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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...
Publishing E. H. Young
The following year Cape produced a collected edition of EHY 's works, going back as far as Yonder. Miss Mole was reprinted by Virago Press in 1984 (edited by Sally Beauman), and read aloud...
Publishing Pat Barker
PB says that one stage she threw away the manuscript of this novel in despair, but her husband rescued it from the bin.
Jaggi, Maya. “Pat Barker. Dispatches from the front”. The Guardian, 16 Aug. 2003, pp. G2: 16 - 19.
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She said she felt the absence of models for writing fiction...
Publishing Pat Barker
In an author's note, PB explains that fact and fiction are interwoven in this book, and lists her most important sources.
Barker, Pat. Regeneration. Viking-Penguin, 1991.
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With it she left Virago for Viking-Penguin . At this time, she says,...
Publishing Sarah Waters
This novel was rejected inside a year by about ten British publishers, including Virago . They eventually accepted it, but not until SW had engaged the services of an agent (who also found the book...
Publishing Molly Keane
Her last two M. J. Farrell novels were Loving Without Tears (1951) and Treasure Hunt (1952). The 1988 and 1990 Virago reprints of Loving Without Tears and Treasure Hunt had introductions by Russell Harty and...
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
Blanche Knopf asked for fairly radical revisions in this novel: that it should concentrate more completely on the two very young lovers. ET replied, in terms of the utmost humility, that she could not revise...
Publishing Shena Mackay
This reached paperback from Virago in July 1992, and has been more than once reprinted.
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 Emmeline Pankhurst
This work, written for readers in the USA, appeared as a series of articles in Good Housekeeping before it came out as a book. It was primarily ghost-written by an American writer, Rheta Childe Dorr
Publishing Nina Bawden
It has been re-issued by Virago in the Virago Modern Classics series.
Publishing Margaret Kennedy
With this publication, Kennedy began an eleven-year relationship with Heinemann . Virago republished the book in 1981 as one of its Modern Classics series; it included an introduction by Nicola Beauman . MK dedicated her...
Publishing Leonora Carrington
In 1989 Virago Press published an English version of the play, translated by Anthony Kerrigan .
Carrington, Leonora. The Seventh Horse and Other Stories. Virago, 1989.
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Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
The Virago edition (Virago Modern Classics no. 135), 1984, has an introduction by Paul Bailey . The novel was adapted for a film in 2007, which produced the same absurdly divided reviews that had...

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