Women's Press, 1977 -

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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 Malorie Blackman
MB succeeded in publishing with the Women's Press her first book, a volume for teenagers entitled Not So Stupid! Incredible Short Stories, which included both science fiction and horror tales.
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Textual Production Judith Kazantzis
This was hand-set in lead type at Camberwell College of Arts , not without problems, after Cath Jackson , Sheila Shulman , and Lilian Mohin had enrolled there as students on an otherwise all-male two-year...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
A selection of Woolf's essays was edited by Michèle Barrett for the Women's Press of London in 1979, and a scholarly, comprehensive edition of her essays by Andrew McNeillie was completed by Stuart N. Clarke
Textual Production Ursula K. Le Guin
UKLG published a book of essays, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction with Putnam's of New York and the Women's Press of London.
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Levin, Jeffrey H., and Ursula K. Le Guin. “Bibliographic Checklist of the Works of Ursula K. Le Guin”. The Language of the Night, pp. 237-70.
246
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 Joan Riley
JR 's first novel, The Unbelonging, was published by the Women's Press .
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Textual Production Joan Riley
JR published, again with the Women's Press , her third novel, Romance; it was re-issued in 1997.
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Textual Production Joan Riley
JR 's novel A Kindness to the Children appeared from her usual publisher, the Women's Press .
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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)
Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago.
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)
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 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.
272
The play was never taken on by a regular theatre company, or published until...
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.
vi
It...
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.
129
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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