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For Anna Vaux of the Times Literary Supplement, the book's claim to represent a century of women's writing was bold to begin with, compounded by the way the work is tied to a single...

One of the first to review this novel was Rosamond Lehmann ; some of her commendatory phrases are still in use in promotional material from Virago . Today Sarah Waters (who published Tipping the...

Rediscovery of FMM was fostered by Sybil Oldfield , who in 1984 published an extensive account of Mayor's life and works (which she narrated in parallel with those of Mayor's contemporary Mary Sheepshanks ). During...

Initial New York reviewers were unenthusiastic, calling this book thin-blooded or disappointing. On its Virago re-appearance in 1981, the word was radiant. Anne Duchêne placed it at the opposite pole from Stead's recent...

Trooper to the Southern Cross is said to be the only work by AT that her novelist son Colin MacInnes would admit to liking, and to be among the favourite reading of Barry Humphries ...

DW was an unacknowledged favourite of Ivy Compton-Burnett and evidently of Elizabeth Taylor too, since Taylor borrowed for her novel Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont from the opening of a story among Whipple's papers, which...

She embarked on this book at the suggestion (in 1972) of Carmen Callil , who wanted it for Virago Press before the press was up and running. It became one of their opening titles. AC

Sarah wrote the introduction when one of her mother's books was posthumously reprinted by Virago .

According to RS 's daughter Barbara, introducing the Virago edition of The Cause, it was the condescending arrogance of an American cousin which made her, at an early age, a feminist (an incident which...

She was also one of the first authors Virago recruited to its editorial board.

KOB entered University College, Dublin , on a county council scholarship to read French and English (though some relations favoured a safe job instead).

She had some afterlife in memoirs of her contemporaries, such as Jack Lindsay 's Fanfrolico and After, 1962. The Parkin Gallery planned an exhibition of her work in 1981 and advertised for catalogue...

ML 's ghost stories have been frequently anthologised. They appear in, for instance, Fifty Strangest Stories Ever Told (1937), The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century (1987), and Vampire Stories (1993).

NA 's story Car appeared (along with stories by fifteen others including Kate Clanchy and Daphne Du Maurier ) in Something Was There, edited by Kate Pullinger , a ghost-story anthology published by Virago .

In 1914 Virago included this story together with the later Ah Wong and Johnny Delaney in Aunt Sass: Christmas Stories.