Virago Press

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Reception E. M. Delafield
All four Provincial Lady books were very popular with readers. Sales of these volumes in their various editions exceeded 250,000. In 1984, Virago Press sparked a resurgence of interest in EMD by publishing all four...
Reception Dorothy Bussy
Within two years Olivia had been translated into seven languages. A popular film version, also titled Olivia, was released in 1950: it features Edwidge Feuillière and was directed by Jacqueline Audry . In 1987...
Reception Daphne Du Maurier
DDM found a champion in her fellow novelist Margaret Forster , who published a biography in 15 March 1993 and later wrote the entry on her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Forster...
Reception Mildred Cable
The ego-free narrative gave the book an appeal that attracted Beacon Press and Virago to reissue it jointly in 1987. Geographer Robert McColl , reviewing this edition, praised MC 's text for its value to...
Reception Tillie Olsen
TO 's reputation probably reached its zenith soon after Silences appeared. During the second half of 1979 her three books together earned about $7,000. Virago published British editions of them in September 1980.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press.
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Reception E. H. Young
Though she has had no academic attention until very recently, EHY appealed to a wide readership. Her works remained steadily in print during her lifetime. Writers of blurbs for her covers included E. M. Delafield
Reception Sylvia Pankhurst
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...
Reception Rosamond Lehmann
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.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
393
Reception Augusta Webster
The first Dictionary of National Biography praised AW 's abilities as a poet and claimed a lasting place for her in the English poetic tradition, but by 1914 Watts-Dunton was complaining about her exclusion from...
Reception Leonora Carrington
LC 's maternal niece Joanna Moorhead published her biography The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington this year, the centenary of Carrington's birth. The book was released by Virago Press .
Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press.
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Reception Storm Jameson
SJ was offered the award of CBE in 1979, but declined.
“The Refuseniks and the Offers They Turned Down”. Sunday Times, p. 5.
5
Her books sold well in their time and were translated into Czech, Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish. Virago re-issued...
Reception Dorothy Richardson
Recognition of the significance and complexity of DR 's oeuvre has risen markedly since the late 1970s. This predominantly feminist shift has been inspired and facilitated by Gloria Fromm 's major biography, released in 1977...
Reception Rosamond Lehmann
Virago paid a five-hundred-pound advance for each book in addition to royalties. Their first two RL titles each sold almost 20,000 copies within three years. It made her feel very peculiar to receive fan letters...
Reception Susan Miles
Her publishers at Persephone chart the progress of her reputation through an experience around the turn of the century related by Ian Hamilton . A train of thought about forgotten names in Johnson 's Lives...
Reception U. A. Fanthorpe
Vernon Scannell praised particularly Dear Mr. Lee.
Wainwright, Eddie. Taking Stock, A First Study of the Poetry of U.A. Fanthorpe. Peterloo Poets.
81
Homing In was reprinted in The Virago Book of Love Poetry, 1987.

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