13 Facts About Lorna Sage

Lorna Sage was an English academic, literary critic and author, remembered especially for contributing to consideration of women's writing and for a memoir of her early life, Bad Blood.

Lorna Sage taught English literature at the University of East Anglia.

Lorna Sage was named after the title character of R D Blackmore's novel Lorna Doone.

Lorna Sage attended a nearby Flintshire village school and then the Girls' High School in Whitchurch, Shropshire.

Lorna Sage won a scholarship to read English at Durham University, after the university's St Aidan's College changed its admission rules to admit married students.

Lorna Sage later received an MA from the University of Birmingham for her thesis entitled "Poems on Poetry in the 17th Century".

Lorna Sage spent her entire academic career at the University of East Anglia, where she became Professor of English Literature in 1994.

Lorna Sage was twice Dean of the School of English and American Studies.

Lorna Sage edited The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English in 1999, which has become a standard work.

Lorna Sage married Rupert Hodson in 1979 after meeting him in Florence on a sabbatical.

The couple rented a house near Florence from Harry Brewster, where Lorna Sage wrote outside academic terms.

Lorna Sage's childhood is recounted in her memoir Bad Blood, which traces her disappointment in a family where warped behaviour passed down from generation to generation.

Lorna Sage left behind the draft of the first part of a work on Plato and Platonism in literature, which, according to Victor Sage, her former husband in 2001, she had been working on intermittently for many years.