Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago.
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Material Conditions of Writing | Angela Carter | She edited The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990) and The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1992). She did the work for the second Virago
collection while in hospital with cancer, and Marina Warner |
Author summary | Elizabeth von Arnim | Over the course of her career EA
wrote over twenty popular novels, some of which she adapted for the stage, and published her memoirs. Her bestselling first novel, Elizabeth and her German Garden (1898), brought... |
Author summary | Pamela Frankau | PF
had a dazzling success with her first novel in 1927. She went on to publish more than thirty novels, as well as plays for stage and radio, short stories, autobiography, and an important anti-nuclear... |
Publishing | Margaret Kennedy | Initial sales of the novel were slow but by the new year it was being widely read and the author had attained celebrity status. Almost instantly, she began working on a stage adaptation, which was... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Taylor | It has been reprinted by Virago
, 1985, with an introduction by Paul Bailey
. |
Publishing | Sara Maitland | This collection, produced by the feminist collective which its editors had formed, was rejected by both Virago
and the Women's Press
, was published by Journeyman
, and issued in the USA two years later. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago. 129 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Nell Dunn | Among many reprints this appeared from Virago
in 1988 with an introduction by Margaret Drabble
, and in the Bloomsbury Classics series in 1996. It is dedicated to ND
's then baby son Reuben. |
Publishing | Ali Smith | Once recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome, Smith began writing stories again after a ten-year interval (she had been writing plays in the interim). The stories that would comprise Free Love were first sent to her... |
Publishing | Margaret Kennedy | The publication of her seventh novel marked her move from Heinemann
to Cassell
. Virago
reissued this novel as part of its Modern Classics series in 1981 with an introduction by Kennedy's author-daughter, Julia Birley |
Publishing | Emily Eden | |
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... |
Publishing | Pat Barker | |
Publishing | Margaret Kennedy | This novel has seen many subsequent editions, including a 1985 reprint in Virago
's Modern Classics series, for which Anita Brookner
again wrote the introduction. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Elizabeth Taylor | This too was reprinted as a ViragoModern Classic in 1987. |
Publishing | Olivia Manning | It was re-issued in 1984 in an omnibus volume from Virago
together with two other novels about growing up female: Rosamond Lehmann
's The Weather in the Streets and Antonia White
's Frost in May. |
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