Hermione Lee is President of Wolfson College, Oxford. Her books include biographies of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton. She is currently working on a life of Penelope Fitzgerald.
(January 2013)
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Finding a Very Secret Self
January 10, 2013
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families
by Colm Tóibín
The Testament of Mary
by Colm Tóibín
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The Terrors of the Woman President
April 5, 2012
Mudwoman
by Joyce Carol Oates
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Storms Over the Novel
May 10, 2007
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
by Jane Smiley
The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
by Edward Mendelson
How Novels Work
by John Mullan
How to Read a Novel: A User’s Guide
by John Sutherland
The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography and Culture
edited by Franco Moretti
The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes
edited by Franco Moretti
Nation & Novel: The English Novel from Its Origins to the Present Day
by Patrick Parrinder
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Passionate Pilgrim
November 4, 2004
The Cruise of the Vanadis
by Edith Wharton, with photographs by Jonas Dovydenas
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Comic, Sad and Indefinite
August 12, 2004
Alone! Alone! Lives of Some Outsider Women
by Rosemary Dinnage
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The Unknown Edith Wharton
October 4, 2001
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1891–1910
selected and with notes by Maureen Howard
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1911–1937
selected and with notes by Maureen Howard
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On Eudora Welty (1909–2001)
September 20, 2001
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Tracking the Untrackable
April 12, 2001
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes
Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding David Ellis
Reflections on Biography Paula R. Backscheider
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Unfinished Women
December 16, 1999
Ellen Glasgow: A Biography
by Susan Goodman