MOMENTS OF TRUTH - Softcover

Paperback. Pub Date :2002-09-02 Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK Accessible. jargon-free. and with her characteristic clear intelligence. Lorna Sage looks at the ways in which pre-war women writers. some famous. some less well known. invented themselves as authors in the face of the rigid conceptions of feminine creativity which prevailed at the time.Edith Wharton. Virginia Woolf. Katherine Mansfield. Jean Rhys. Christina Stead. Djuna Barnes. Violet Trefusis. Jane Bowles. Simone de Beauvoir. Christine Brooke-Rose. Iris Murdoch. Angela Carter.Moments of Truth demonstrates Lorna Sages characteristic clear intelligence and sheer versatility as a writer. bringing together introductions to much-loved 20th-century classics. fiercely intelligent essays and insightful. free- thinking journalism. A mixture of close reading with a breathtaking sensitivity to nu...