Virago Press

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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.
9
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.
52
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...
Publishing Nina Bawden
This too has been re-issued by Virago .
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
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...
Publishing Mary Cholmondeley
Red Pottage sold 8,000 copies by November 1899, resulting a second edition of 10,000, which also sold out. Mudie's Library alone accounted for sales of 2,000 copies. Unfortunately MC did not reap the financial benefits...
Publishing Zoë Fairbairns
This novel originated with an idea born in the abnormally hot and drought-ridden summer of 1976, about the attempts of government to manage forces beyond its control. It grew from a short story written with...
Publishing Nina Bawden
George Hardinge was NB 's first editor. She stayed with him as he moved from Collins , to Longman , and then to Macmillan . After his retirement, she moved to Gollancz (which had already...
Publishing Rosamond Lehmann
RL received a five-hundred-pound advance from Collins for this work.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
369
For a Virago paperback reprint of 1982 she wrote, late in the previous year, an Epilogue.

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