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Publishing Margaret Kennedy
Initial sales of the novel were slow but by the new year it was being widely read and the author had attained celebrity status. Almost instantly, she began working on a stage adaptation, which was...
Publishing George Egerton
After receiving Gill's advice, GE sent the manuscript to William Heinemann , who promptly returned it, saying he was not interested in publishing mediocre short stories.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
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She then sent it to John Lane at...
Publishing Nina Bawden
George Hardinge was NB 's first editor. She stayed with him as he moved from Collins , to Longman , and then to Macmillan . After his retirement, she moved to Gollancz (which had already...
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, 1983, p. v - xiv.
iv
A Virago edition appeared in December 1983.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Publishing Margaret Kennedy
The publication of her seventh novel marked her move from Heinemann to Cassell . Virago reissued this novel as part of its Modern Classics series in 1981 with an introduction by Kennedy's author-daughter, Julia Birley
Publishing Angela Carter
The novel was written between March and December of 1967.
Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press, 1998.
49
It was reprinted by Virago Press in 2005.
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...
Publishing Olivia Manning
It was re-issued in 1984 in an omnibus volume from Virago together with two other novels about growing up female: Rosamond Lehmann 's The Weather in the Streets and Antonia White 's Frost in May.
Publishing George Egerton
This collection initially went through four editions in a year. It has been reprinted together with its predecessor, as Keynotes & Discords, by Virago (1983, with an introduction by Martha Vicinus ) and by...
Publishing Nina Hamnett
Its publication was marked by an exhibition of NH 's drawings and paintings at the Zwemmer Gallery in Litchfield Street, London. The opening, on 8 June, was attended by many of NH 's friends...
Publishing Sybille Bedford
It was reprinted as a Virago Classic in 1984, and by Penguin in 2000.
Publishing Violet Trefusis
It was reprinted in English as one of Virago 's Modern Classics series in 1983, with an introduction by Lorna Sage , who found in VT an unexpected self-awareness
Sage, Lorna, and Violet Trefusis. “Introduction”. Hunt the Slipper, Virago, 1983, p. v - xiv.
vi
and called this work a...
Publishing Margaret Kennedy
This novel has seen many subsequent editions, including a 1985 reprint in Virago 's Modern Classics series, for which Anita Brookner again wrote the introduction.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Jan Struther
This book was reprinted by Virago in 1990 with an introduction by Valerie Grove .
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Publishing Olivia Manning
The Play Room resulted from OM 's desire, after The Balkan Trilogy, to do something completely different. She did research for it—into the habits of teenagers, such as frequenting discos.
English, Isobel, and Olivia Manning. “Introduction”. The Play Room, Virago, 1984, p. vii - xv.
xiii
She dedicated the...

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