

	Bloomsbury.com - News and gossip
		The category winners for the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award are: Bad Blood by Lorna Sage (biography), English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (novel), White Teeth by Zadie Smith (first novel) and The Asylum Dance by John Burnside (poetry).
		For the last four years, volumes of poetry have received the £22,500 top prize (Seamus Heaney in 1996 and 1999; Ted Hughes in 1997 and 1998).
		While that sequence may come to an end, Lorna Sage's acclaimed autobiography might just have that special Whitbread combination.
	www.bloomsbury.com /writersarea/inthepress.asp?ITPW_Id=45 (179 words)

	Bad Blood: A Memoir - Lorna Sage - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		This book is more than an autobiography, it is a social history, taking you from the late forties to the dawn of the swinging sixties.
		It tells the reader a lot about family life, and societies views through the eyes of Lorna Sage.
		Lorna grew up in Hanmer on the Welsh borders.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/bad-blood-a-memoir-lorna-sage (286 words)

	HINDI - DAISY STORIES - THE SEARCH FOR LORNA
		Kya shree Hamphreez ka bhee khyaal hai ki Lorna kaa apaharan kiyaa gayaa hai?"
		Hamane Lorna ko milakar khareeda thaa," shreematee Humphries ne javaab diyaa.
		Oh Lorna- l've found you at last!" said Mrs.
	www.lonweb.org /daisy/ds-hindi-lorna.htm (586 words)

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