qtd. in
O’Brien, Kate. The Last of Summer. Virago, 1990.
cover
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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. cover |
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. |
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. 32 |
Textual Production | Ann Oakley | |
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. 162 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. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
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
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
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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