Fairbairns, Zoë. Closing. Methuen, 1987.
prelims
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Zoë Fairbairns | Since then ZF
has published stories in such places as Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, the Women's Press
, 1985, edited by Jen Green
and Sarah Lefanu
. Fairbairns, Zoë. Closing. Methuen, 1987. prelims |
Employer | Michèle Roberts | MR
has supported herself for most of her life at a variety of short-term jobs: as a hospital cleaner, temp secretary, clerk, teacher, journalist, reviewer and critic. Michèle Roberts. http://www.micheleroberts.co.uk/index.htm. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Waters | As a child SW
loved writing poems and stories, all entirely derivative from her reading of popular books like the Dr Who novelizations. In the sixth form at school she began to find the study... |
Publishing | Alice Walker | She dedicated it (after a little parable about the ideal black man, who perhaps does not exist) to her five brothers, her friend Gloria
, and in memory of our father's shining eyes. Walker, Alice. Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning: Poems. Dial Press, 1979. vi |
Publishing | Githa Sowerby | The Play Actors
were a London society whose mandate was to encourage new authors, many of them from outside London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 272 |
Publishing | Michèle Roberts | But her second novel, then called The Heavenly Twins, was turned down by the Women's Press
with a reader's report which complained that it did not, like her first, centre on childhood and the... |
Publishing | Joan Riley | JR
has used this book as the basis for teaching visits to secondary schools, responding to the questions of children who have read it, and engaging in discussion. The Women's Press
re-issed it as a... |
Publishing | Sara Maitland | This collection, produced by the feminist collective which its editors had formed, was rejected by both Virago
and the Women's Press
, was published by Journeyman
, and issued in the USA two years later. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007. 129 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Flannery O'Connor | This collection was the first fruits of her life with her mother
on the farm Andalusia, narrowed down by the constraints of her illness. Years later she wrote of the delusion that her writing... |
Textual Production | Gillian Slovo | GS
moved to the Women's Press
for her next two detective novels, Death by Analysis (1 October 1986), which had a new edition in 1997, and Death Comes Staccato (1 September 1987), which was then... |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
entitled her first novel A Piece of the Night. It was the first original work of fiction to appear from the Women's Press
. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003. (1988) Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007. 180 |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
's second novel emerged rewritten as The Visitation, again published by the Women's Press
(a firm which was coming to focus on contemporary fiction and which issued work by a diversity of writers). Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003. (1988) |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | The common thread among Women's Press
publications was that most of the politicized novels demonstrate[d] an alliance with the women's movement, and blurred boundaries between theoretical and creative writing genres. The press's other authors included... |
Textual Production | Joan Riley | JR
's first novel, The Unbelonging, was published by the Women's Press
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Textual Production | Joan Riley | JR
published, again with the Women's Press
, her third novel, Romance; it was re-issued in 1997. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
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