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1943–2001 United Kingdom
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 (2000) won the 2000 Whitbread Book Award in Biography.
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Farming life seemed a perpetual-motion machine, or an effect of gravity, something cyclic and unstoppable.
Bad Blood: A Memoir (2000)
Angela Carter cultivated the role of fairy godmother and/or witch, and — in the The Bloody Chamber (1979) — rewrote the Bluebeard story with pistol-toting Mother riding to the rescue at the last minute.
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.
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.
Bad Blood: A Memoir (2000)