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 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...
Textual Features Kate O'Brien
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.
qtd. in
O’Brien, Kate. The Last of Summer. Virago, 1990.
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But both mood and landscape are deeply coloured...
Textual Features Ali Smith
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...
Textual Features Rebecca West
Her letters to Virago Press are said to have been on occasion masterpieces of vitriol.
Callil, Carmen. “The stories of our lives”. Guardian Unlimited, 26 Apr. 2008.
Textual Features A. S. Byatt
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),
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.
Iris Murdoch , and Toni Morrison .
Textual Production E. H. Young
The Virago reprint, 1985, is entitled Jenny.
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.
Textual Production Ali Smith
AS 's first novel, a duelling narrative of female relationships and the barriers of language entitled Like, was published by Virago Press .
“Listing”. The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4917, 27 June 1997, p. 32.
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Textual Production Ann Oakley
AO published her second novel, Matilda's Mistake, again with Virago .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
MW published a collection of short fiction with Virago Press : Guests in the Body, exploring the themes of motherhood, creativity, possession, dybbuks, and music.
Wandor, Michelene. Guests in the Body. Virago, 1986.
Lawson, Nigella. “Collusion and Intrusion”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4324, 14 Feb. 1986, p. 162.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Textual Production Ali Smith
AS , along with her partner Sarah Wood and academic Kasia Boddy , published through Virago PressBrilliant Careers, an anthology of a hundred years of women's writing.
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Textual Production Gillian Allnutt
GA 's second volume of poetry, Beginning the Avocado, was issued by the feminist publishing company Virago Press .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Germaine Greer
GG edited an anthology entitled Poems for Gardeners, published by Virago Press .
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Textual Production Michelene Wandor
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...
Textual Production Gillian Allnutt
The Cambridge National Extension College is a not-for-profit organization which provides correspondence learning for students. The organization issued this workbook in association with Virago Press .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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