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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.
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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
EE 's fiction, particularly The Semi-Attached Couple, was reprinted sporadically during the twentieth century: there was a Virago edition in 1979.
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
PB says that one stage she threw away the manuscript of this novel in despair, but her husband rescued it from the bin.
Jaggi, Maya. “Pat Barker. Dispatches from the front”. The Guardian, pp. G2: 16 - 19.
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She said she felt the absence of models for writing fiction...
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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