Sheba Feminist Publishers

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Employer Gillian Allnutt
GA was a member of Sheba Feminist Publishers , a collective enterprise operating in London.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Occupation Gillian Allnutt
Sheba Feminist Publishers , established in January 1980, is a small independent publisher that champions the work of marginalized UK women. This includes the writing of women who [haven't] been to Oxford or Cambridge ...
Textual Production Gillian Allnutt
GA published with Sheba Feminist Publishers her first substantial poetry volume, Spitting the Pips Out.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Buchi Emecheta
The book was issued by Sheba Feminist Publishers in London.
Murray, Maggie, and Buchi Emecheta. Our Own Freedom. Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1981.
prelims
Textual Production Alison Fell
AF joined with Stef Pixner , Michèle Roberts , Tina Reid , and Ann Oosthuizen in publishing with Sheba Feminist Publishers a poetry volume, Smile Smile Smile Smile.
Fell, Alison et al. Smile Smile Smile Smile. Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1980.
prelims
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1982
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Maud Sulter
MS was the first Black collective member of Sheba Feminist Publishers ; at that time she began working to establish the Blackwomen's Creativity Project .
Pollard, Ingrid. Passion. Editor Sulter, Maud, Urban Fox Press, 1990.
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Textual Production Michèle Roberts
MR was one of five (with Alison Fell , Stef Pixner , Tina Reid , and Ann Oosthuizen ) who issued Smile Smile Smile Smile in September 1980, the fourth publication of Sheba Feminist Publishers
Textual Production Jackie Kay
JK , along with Gabriela Pearse , Barbara Burford , and Grace Nichols , published some early poems in Sheba Feminist Publishers ' collection, A Dangerous Knowing: Four Black Women Poets, 1984, re-issued in 1985.
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.
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.

Timeline

January 1980: Seven feminists founded Sheba Publishing...

Writing climate item

January 1980

Seven feminists founded Sheba Publishing in London.
Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
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Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
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Texts

Burford, Barbara et al. A Dangerous Knowing: Four Black Women Poets. Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1984.
Fell, Alison et al. Smile Smile Smile Smile. Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1980.
Murray, Maggie, and Buchi Emecheta. Our Own Freedom. Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1981.
Sulter, Maud. “Everywoman’s Right, Nobody’s Victory”. Through the Break, edited by Pearlie McNeill et al., Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1986, pp. 153-61.
Sulter, Maud. “Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues”. Charting the Journey, edited by Shabnam Grewal et al., Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1988, pp. 100-10.