Virago Press

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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 Leonora Carrington
Virago Press and American publisher E. P. Dutton released The House of Fear, a collection of prose by LC that takes the name of her first published fiction.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Carrington, Leonora. The House of Fear. E.P. Dutton.
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Publishing Patricia Highsmith
The latest re-issue is from Virago Press in 2015.
Publishing Stevie Smith
Once Hamish Miles had added SS to Cape's list, Rupert Hart-Davis , a director of the firm, met her and became her friend.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage.
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She told him Cape's advertising was generous and persuasive.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage.
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But...
Publishing Nina Bawden
It has been re-issued by Virago in the Virago Modern Classics series.
Publishing Rosamond Lehmann
At the request of Carmen Callil of Virago Press and Chatto and Windus , RL put together a collection of captioned photographs that was published as Rosamond Lehmann's Album.
Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus.
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Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
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.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen.
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Publishing Harriet Martineau
Chapman used her own memorials (based, she claimed, on full access to HM 's private and public papers, personal letters, and her own and others' first-hand knowledge) to flesh out the account in the manuscript...
Publishing Sarah Waters
This novel was rejected inside a year by about ten British publishers, including Virago . They eventually accepted it, but not until SW had engaged the services of an agent (who also found the book...
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...
Publishing Leonora Carrington
Virago Press issued LC 's The Seventh Horse and Other Tales, a volume of nineteen pieces and one novella (The Stone Door), some published here for the first time: a re-issue of...
Publishing E. M. Hull
The Sheik was first published at a price of three shillings and sixpence, but its spectacular sales enabled this to be dropped to two and sixpence, then to a cheap edition that sold for a...
Publishing Muriel Spark
Her new publisher gave her a print-run of 15,000 copies, a larger number than for some time. Macmillan , meanwhile, held on to her backlist, keeping everything in print with reprints in short press-runs, but...

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