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Professor of English at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, Lorna Sage was an academic, critic, writer and literary journalist. She was a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and the New York Times Book Review. She was the author of Women in the House of Fiction: Post-War Women Novelists, Doris Lessing and Angela Carter; she edited collections of critical essays on Thomas Love Peacock and Angela Carter (Flesh and the Mirror) and works by John Milton, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. She wrote on Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Hardy, George Meredith, Violet Trefusis, Christina Stead, Jane Bowles and Simone de Beauvoir. Her memoir, Bad Blood, won the Whitbread award for biography and autobiography in 2000, a week before her early death.

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Professor of English at the University of Warwick, England, Germaine Greer is an academic, a writer and a critic. She is the author of The Female Eunuch, The Madwoman's Underclothes, Untamed Shrew, The Whole Woman and Slip-Shod Sibyls. Professor of English at Princeton University, USA, Elaine Showalter is the author of A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bront‘ to Lessing, The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and Society 1830-1980, Sexual Anarchy, Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing and Hystories.


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