Callil, Carmen. “The stories of our lives”. Guardian Unlimited.
Carmen Callil
Standard Name: Callil, Carmen
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Publishing | 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... |
Reception | Elizabeth Jenkins | Rosamond Lehmann
recommended EJ
's writing to Carmen Callil
for inclusion in the Virago Modern Classics series. |
Reception | Rosamond Lehmann | Carmen Callil
, editor of Virago Press
, approached Adrian House
, RL
's editor at Collins
, about re-issuing her work: he repelled this suggestion, condemning Virago as fairly pronounced feminists. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 393 |
Reception | Edith Wharton | EW
's literary career was achieved in face of the indifference or disapproval of her relations, who felt that to publish was to lose caste. In 1923 EW
was awarded an Honorary DLitt by Yale University |
Textual Production | Antonia White | The idea was that AW
should write the introduction herself. The effort to write it plunged her, said Carmen Callil
, in pain so great . . . it twisted her body. Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, pp. 32-4. 32 |
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