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title: "2 Lorna Sage Quotes - Famous Biographer"
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# Lorna Sage

(1943–2001)   Biographer

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Lorna Sage was a biographer.

## Quick Facts About Lorna Sage

Born January 13, 1943

Died January 11, 2001

Profession Biographer

## About Lorna Sage

British writer... \| 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 (2000). She taught English literature at the University of East Anglia.

##  Quotes by Lorna Sage

> [“The boundaries between us had been breached for good, we gave a new meaning t the notion that man and wife were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-sage/the-boundaries-between-us-had-been-breached-for-good-we-gave-a-new/)

Lorna Sage

[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67a/lorna-sage-96401_books_the-boundaries-between-us-had-been-breac_375277.jpg)

> [“More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-sage/more-and-more-i-lived-in-books-they-were-my-comfort-refuge-addiction/)

Lorna Sage

[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3b/lorna-sage-96401_books_more-and-more-i-lived-in-books-they-were_1470608.jpg)

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