Virago Press

A fuller title is A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent; Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections . . . . The author is described as...

The second collection of the Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell appeared, edited by Richard Greene and published by Virago Press .

GS published with Virago her novel about the South African Truth Commission , Red Dust.

AS 's first book, a collection entitled Free Love and Other Stories, was published by Virago Press . The book won that year's Saltire Literary Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award.

AS 's first novel, a duelling narrative of female relationships and the barriers of language entitled Like, was published by Virago Press .

AS , along with her partner Sarah Wood and academic Kasia Boddy , published through Virago PressBrilliant Careers, an anthology of a hundred years of women's writing.

Once recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome, Smith began writing stories again after a ten-year interval (she had been writing plays in the interim). The stories that would comprise Free Love were first sent to her...

After Free Love had been accepted by Virago , AS began work on her debut novel, an undertaking she describes as a gross departure from the short-story form. The spatial thinking she had found so...

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...

This volume, themed around eruptions of conflict between lovers, features short-story selections from Jhumpa Lahiri , Jackie Kay , D. H. Lawrence , Katherine Mansfield , Dorothy Parker , and Grace Paley (as in the...

Once Hamish Miles had added SS to Cape's list, Rupert Hart-Davis , a director of the firm, met her and became her friend. She told him Cape's advertising was generous and persuasive. But...

Her new publisher gave her a print-run of 15,000 copies, a larger number than for some time. Macmillan , meanwhile, held on to her backlist, keeping everything in print with reprints in short press-runs, but...

Virago Press posthumously published I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist by CS , a novel tracing the decline of an intellectual left-wing couple. It was edited by R. G. Geering , who had collected Stead's short stories.

She had originally intended this book as part of a trilogy, and began one of the other component parts as The Student of Naples, but when she went back to this manuscript on arriving...

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...