Virago Press

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Travel Tillie Olsen
Apart from indefatigable travel around the USA (including Hawaii), TO visited London, Paris, and the USSR with her husband in 1980. In London she met the staff at Virago , her publisher...
Textual Production Grace Nichols
Grace Nichols published her first novel, Whole of a Morning Sky.
The Virago re-issue appeared on this date.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Pamela Frankau
PF returned to her more familiar style (after a failed experiment) with her novel The Winged Horse, which was reprinted in 1989 as Virago Modern Classic 311.
Raymond, Diana, and Pamela Frankau. “Introduction”. The Winged Horse, Virago, p. v - xiii.
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Textual Production Edith Sitwell
The second collection of the Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell appeared, edited by Richard Greene and published by Virago Press .
Sitwell, Edith. Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell. Editor Greene, Richard, Virago Books.
Textual Production Judith Kazantzis
JK supplied a critical preface for Catherine W. Reilly 's ground-breaking anthology Scars upon my Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War, published by Virago .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Brigid Brophy
A reprint in the Virago Modern Classics series, 1990, carries BB 's new afterword. The title-page quotes Rosalind in Shakespeare 's As You Like It: men have died from time to time and worms...
Textual Production Anita Desai
At Cambridge in 1991, AD composed an introduction for an edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 's Turkish Embassy Letters, which appeared from Pickering and Chatto in 1993 and from Virago Press in 1994.
Textual Production Ann Oakley
The Men's Room, AO 's first novel to see print, appeared from Virago Press.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Oakley, Ann. The Men’s Room. Virago.
title-page
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.
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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
Textual Production Ali Smith
AS 's first book, a collection entitled Free Love and Other Stories, was published by Virago Press . The book won that year's Saltire Literary Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
Germanà, Monica, and Emily Horton, editors. Ali Smith. Bloomsbury.
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“Ali Smith Wins the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction”. Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Textual Production Molly Keane
Almost all her early novels have been re-issued as Virago Modern Classics.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Ann Oakley
AO published her second novel, Matilda's Mistake, again with Virago .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Monica Furlong
MF issued through Virago Press as one of their Pioneers series another religious biography, that of the youthful nineteenth-century saint Thérèse of Lisieux.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Textual Production Ali Smith
AS 's first novel, a duelling narrative of female relationships and the barriers of language entitled Like, was published by Virago Press .
“Listing”. The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4917, p. 32.
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Textual Production Pat Barker
Virago Press issued PB 's first published work, Union Street, a volume of interwoven short stories which could also be described as a novel.
Barker, Pat. Union Street. Virago.
prelims

Timeline

21 June 1973: Virago Press held its first board meeting...

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21 June 1973

Virago Press held its first board meeting (of directors Carmen Callil , Rosie Boycott , and Marsha Rowe ). The press was established in London with financial support from Quartet Books .

By Autumn 1975: Carmen Callil's new Virago Press issued its...

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By Autumn 1975

Carmen Callil 's new Virago Press issued its first title, Mary Chamberlain 's Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village, an indictment of rural poverty as it bears on women.

May 1978: Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern...

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May 1978

Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.

May 1978: Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern...

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May 1978

Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.

25 November 1982: Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology...

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25 November 1982

Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women Writers.

By mid-October 1983: Ursula Owen, editor of Virago Press, published...

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By mid-October 1983

Ursula Owen , editor of Virago Press , published with them an anthology of essays: Fathers: Reflections by Daughters.

January 1984: Virago Press released Aileen La Tourette's...

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January 1984

Virago Press released Aileen La Tourette 's fictional exploration of bisexuality, Nuns and Mothers.

December 1984: The feminist publisher Virago Press, under...

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December 1984

The feminist publisher Virago Press , under its editor Carmen Callil , launched its own bookshop in Covent Garden, London; the opening was performed by Rosamond Lehmann .

1986: Aileen La Tourette published through Virago...

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1986

Aileen La Tourette published through Virago Press the post-apocalypticnovelCry Wolf (whose title has also been used by others).

January 1996: Virago Press resumed operations as an imprint...

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January 1996

Virago Press resumed operations as an imprint of another larger company, Little Brown . Its board took the decision to sell in 1995, two years after its twentieth birthday.

11 September 2000: Mende Nazer (having survived being kidnapped...

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11 September 2000

Mende Nazer (having survived being kidnapped in a raid on her Sudanese village birthplace when she was about twelve, and about eight years labour as a domestic slave) celebrated this day of her escape as...

8 May 2008: Virago Press marked thirty years of Virago...

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8 May 2008

Virago Press marked thirty years of Virago Modern Classics by re-issuing works by Barbara Pym , E. M. Delafield , Elizabeth Taylor , Jacqueline Susann , Muriel Spark , Helene Hanff , Zora Neale Hurston , and Angela Carter .

Texts

Beauman, Nicola, and E. M. Delafield. “Introduction”. The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Rprt ed. , Virago Press, 1984, p. vii - xvii.
Breeze, Jean Binta. Spring Cleaning. Virago Press, 1992.
Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press, 1988.
Hepburn, James, and Anna Wickham. “Preface”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith and Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, p. xix - xxiii.
Holtby, Winifred. Mandoa! Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance. Virago Press, 1982.
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983.
Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
Mulford, Wendy, editor. The Virago Book of Love Poetry. Virago Press, 1998.
Roberts, Michèle. All the Selves I Was. Virago Press, 1995.
Roberts, Michèle. Daughters of the House. Virago Press, 1992.
Roberts, Michèle. During Mother’s Absence. Virago Press, 1993.
Roberts, Michèle. Playing Sardines. Virago Press, 2001.
Slovo, Gillian. An Honourable Man. Virago Press, 2012.
Smith, Ali et al., editors. Brilliant Careers. Virago Press, 2000.
Smith, Ali. Like. Virago Press, 1997.
Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 1-48.
Hepburn, James et al. “Editor’s Note and Acknowledgements”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, p. xxv - xxvi.
Thompson, Dorothy. Queen Victoria: Gender and Power. Virago Press, 1990.
Wickham, Anna et al. “Fragment of an Autobiography: Prelude to a Spring Clean”. The Writings of Anna Wickham Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 51-157.
Wickham, Anna, and James Hepburn. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet. Editor Smith, Reginald Donald, Virago Press, 1984.
Wilson, Elizabeth. Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity. Virago Press, 1985.