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In 1976 Jean B. Read edited and published A Christina Stead Reader, including The Sensitive Goldfish from The Salzburg Tales, excerpts from all of her novels up to this point (except The Man...

The latter title dates from the first US edition, 1925. The Virago edition of 1987 has an introduction by Julia Neuberger . This work (dedicated to John Galsworthy ) was followed by A Deputy was...

In this book she says: The journalist develops antennae which cast about ceaselessly for stimuli. Her own antennae responded, especially in my Guardian days, [to] currents of social change, ground swells that grew into breakers...

According to RS 's daughter Barbara, introducing the Virago edition of The Cause, it was the condescending arrogance of an American cousin which made her, at an early age, a feminist (an incident which...

This book was reprinted by Virago in 1990 with an introduction by Valerie Grove .

MS had approached Virago Press , a feminist publisher, but was told that they could not give her a decision about including her in their poetry series. They were awaiting the results of negotiations with...

This novel has appeared in both Penguin and Virago editions. The paper cover of an Italian translation was so hideous that ET tore it up.

Blanche Knopf asked for fairly radical revisions in this novel: that it should concentrate more completely on the two very young lovers. ET replied, in terms of the utmost humility, that she could not revise...

The Virago edition (Virago Modern Classics no. 135), 1984, has an introduction by Paul Bailey . The novel was adapted for a film in 2007, which produced the same absurdly divided reviews that had...

A Virago edition appeared in 1986.

Although she received some glowing reviews throughout her career from some of the most distinguished of her novelistic peers, ET has also been damned with faint praise. She has been called both the modern man's...

In 1859 Mill reprinted this essay shortly after HT 's death in the second volume of his Dissertations and Discussions. He attributed the essay to its right author and claimed that she...

ET 's novel The Sleeping Beauty was published; the Virago edition has an introduction by Susannah Clapp .

It has been reprinted by Virago , 1985, with an introduction by Paul Bailey .

US sales for stories soon followed. Harper's Bazaar published one extracted from A View from the Harbour in July 1947, and a year later, in September 1948, I Live in a World of Make-Beiieve (which...