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Textual Production Alison Fell
AF titled her next novel The Bad Box. Like The Grey Dancer, it is set in Scotland in the 1950s, and it is sometimes listed as a children's book—but not by Virago , its publisher.
“Alison Fell”. Fantastic Fiction.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
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.
Textual Production Joan Riley
Together with the New Zealander Briar Wood , JR edited a collection with the punning title Leave to Stay: Stories of Exile and Belonging, published by Virago Press .
Virago Press: 30 Years of Virago. http://www.virago.co.uk/.
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Textual Production Pat Barker
PB published her second novel, Blow Your House Down, again with Virago .
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.
Textual Production Mary Wesley
When Virago Press reprinted The Shutter of Snow by MW 's friend Emily Holmes Coleman in 1981, Carmen Callil (though she had just rejected what eventually became Wesley's first adult novel) invited her to share...
Textual Production Elizabeth Taylor
US sales for stories soon followed. Harper's Bazaar published one extracted from A View from the Harbour in July 1947, and a year later, in September 1948, I Live in a World of Make-Beiieve (which...
Textual Production Jennifer Dawson
JD completed her ninth and final novel, Lady St Just, some time in 2000, only shortly before she died.
Whitby, Joy. “In Memory of Jennifer Hinton (Dawson 1949)”. The Ship, Vol.
91
, 2001–2002, pp. 54-5.
55
It does not seem that this work has ever appeared. A book by JD
Textual Production Grace Nichols
Grace Nichols published another collection, The Fat Black Woman's Poems, which demonstrates her sense of fun.
This was the date of the Virago reprint.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Sander, Reinhard, and Bernth Lindfors, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 157. Gale Research, 1996.
237
Textual Production Alison Fell
It was reprinted by Virago in 2000.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
A selection of DR 's short stories and autobiographical sketches were collected in book form for the first time in Journey to Paradise, published by Virago Modern Classics and edited by critic Trudi Tate .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Tate, Trudi, and Dorothy Richardson. “Introduction”. Journey to Paradise, Virago, 1989, p. ix - xxxvi.
x
Textual Production Pat Barker
PB published her third novel with Virago , The Century's Daughter.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Shena Mackay
SM edited and published with Virago , with her introduction, Such Devoted Sisters: An Anthology of Stories.
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 Grace Nichols
Virago Press published GN 's poetry volume Startling the Flying Fish, which has sometimes been clasified as verse for children.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production E. H. Young
EHY published her novel Celia, which in 1990 was reprinted by Virago Press .
Briganti, Chiara, and Kathy Mezei. Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young. Ashgate, 2006.
185
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
331
Textual Production Pat Barker
PB published another novel (her last with Virago ), The Man Who Wasn't There.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
4481 (17 February 1989): 178
Textual Production Sarah Waters
SW published with Virago her first historical novel, Tipping the Velvet, which incorporates a lesbian love story set amid the music-halls, the sex-trade underworld, and the seedbeds of political activism in 1890s London.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

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