Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 21, pp. 7-14. 8
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Employer | Angela Carter | She was also one of the first authors Virago
recruited to its editorial board. Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol. 38 , No. 21, pp. 7-14. 8 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Angela Carter | She edited The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990) and The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1992). She did the work for the second Virago
collection while in hospital with cancer, and Marina Warner |
Publishing | Angela Carter | The novel was written between March and December of 1967. Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press. 49 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | 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 |
Publishing | Mary Cholmondeley | Red Pottage sold 8,000 copies by November 1899, resulting a second edition of 10,000, which also sold out. Mudie's Library
alone accounted for sales of 2,000 copies. Unfortunately MC
did not reap the financial benefits... |
Publishing | Lettice Cooper | This was reprinted by Penguin
in 1946, by Virago
in 1987, and by Persephone Books
in 2004. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Lettice Cooper | |
Publishing | Clemence Dane | It is dedicated to a woman she calls E. A. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Jennifer Dawson | |
Textual Production | Jennifer Dawson | |
Textual Production | Jennifer Dawson | |
Reception | E. M. Delafield | All four Provincial Lady books were very popular with readers. Sales of these volumes in their various editions exceeded 250,000. In 1984, Virago Press
sparked a resurgence of interest in EMD
by publishing all four... |
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. |
Reception | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
found a champion in her fellow novelist Margaret Forster
, who published a biography in 15 March 1993 and later wrote the entry on her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Forster... |
Publishing | Maureen Duffy | The first suggestion that she should write a novel came from Graham Nicol
, editor of Hutchinson
's New Authors series. This remarkable series published first books only, provided the same contract to all its... |
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