Virago Press

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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 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...
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...
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
Blanche Knopf asked for fairly radical revisions in this novel: that it should concentrate more completely on the two very young lovers. ET replied, in terms of the utmost humility, that she could not revise...
Publishing Shena Mackay
This reached paperback from Virago in July 1992, and has been more than once reprinted.
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Publishing Emmeline Pankhurst
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
Publishing Pat Barker
In an author's note, PB explains that fact and fiction are interwoven in this book, and lists her most important sources.
Barker, Pat. Regeneration. Viking-Penguin, 1991.
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With it she left Virago for Viking-Penguin . At this time, she says,...
Publishing Sarah Waters
This novel was rejected inside a year by about ten British publishers, including Virago . They eventually accepted it, but not until SW had engaged the services of an agent (who also found the book...
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 Leonora Carrington
In 1989 Virago Press published an English version of the play, translated by Anthony Kerrigan .
Carrington, Leonora. The Seventh Horse and Other Stories. Virago, 1989.
prelims, 175
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
The Virago edition (Virago Modern Classics no. 135), 1984, has an introduction by Paul Bailey . The novel was adapted for a film in 2007, which produced the same absurdly divided reviews that had...
Publishing Ella K. Maillart
It was reprinted in 1986 by Virago with a new introduction by Mary Russell , and again in paperback in 2013 by the University of Chicago Press with a foreword by Jessa Crispin .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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Publishing Nell Dunn
Among many reprints this appeared from Virago in 1988 with an introduction by Margaret Drabble , and in the Bloomsbury Classics series in 1996. It is dedicated to ND 's then baby son Reuben.
Publishing E. H. Young
She began on this story as early as 1941 and went back to it after the Second World War, when she was already suffering from her last illness. She sent it to Jonathan Cape in...
Publishing Sarah Grand
She started writing this novel in 1895 and finished it by September 1897.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 2. Editor Forward, Stephanie, Routledge, 2000.
46, 59-60
Elaine Showalter wrote the introduction to Virago 's 1980 edition, and Sally Mitchell wrote that of Thoemmes , 1994.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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