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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. 286, 287 |
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. prelims Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Reception | Storm Jameson | |
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 | |
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 |
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