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Textual Production | Sarah Waters | published with Virago
her third novel, another lesbian historical, this time with strong elements of pornography and of the thriller or detective-story, entitled Fingersmith. |
Reception | Augusta Webster | The first Dictionary of National Biography praised AW
's abilities as a poet and claimed a lasting place for her in the English poetic tradition, but by 1914 Watts-Dunton was complaining about her exclusion from... |
Textual Production | Mary Wesley | When Virago Press
reprinted The Shutter of Snow by MW
's friend Emily Holmes Coleman
in 1981, Carmen Callil
(though she had just rejected what eventually became Wesley's first adult novel) invited her to share... |
Textual Production | Rebecca West | Sunflower, RW
's unfinished novel about a beautiful actress, begun in the mid-1920s, was published posthumously by Virago Press
. Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Afterword”. Sunflower, Virago, pp. 268-76. 268 |
Textual Features | Rebecca West | Her letters to Virago Press
are said to have been on occasion masterpieces of vitriol. Callil, Carmen. “The stories of our lives”. Guardian Unlimited. |
Textual Production | Rebecca West | RW
's papers are located at the McFarlin Library
in the University of Tulsa
and in the Beinecke Library
at Yale
. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 384 |
Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | DW
was an unacknowledged favourite of Ivy Compton-Burnett
and evidently of Elizabeth Taylor
too, since Taylor borrowed for her novel Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont from the opening of a story among Whipple's papers, which... |
Publishing | Antonia White | The women's publishing house Virago Press
reprinted AW
's Frost in May as the first title in the later famous Virago Modern Classics series. Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape. 417, 420 |
Publishing | Anna Wickham | Virago Press
published The Writings of Anna Wickham
, Free Woman and Poet, edited by R. D. Smith
, a collection of her poetry and prose which includes several previously unpublished works. R. D... |
Textual Production | E. H. Young | EHY
published her novel Celia, which in 1990 was reprinted by Virago Press
. Briganti, Chiara, and Kathy Mezei. Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young. Ashgate. 185 Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol. 27 , No. 3, pp. 303-31. 331 |
Publishing | E. H. Young | This was the first novel she wrote after moving from Bristol to London. It went on to a further change of title in the United States, where it appeared in 1927 as The... |
Publishing | E. H. Young | The following year Cape
produced a collected edition of EHY
's works, going back as far as Yonder. Miss Mole was reprinted by Virago Press
in 1984 (edited by Sally Beauman), and read aloud... |
Textual Production | E. H. Young | The Virago
reprint, 1985, is entitled Jenny. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Publishing | E. H. Young | She began on this story as early as 1941 and went back to it after the Second World War, when she was already suffering from her last illness. She sent it to Jonathan Cape
in... |
Reception | E. H. Young | Though she has had no academic attention until very recently, EHY
appealed to a wide readership. Her works remained steadily in print during her lifetime. Writers of blurbs for her covers included E. M. Delafield |
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