Good as her Word: Selected Journalism. Lorna Sage

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      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication

Introduction

I PRE-WAR LIFE WRITING

Grave-side story, Observer 18 June 1978

      Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley by Jane Dunn

Good as her word, Observer 14 December 1980

      Elizabeth Gaskell: A Portrait in Letters by J. A. V. Chapple

Flora by gaslight, Observer 24 January 1982

      The London Journal of Flora Tristan Jean Hawkes (trans. and ed.)

Life stories, 19 February 1984

      A Need to Testify: Four Portraits by Iris Origo

Strategy for survival, Observer 10 June 1984

      Secrets of a Woman’s Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling

Honest woman, Observer 5 May 1985

      Selections from George Eliot’s Letters Gordon S. Haight (ed.)

The girl from Mrs Kelly’s, Observer 28 September 1986

      Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma Lady Hamilton by Flora Fraser

Half of Shandy, Observer 28 December 1986

      Laurence Sterne: The Later Years by Arthur H. Cash

Nothing by halves, Observer 20 November 1988

      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

      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

First person singular, Observer 12 August 1979

      Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick

Client relationships, TLS 5 November 1982

      An English Madam: The Life and Work of Cynthia Payne by Paul Bailey

Orient of the mind, Observer 23 October 1983

      Profile of Lesley Blanch

Last testament, Observer 17 June 1984

      Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir

What a frightful bore it is to be Gore, Observer 15 November 1987

      Profile of Gore Vidal

Independent, 28 October 1989

      Obituary of Mary McCarthy

The deb who caught her muse, Observer 20 January 1991

       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

      Obituary essay Angela Carter

       The man they mistook for Marcel Proust, Observer 18 August 1991

      Obituary of Terry Kilmartin

       Boy in a box springs forth, Observer 28 March 1993

      Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster

       The secret sharer, Independent On Sunday 25 April 1993

       What Remains and Other Stories

      The Writer’s Dimension: Selected Essays by Christa Wolf

       In full spate, TLS 17 December 1993

      Obituary of Anthony Burgess

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