Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007.
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Marsha Rowe
Standard Name: Rowe, Marsha
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Alison Fell | As well as Sue Todd
and Buzz Goodbody
, her friends at this stage (who were also her political associates) included Michèle Roberts
and Marsha Rowe
, with whom her friendships became lifelong. “Inventory. Acc. 12394. Alison Fell”. National Library of Scotland. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Alison Fell | It was Marsha Rowe
, a friend and contributor, who first suggested to her a book on hysterics. Fell, Alison, editor. Serious Hysterics. Serpent’s Tail, 1992. prelims |
| Literary responses | Michelene Wandor | Time Out discerned in this sequence an astonishing density of feeling. Michelene Wandor. |
| Literary responses | Jeanette Winterson | According to critic Hilary Hinds, reviewers largely concurred that Oranges was a notable first novel and praised the quality of its writing and its brilliance, originality, humour, and eccentricity. Literary critics such as John Lute |
Timeline
April 1971-April 1972
Inknewspaper briefly flourished in London as an offshoot of Oz, intended by its male editors as a link between national papers and the 1960s underground press.
June 1972
Spare Rib, a feminist periodical issued monthly by Spare Ribs
from 27 Clerkenwell Close, London, was launched to put women's liberation on the news stands.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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21 June 1973
Virago Press
held its first board meeting (of directors Carmen Callil
, Rosie Boycott
, and Marsha Rowe
). The press was established in London with financial support from Quartet Books
.
By Autumn 1975
Carmen Callil
's new Virago Press
issued its first title, Mary Chamberlain
's Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village, an indictment of rural poverty as it bears on women.