Virago Press

SW published with Virago her first historical novel, Tipping the Velvet, which incorporates a lesbian love story set amid the music-halls, the sex-trade underworld, and the seedbeds of political activism in 1890s London.

published with Virago her third novel, another lesbian historical, this time with strong elements of pornography and of the thriller or detective-story, entitled Fingersmith.

MW published a collection of short fiction with Virago Press : Guests in the Body, exploring the themes of motherhood, creativity, possession, dybbuks, and music.

In 1976 MW was one of an Open University team or collective which produced a text for a course in Art and Environment, entitled The Great Divide: The Sexual Division of Labour; or, Is it...

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...

Semi-fictional diaries by Elizabeth became the hallmark of the books with which she followed this one in series, including The Solitary Summer (1899), April Baby's Book of Tunes (1900), and Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen...

A month-long holiday that EA took near Rapallo with her friends Maud Ritchie and Mary Mallet provided the inspiration for this book. It has seen many theatrical and movie versions. Campbell Kane rewrote it as...

She dedicated this book to another writer, Princess Marthe Bibesco , in long-promised token of [her] friendship and admiration. A Virago edition appeared in December 1983.

It was reprinted in English as one of Virago 's Modern Classics series in 1983, with an introduction by Lorna Sage , who found in VT an unexpected self-awareness and called this work a...

The novel was reissued in 1996 by Virago 's Modern Classics, with an introduction by Lisa St Auban de Teran , who devotes much of her introduction to VT 's life experiences and suggests that...

In 1914 Virago included this story together with the later Ah Wong and Johnny Delaney in Aunt Sass: Christmas Stories.

Like most of KCT 's novels, The Fly on the Wheel was also first serialized. It appeared from October 1907 to April 1908 in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and from February to September 1908 in...

Trooper to the Southern Cross is said to be the only work by AT that her novelist son Colin MacInnes would admit to liking, and to be among the favourite reading of Barry Humphries ...

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...