Virago Press

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Travel Tillie Olsen
Apart from indefatigable travel around the USA (including Hawaii), TO visited London, Paris, and the USSR with her husband in 1980. In London she met the staff at Virago , her publisher...
Textual Production Joan Riley
Together with the New Zealander Briar Wood , JR edited a collection with the punning title Leave to Stay: Stories of Exile and Belonging, published by Virago Press .
Virago Press: 30 Years of Virago. http://www.virago.co.uk/.
News: On This Day
Textual Production Sybille Bedford
This was reprinted by Virago in the same year as its predecessor.
Textual Production Jennifer Dawson
After the second of two silences interrupting her career, JD published with Virago a novel entitled The Upstairs People.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
NM originally headed the first part of this in manuscript Reel One. She said later it would make a smashing movie.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
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She sent two chapters, as work in progress, to E. M. Forster...
Textual Production Rebecca West
RW 's papers are located at the McFarlin Library in the University of Tulsa and in the Beinecke Library at Yale .
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
384
In 1945 Marie Belloc Lowndes indignantly contradicted Hugh Walpole 's portrayal of...
Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF has carried out a great deal of scholarly commentary of a kind best calculated to be useful to readers (though she did not finish her MA thesis on nineteenth-century sexual fantasists like Ouida and...
Textual Production Jennifer Dawson
JD issued through Virago her final published novel, Judasland.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
Textual Production Grace Nichols
Grace Nichols published another collection, The Fat Black Woman's Poems, which demonstrates her sense of fun.
This was the date of the Virago reprint.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Sander, Reinhard, and Bernth Lindfors, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 157. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Alison Fell
AF titled her next novel The Bad Box. Like The Grey Dancer, it is set in Scotland in the 1950s, and it is sometimes listed as a children's book—but not by Virago , its publisher.
“Alison Fell”. Fantastic Fiction.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
This appeared in the UK as Poems 1976-1986, just as her earlier Selected Poems 1965-1975, 1976, had appeared in the UK with a shorter title. The British publisher in each case was Virago Press
Textual Production Jennifer Dawson
JD completed her ninth and final novel, Lady St Just, some time in 2000, only shortly before she died.
Whitby, Joy. “In Memory of Jennifer Hinton (Dawson 1949)”. The Ship, Vol.
91
, pp. 54-5.
55
It does not seem that this work has ever appeared. A book by JD
Textual Production Grace Nichols
Virago Press published GN 's poetry volume Startling the Flying Fish, which has sometimes been clasified as verse for children.
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Textual Production Alison Fell
It was reprinted by Virago in 2000.
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Textual Production Margaret Atwood
Another collection, Curious Pursuits, Occasional Writing 1970-2005, published by Virago on 5 May 2005, reprints articles and reviews. Political events, gender, and the women's movement are frequent topics.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
MA claims wryly that this book...

Timeline

21 June 1973: Virago Press held its first board meeting...

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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...

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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.

May 1978: Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern...

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May 1978

Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.

May 1978: Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern...

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May 1978

Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.

25 November 1982: Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology...

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25 November 1982

Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women Writers.

By mid-October 1983: Ursula Owen, editor of Virago Press, published...

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By mid-October 1983

Ursula Owen , editor of Virago Press , published with them an anthology of essays: Fathers: Reflections by Daughters.

January 1984: Virago Press released Aileen La Tourette's...

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January 1984

Virago Press released Aileen La Tourette 's fictional exploration of bisexuality, Nuns and Mothers.

December 1984: The feminist publisher Virago Press, under...

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December 1984

The feminist publisher Virago Press , under its editor Carmen Callil , launched its own bookshop in Covent Garden, London; the opening was performed by Rosamond Lehmann .

1986: Aileen La Tourette published through Virago...

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1986

Aileen La Tourette published through Virago Press the post-apocalypticnovelCry Wolf (whose title has also been used by others).

January 1996: Virago Press resumed operations as an imprint...

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January 1996

Virago Press resumed operations as an imprint of another larger company, Little Brown . Its board took the decision to sell in 1995, two years after its twentieth birthday.

11 September 2000: Mende Nazer (having survived being kidnapped...

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11 September 2000

Mende Nazer (having survived being kidnapped in a raid on her Sudanese village birthplace when she was about twelve, and about eight years labour as a domestic slave) celebrated this day of her escape as...

8 May 2008: Virago Press marked thirty years of Virago...

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8 May 2008

Virago Press marked thirty years of Virago Modern Classics by re-issuing works by Barbara Pym , E. M. Delafield , Elizabeth Taylor , Jacqueline Susann , Muriel Spark , Helene Hanff , Zora Neale Hurston , and Angela Carter .

Texts

Beauman, Nicola, and E. M. Delafield. “Introduction”. The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Rprt ed. , Virago Press, 1984, p. vii - xvii.
Breeze, Jean Binta. Spring Cleaning. Virago Press, 1992.
Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press, 1988.
Hepburn, James, and Anna Wickham. “Preface”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith and Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, p. xix - xxiii.
Holtby, Winifred. Mandoa! Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance. Virago Press, 1982.
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983.
Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
Mulford, Wendy, editor. The Virago Book of Love Poetry. Virago Press, 1998.
Roberts, Michèle. All the Selves I Was. Virago Press, 1995.
Roberts, Michèle. Daughters of the House. Virago Press, 1992.
Roberts, Michèle. During Mother’s Absence. Virago Press, 1993.
Roberts, Michèle. Playing Sardines. Virago Press, 2001.
Slovo, Gillian. An Honourable Man. Virago Press, 2012.
Smith, Ali et al., editors. Brilliant Careers. Virago Press, 2000.
Smith, Ali. Like. Virago Press, 1997.
Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 1-48.
Hepburn, James et al. “Editor’s Note and Acknowledgements”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, p. xxv - xxvi.
Thompson, Dorothy. Queen Victoria: Gender and Power. Virago Press, 1990.
Wickham, Anna et al. “Fragment of an Autobiography: Prelude to a Spring Clean”. The Writings of Anna Wickham Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 51-157.
Wickham, Anna, and James Hepburn. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet. Editor Smith, Reginald Donald, Virago Press, 1984.
Wilson, Elizabeth. Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity. Virago Press, 1985.