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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Grace Nichols | Virago Press
published GN
's poetry volume Startling the Flying Fish, which has sometimes been clasified as verse for children. |
Education | Kate O'Brien | KOB
entered University College, Dublin
, on a county council scholarship to read French and English (though some relations favoured a safe job instead). Most reference works, oddly, have 1915. The prelims of the Virago |
Textual Features | Kate O'Brien | Edna O'Brien
is quoted on the cover of the Virago
edition referring to the perfect capture of the mood and landscape of a corner of Ireland. O’Brien, Kate. The Last of Summer. Virago. cover |
Textual Production | Ann Oakley | |
Textual Production | Ann Oakley | |
Travel | Tillie Olsen | |
Reception | Tillie Olsen | TO
's reputation probably reached its zenith soon after Silences appeared. During the second half of 1979 her three books together earned about $7,000. Virago
published British editions of them in September 1980. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press. 286, 287 |
Publishing | Emmeline Pankhurst | This work, written for readers in the USA, appeared as a series of articles in Good Housekeeping before it came out as a book. It was primarily ghost-written by an American writer, Rheta Childe Dorr |
Reception | Sylvia Pankhurst | On first publication the book did very badly in the USA: during May and June 1931 only seventeen copies sold there, although reviews and a broadcast by Bernard Shaw
had reached many thousands of people... |
Publishing | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
first intended to call this book The Vanished House, as if one casualty of the war was the once ordered and modestly luxurious middle-class family house which, however, had needed a staff of... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | A selection of DR
's short stories and autobiographical sketches were collected in book form for the first time in Journey to Paradise, published by Virago Modern Classics
and edited by critic Trudi Tate
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Tate, Trudi, and Dorothy Richardson. “Introduction”. Journey to Paradise, Virago, p. ix - xxxvi. x |
Reception | Dorothy Richardson | Recognition of the significance and complexity of DR
's oeuvre has risen markedly since the late 1970s. This predominantly feminist shift has been inspired and facilitated by Gloria Fromm
's major biography, released in 1977... |
Textual Production | Joan Riley | Together with the New Zealander Briar Wood
, JR
edited a collection with the punning title Leave to Stay: Stories of Exile and Belonging, published by Virago Press
. Virago Press: 30 Years of Virago. http://www.virago.co.uk/. News: On This Day |
Publishing | Michèle Roberts | She began this book out of an impulse to think about where I came from, both genetically and socio-historically. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago. 313 |
Publishing | E. Arnot Robertson | Pin Mill (on the river Orwell, almost an appendage of the larger village of Chelmondiston) is proud of its association with this novel, though EAR
takes second place in its publicity to We... |
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