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Reception Elizabeth Taylor
Although she received some glowing reviews throughout her career from some of the most distinguished of her novelistic peers, ET has also been damned with faint praise. She has been called both the modern man's...
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, 2010.
286, 287
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),
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Iris Murdoch , and Toni Morrison .
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 Production Ruth Fainlight
RF 's second collection of short fiction appeared from Virago Press , entitled Dr Clock's Last Case and Other Stories.
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Textual Production Monica Furlong
MF issued through Virago Press as one of their Pioneers series another religious biography, that of the youthful nineteenth-century saint Thérèse of Lisieux.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Textual Production H. D.
H. D. 's autobiographical novel HERmione was posthumously published; it was reprinted as Her by Virago in 1984.
Boughn, Michael. H.D.: A Bibliography 1905-1990. University Press of Virginia, 1993.
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Chisholm, Dianne. H.D.’s Freudian Poetics. Cornell University Press, 1992.
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Textual Production Sybille Bedford
This was reprinted by Virago in the same year as its predecessor.
Textual Production Zoë Fairbairns
ZF published with Virago PressStand We At Last—a new kind of novel for her, being a family saga of five generations centred on women's experience.
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15 May 2002
Textual Production Gillian Slovo
GS published with Virago her novel about the South African Truth Commission , Red Dust.
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Textual Production Edith Sitwell
The second collection of the Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell appeared, edited by Richard Greene and published by Virago Press .
Sitwell, Edith. Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell. Editor Greene, Richard, Virago Books, 1997.
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
This appeared in the UK as Poems 1976-1986, just as her earlier Selected Poems 1965-1975, 1976, had appeared in the UK with a shorter title. The British publisher in each case was Virago Press
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
Another collection, Curious Pursuits, Occasional Writing 1970-2005, published by Virago on 5 May 2005, reprints articles and reviews. Political events, gender, and the women's movement are frequent topics.
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MA claims wryly that this book...

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