Sarah Hall is the author to date of six novels and three collections of short stories. In the summer of 2020, she presented a BBC radio 4 documentary called “The Everywoman” in which she described her childhood “literary encounters” with the characters of Ann Burden in Z for Zachariah and the bride’s mother in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” as “boundary-breaking” (Hall, 2020, 16:46). Boundary-breaking may serve as an apt description of her work. It sums up the consistent features that run through her fiction.

It first calls for a geographic understanding of the word in connection with the Borderlands of her native region of Cumbria. Thus her novel from …

3019 words

Citation: Walezak, Emilie. "Sarah Hall". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 November 2020; last revised 19 April 2022. [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5852, accessed 07 October 2024.]

5852 Sarah Hall 1 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

Save this article

If you need to create a new bookshelf to save this article in, please make sure that you are logged in, then go to your 'Account' here

Leave Feedback

The Literary Encyclopedia is a living community of scholars. We welcome comments which will help us improve.