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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...
Reception Augusta Webster
The first Dictionary of National Biography praised AW 's abilities as a poet and claimed a lasting place for her in the English poetic tradition, but by 1914 Watts-Dunton was complaining about her exclusion from...
Textual Production Mary Wesley
When Virago Press reprinted The Shutter of Snow by MW 's friend Emily Holmes Coleman in 1981, Carmen Callil (though she had just rejected what eventually became Wesley's first adult novel) invited her to share...
Textual Production Rebecca West
Sunflower, RW 's unfinished novel about a beautiful actress, begun in the mid-1920s, was published posthumously by Virago Press .
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Afterword”. Sunflower, Virago, pp. 268-76.
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Textual Features Rebecca West
Her letters to Virago Press are said to have been on occasion masterpieces of vitriol.
Callil, Carmen. “The stories of our lives”. Guardian Unlimited.
Textual Production Rebecca West
RW 's papers are located at the McFarlin Library in the University of Tulsa and in the Beinecke Library at Yale .
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
384
In 1945 Marie Belloc Lowndes indignantly contradicted Hugh Walpole 's portrayal of...
Literary responses Dorothy Whipple
DW was an unacknowledged favourite of Ivy Compton-Burnett and evidently of Elizabeth Taylor too, since Taylor borrowed for her novel Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont from the opening of a story among Whipple's papers, which...
Publishing Antonia White
The women's publishing house Virago Press reprinted AW 's Frost in May as the first title in the later famous Virago Modern Classics series.
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape.
417, 420
Publishing Anna Wickham
Virago Press published The Writings of Anna Wickham , Free Woman and Poet, edited by R. D. Smith , a collection of her poetry and prose which includes several previously unpublished works.
R. D...
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.
185
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
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Publishing E. H. Young
This was the first novel she wrote after moving from Bristol to London. It went on to a further change of title in the United States, where it appeared in 1927 as The...
Publishing E. H. Young
The following year Cape produced a collected edition of EHY 's works, going back as far as Yonder. Miss Mole was reprinted by Virago Press in 1984 (edited by Sally Beauman), and read aloud...
Textual Production E. H. Young
The Virago reprint, 1985, is entitled Jenny.
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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...
Reception E. H. Young
Though she has had no academic attention until very recently, EHY appealed to a wide readership. Her works remained steadily in print during her lifetime. Writers of blurbs for her covers included E. M. Delafield

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