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Reception Elizabeth von Arnim
Semi-fictional diaries by Elizabeth became the hallmark of the books with which she followed this one in series, including The Solitary Summer (1899), April Baby's Book of Tunes (1900), and Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen...
Reception Elizabeth Taylor
Although she received some glowing reviews throughout her career from some of the most distinguished of her novelistic peers, ET has also been damned with faint praise. She has been called both the modern man's...
Textual Features A. S. Byatt
The writers considered (each for a single novel) are Jane Austen , Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot , Willa Cather (for nine of whose works ASB also wrote Virago introductions),
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Iris Murdoch , and Toni Morrison .
Textual Features Kate O'Brien
Edna O'Brien is quoted on the cover of the Virago edition referring to the perfect capture of the mood and landscape of a corner of Ireland.
O’Brien, Kate. The Last of Summer. Virago.
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But both mood and landscape are deeply coloured...
Textual Features Ali Smith
This volume, themed around eruptions of conflict between lovers, features short-story selections from Jhumpa Lahiri , Jackie Kay , D. H. Lawrence , Katherine Mansfield , Dorothy Parker , and Grace Paley (as in the...
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 Pamela Frankau
PF returned to her more familiar style (after a failed experiment) with her novel The Winged Horse, which was reprinted in 1989 as Virago Modern Classic 311.
Raymond, Diana, and Pamela Frankau. “Introduction”. The Winged Horse, Virago, p. v - xiii.
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Textual Production Edith Sitwell
The second collection of the Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell appeared, edited by Richard Greene and published by Virago Press .
Sitwell, Edith. Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell. Editor Greene, Richard, Virago Books.
Textual Production Judith Kazantzis
JK supplied a critical preface for Catherine W. Reilly 's ground-breaking anthology Scars upon my Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War, published by Virago .
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Textual Production Grace Nichols
Grace Nichols published her first novel, Whole of a Morning Sky.
The Virago re-issue appeared on this date.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Ali Smith
AS 's first book, a collection entitled Free Love and Other Stories, was published by Virago Press . The book won that year's Saltire Literary Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
Germanà, Monica, and Emily Horton, editors. Ali Smith. Bloomsbury.
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“Ali Smith Wins the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction”. Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Textual Production Molly Keane
Almost all her early novels have been re-issued as Virago Modern Classics.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Brigid Brophy
A reprint in the Virago Modern Classics series, 1990, carries BB 's new afterword. The title-page quotes Rosalind in Shakespeare 's As You Like It: men have died from time to time and worms...
Textual Production Anita Desai
At Cambridge in 1991, AD composed an introduction for an edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 's Turkish Embassy Letters, which appeared from Pickering and Chatto in 1993 and from Virago Press in 1994.
Textual Production Ann Oakley
The Men's Room, AO 's first novel to see print, appeared from Virago Press.
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Oakley, Ann. The Men’s Room. Virago.
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