Journeyman Press

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Michelene Wandor
MW published a volume entitled Upbeat: Poems and Stories, with the Journeyman Press of London and Nyack, NY.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1982
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Wandor, Michelene. Five Plays. Journeyman, 1984.
prelims
Publishing Michelene Wandor
The volume was rejected by several major play publishers, including Methuen , before the socialist Journeyman Press agreed to take it.
Wandor, Michelene. “Women playwrights and the challenge of feminism in the 1970s”. Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 53-68.
63
The collection includes MW 's own Care and Control, as well as...
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 Zoë Fairbairns
Between her first and her second novel, ZF wrote a feminist updating of the myth of Iphigenia, only to have it rejected by Macmillan .
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman, 1987.
164-5
She was deeply upset by this, and not consoled...
Reception Michelene Wandor
Time Out discerned in this sequence an astonishing density of feeling.
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Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Marsha Rowe wrote that in To Die Among FriendsMW had cut the past in slices and re-arranged it as a layer cake, pretty...
Textual Features Zoë Fairbairns
Her first here, I Was a Teenage Novelist, offers an exposé of the pitfalls of publishing for feminists, by recalling her own experience when getting a novel accepted at the age of seventeen. She...
Textual Production Michèle Roberts
MR 's work with Spare Rib won her an invitation to join the writing-editing collective of Zoë Fairbairns , Sara Maitland , Valerie Miner , and Michelene Wandor (who were already published authors), working on...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
A collection of women's plays, Strike While the Iron is Hot: Three Plays on Sexual Politics, edited by MW , was published by the Journeyman Press
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1982
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume One. Methuen, 1982.
137
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
The Journeyman Press published Tales I Tell My Mother: A Collection of Feminist Short Stories, a collection of short stories by MW , Sara Maitland , Zoë Fairbairns , Michèle Roberts and Valerie Miner .
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1979
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.

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Texts

Arrowsmith, Pat. The Prisoner. Journeyman Press, 1982.
Wandor, Michelene. “Care and Control”. Strike While the Iron is Hot, edited by Michelene Wandor, Journeyman Press, 1980.
Wandor, Michelene, editor. Strike While the Iron is Hot. Journeyman Press, 1980.
Wandor, Michelene. Upbeat. Journeyman Press, 1982.