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...
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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/.
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Sybille Bedford
This was reprinted by Virago
in the same year as its predecessor.
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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.
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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.
162
She sent two chapters, as work in progress, to E. M. Forster...
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...
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Jennifer Dawson
JD
issued through Virago
her final published novel, Judasland.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
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Grace Nichols
Grace Nichols
published another collection, The Fat Black Woman's Poems, which demonstrates her sense of fun.
Sander, Reinhard, and Bernth Lindfors, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 157. Gale Research.
237
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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.
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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
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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
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Grace Nichols
Virago Press
published GN
's poetry volume Startling the Flying Fish, which has sometimes been clasified as verse for children.
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.
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...
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...
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.