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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.
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She dedicated the...
Publishing Elizabeth von Arnim
A month-long holiday that EA took near Rapallo with her friends Maud Ritchie and Mary Mallet provided the inspiration for this book. It has seen many theatrical and movie versions. Campbell Kane rewrote it as...
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, Free Woman and Poet, edited by R. D. Smith , a collection of her poetry and prose which includes several previously unpublished works.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 Patricia Highsmith
The latest re-issue is from Virago Press in 2015.
Publishing Isabella Bird
Before publication in book form, some of the letters appeared in periodicals such as Out West and The Leisure Hour. The book was translated for a French edition and published in America by G. P. Putnam Sons
Publishing Rosamond Lehmann
At the request of Carmen Callil of Virago Press and Chatto and Windus , RL put together a collection of captioned photographs that was published as Rosamond Lehmann's Album.
Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus, 1985.
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Publishing Mary Cholmondeley
Red Pottage sold 8,000 copies by November 1899, resulting a second edition of 10,000, which also sold out. Mudie's Library alone accounted for sales of 2,000 copies. Unfortunately MC did not reap the financial benefits...
Publishing Harriet Martineau
Chapman used her own memorials (based, she claimed, on full access to HM 's private and public papers, personal letters, and her own and others' first-hand knowledge) to flesh out the account in the manuscript...
Publishing Zoë Fairbairns
This novel originated with an idea born in the abnormally hot and drought-ridden summer of 1976, about the attempts of government to manage forces beyond its control. It grew from a short story written with...
Publishing Antonia White
The women's publishing house Virago Press reprinted AW 's Frost in May as the first title in the later famous Virago Modern Classics series.
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
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Publishing E. M. Hull
The Sheik was first published at a price of three shillings and sixpence, but its spectacular sales enabled this to be dropped to two and sixpence, then to a cheap edition that sold for a...
Publishing Isabella Bird
Subsequent editions included a two-volume version issued by the New York publishing firm of Putnam in 1881, an abridged edition from New York's Dutton in 1916, and a Virago reprint with an introduction by Pat Barr
Publishing Katherine Cecil Thurston
Like most of KCT 's novels, The Fly on the Wheel was also first serialized. It appeared from October 1907 to April 1908 in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and from February to September 1908 in...
Publishing Lettice Cooper
This was reprinted by Penguin in 1946, by Virago in 1987, and by Persephone Books in 2004.
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 Mary Stott
In this book she says: The journalist develops antennae which cast about ceaselessly for stimuli. Her own antennae responded, especially in my Guardian days, [to] currents of social change, ground swells that grew into breakers...

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