Virago Press

US sales for stories soon followed. Harper's Bazaar published one extracted from A View from the Harbour in July 1947, and a year later, in September 1948, I Live in a World of Make-Beiieve (which...

SM provided an introduction to Antonia White 's The Hound and the Falcon (the novel in which White describes her return to the Roman Catholic Church ), when it was reprinted by Virago in 1982...

In 1976 MW was one of an Open University team or collective which produced a text for a course in Art and Environment, entitled The Great Divide: The Sexual Division of Labour; or, Is it...

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...

PB published another novel (her last with Virago ), The Man Who Wasn't There.

SW published with Virago her first historical novel, Tipping the Velvet, which incorporates a lesbian love story set amid the music-halls, the sex-trade underworld, and the seedbeds of political activism in 1890s London.

published with Virago her third novel, another lesbian historical, this time with strong elements of pornography and of the thriller or detective-story, entitled Fingersmith.

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

H. D. 's autobiographical novel HERmione was posthumously published; it was reprinted as Her by Virago in 1984.

Her letters to Virago Press are said to have been on occasion masterpieces of vitriol.

The writers considered (each for a single novel) are Jane Austen , Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot , Willa Cather (for nine of whose works ASB also wrote Virago introductions),Iris Murdoch , and Toni Morrison .

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...

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...

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...

Carmen Callil , editor of Virago Press , approached Adrian House , RL 's editor at Collins , about re-issuing her work: he repelled this suggestion, condemning Virago as fairly pronounced feminists.