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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. |
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. prelims |
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 | 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. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. 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 |
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. |
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 | 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. |
Textual Production | Joan Riley | JR
's novel A Kindness to the Children appeared from her usual publisher, the Women's Press
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
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... |
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) |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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