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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
Author summary Pamela Frankau
PF had a dazzling success with her first novel in 1927. She went on to publish more than thirty novels, as well as plays for stage and radio, short stories, autobiography, and an important anti-nuclear...
Author summary Elizabeth von Arnim
Over the course of her career EA wrote over twenty popular novels, some of which she adapted for the stage, and published her memoirs. Her bestselling first novel, Elizabeth and her German Garden (1898), brought...
Publishing Anna Wickham
Virago Press published The Writings of Anna Wickham , Free Woman and Poet, edited by R. D. Smith , a collection of her poetry and prose which includes several previously unpublished works.
R. D...
Publishing Margaret Atwood
The British edition, issued by Virago , carried a slightly different title: In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination. Copies of the special limited edition cost a hundred dollars each. The printing...
Publishing Ann Bridge
This book was reprinted as no. 6 in Chatto's Landmark Library series in 1968 and again by Virago in 1985. The travel element remained constant (blended with romance or spying) as AB followed her husband's...
Publishing Shena Mackay
Re-issued in paperback by Virago by March 1990, this work has gone through several impressions.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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.
Publishing Enid Bagnold
She was fired for openly criticizing the nurses' lack of compassion.
Friedman, Lenemaja. Enid Bagnold. Twayne.
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The 15,000 copies printed by Heinemann , her publisher, sold well.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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The book was reissued by Virago Press in Septmber 1978.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1979
Publishing Jan Struther
This book was reprinted by Virago in 1990 with an introduction by Valerie Grove .
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Publishing Shena Mackay
This too became a Virago paperback, in 1989.
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.
Publishing Violet Trefusis
She dedicated this book to another writer, Princess Marthe Bibesco , in long-promised token of [her] friendship and admiration.
Sage, Lorna, and Violet Trefusis. “Introduction”. Hunt the Slipper, Virago, p. v - xiv.
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A Virago edition appeared in December 1983.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
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...
Publishing E. H. Young
This was the first novel she wrote after moving from Bristol to London. It went on to a further change of title in the United States, where it appeared in 1927 as The...
Publishing Molly Keane
Her last two M. J. Farrell novels were Loving Without Tears (1951) and Treasure Hunt (1952). The 1988 and 1990 Virago reprints of Loving Without Tears and Treasure Hunt had introductions by Russell Harty and...
Publishing Maud Sulter
MS had approached Virago Press , a feminist publisher, but was told that they could not give her a decision about including her in their poetry series. They were awaiting the results of negotiations with...

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