Virago Press

Grace Nichols published her first novel, Whole of a Morning Sky.

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

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. But both mood and landscape are deeply coloured...

The Men's Room, AO 's first novel to see print, appeared from Virago Press.

AO published her second novel, Matilda's Mistake, again with Virago .

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...

TO 's reputation probably reached its zenith soon after Silences appeared. During the second half of 1979 her three books together earned about $7,000. Virago published British editions of them in September 1980.

This work, written for readers in the USA, appeared as a series of articles in Good Housekeeping before it came out as a book. It was primarily ghost-written by an American writer, Rheta Childe Dorr

On first publication the book did very badly in the USA: during May and June 1931 only seventeen copies sold there, although reviews and a broadcast by Bernard Shaw had reached many thousands of people...

MPD first intended to call this book The Vanished House, as if one casualty of the war was the once ordered and modestly luxurious middle-class family house which, however, had needed a staff of...

A selection of DR 's short stories and autobiographical sketches were collected in book form for the first time in Journey to Paradise, published by Virago Modern Classics and edited by critic Trudi Tate .

Recognition of the significance and complexity of DR 's oeuvre has risen markedly since the late 1970s. This predominantly feminist shift has been inspired and facilitated by Gloria Fromm 's major biography, released in 1977...

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 .

She began this book out of an impulse to think about where I came from, both genetically and socio-historically. Keeping to her unalterable schedule of several hours reading a day, she did painstaking research...

Pin Mill (on the river Orwell, almost an appendage of the larger village of Chelmondiston) is proud of its association with this novel, though EAR takes second place in its publicity to We...