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Material Conditions of Writing Angela Carter
She edited The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990) and The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1992). She did the work for the second Virago collection while in hospital with cancer, and Marina Warner
Author summary Elizabeth von Arnim
Over the course of her career EA wrote over twenty popular novels, some of which she adapted for the stage, and published her memoirs. Her bestselling first novel, Elizabeth and her German Garden (1898), brought...
Author summary Pamela Frankau
PF had a dazzling success with her first novel in 1927. She went on to publish more than thirty novels, as well as plays for stage and radio, short stories, autobiography, and an important anti-nuclear...
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
This too was reprinted as a ViragoModern Classic in 1987.
Publishing Muriel Spark
Her new publisher gave her a print-run of 15,000 copies, a larger number than for some time. Macmillan , meanwhile, held on to her backlist, keeping everything in print with reprints in short press-runs, but...
Publishing Sheila Kaye-Smith
W. L. George persuaded her to set this book in Sussex (instead of the Channel Island setting she was planning) on grounds of her identification with Sussex in the public mind.
Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, 1984, p. xi - xviii.
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When he further...
Publishing Leonora Carrington
Virago Press and American publisher E. P. Dutton released The House of Fear, a collection of prose by LC that takes the name of her first published fiction.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Carrington, Leonora. The House of Fear. E.P. Dutton, 1988.
prelims
Publishing Shena Mackay
Re-issued in paperback by Virago by March 1990, this work has gone through several impressions.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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.
Publishing Stevie Smith
Once Hamish Miles had added SS to Cape's list, Rupert Hart-Davis , a director of the firm, met her and became her friend.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage, 1983.
255
She told him Cape's advertising was generous and persuasive.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage, 1983.
256-7
But...
Publishing E. H. Young
This was the first novel she wrote after moving from Bristol to London. It went on to a further change of title in the United States, where it appeared in 1927 as The...
Publishing Mollie Panter-Downes
MPD first intended to call this book The Vanished House, as if one casualty of the war was the once ordered and modestly luxurious middle-class family house which, however, had needed a staff of...
Publishing Leonora Carrington
Virago Press issued LC 's The Seventh Horse and Other Tales, a volume of nineteen pieces and one novella (The Stone Door), some published here for the first time: a re-issue of...
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
This novel has appeared in both Penguin and Virago editions. The paper cover of an Italian translation was so hideous that ET tore it up.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986.
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Publishing Shena Mackay
This too became a Virago paperback, in 1989.
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.
Publishing Maureen Duffy
The first suggestion that she should write a novel came from Graham Nicol , editor of Hutchinson 's New Authors series.
This remarkable series published first books only, provided the same contract to all its...

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