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.
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.
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She was deeply upset by this, and not consoled...
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.
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The collection includes MW
's own Care and Control, as well as...
Reception
Michelene Wandor
Time Out discerned in this sequence an astonishing density of feeling.
qtd. in
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
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.