Ursula Owen
Standard Name: Owen, Ursula
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Angela Carter | Some of AC
's stories and autobiographical pieces first appeared in anthologies, like The Quilt Maker in Sex and Sensibility: Stories by Contemporary Women from Nine Countries, 1981, and Sugar Daddy in Fathers, Reflections... |
| Literary responses | Michèle Roberts | Her relationship with her father
, however, improved when he read and liked the essay she had written about him for Ursula Owen
's anthologyFathers: Reflections by Daughters, also 1983. Here she related... |
| Literary responses | Christina Stead | Anne Duchêne
, too, expressed admiration for this weirdly laborious, gothic story, calling it a sombre panel, a long and painful expressionist essay, with really only three—or two and a half—characters. She reserved her highest... |
Timeline
21 June 1973
Virago Press
held its first board meeting (of directors Carmen Callil
, Rosie Boycott
, and Marsha Rowe
). The press was established in London with financial support from Quartet Books
.
By Autumn 1975
Carmen Callil
's new Virago Press
issued its first title, Mary Chamberlain
's Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village, an indictment of rural poverty as it bears on women.
By mid-October 1983
Ursula Owen
, editor of Virago Press
, published with them an anthology of essays: Fathers: Reflections by Daughters.