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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 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 Nina Hamnett
Its publication was marked by an exhibition of NH 's drawings and paintings at the Zwemmer Gallery in Litchfield Street, London. The opening, on 8 June, was attended by many of NH 's friends...
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.
Publishing George Egerton
After receiving Gill's advice, GE sent the manuscript to William Heinemann , who promptly returned it, saying he was not interested in publishing mediocre short stories.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.
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She then sent it to John Lane at...
Publishing Pat Barker
In an author's note, PB explains that fact and fiction are interwoven in this book, and lists her most important sources.
Barker, Pat. Regeneration. Viking-Penguin.
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With it she left Virago for Viking-Penguin . At this time, she says,...
Publishing Angela Carter
The novel was written between March and December of 1967.
Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press.
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It was reprinted by Virago Press in 2005.
Publishing Olivia Manning
The Play Room resulted from OM 's desire, after The Balkan Trilogy, to do something completely different. She did research for it—into the habits of teenagers, such as frequenting discos.
English, Isobel, and Olivia Manning. “Introduction”. The Play Room, Virago, p. vii - xv.
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She dedicated the...
Publishing George Egerton
This collection initially went through four editions in a year. It has been reprinted together with its predecessor, as Keynotes & Discords, by Virago (1983, with an introduction by Martha Vicinus ) and by...
Publishing Emmeline Pankhurst
This work, written for readers in the USA, appeared as a series of articles in Good Housekeeping before it came out as a book. It was primarily ghost-written by an American writer, Rheta Childe Dorr

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