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Publishing Michèle Roberts
She began this book out of an impulse to think about where I came from, both genetically and socio-historically.
Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007.
313
Keeping to her unalterable schedule of several hours reading a day, she did painstaking research...
Publishing Margaret Atwood
The British edition, issued by Virago , carried a slightly different title: In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination. Copies of the special limited edition cost a hundred dollars each. The printing...
Publishing Kathleen Jamie
The English edition followed two years later from Virago Press . The work was re-issued by Sort of Books , London, in 2002 with the somewhat opportunistic title Among Muslims: Meetings at the Frontiers of Pakistan.
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
ET 's novel The Sleeping Beauty was published; the Virago edition has an introduction by Susannah Clapp .
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
229
Publishing Ada Leverson
MacGibbon and Kee issued an omnibus volume including her second, fourth, and sixth novels under the title of The Little Ottleys in 1962, which was reissued in 1984 by Virago .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Christina Stead
She had originally intended this book as part of a trilogy, and began one of the other component parts as The Student of Naples, but when she went back to this manuscript on arriving...
Publishing E. Arnot Robertson
Pin Mill (on the river Orwell, almost an appendage of the larger village of Chelmondiston) is proud of its association with this novel, though EAR takes second place in its publicity to We...
Publishing Enid Bagnold
She was fired for openly criticizing the nurses' lack of compassion.
Friedman, Lenemaja. Enid Bagnold. Twayne, 1986.
8
The 15,000 copies printed by Heinemann , her publisher, sold well.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
62-3
The book was reissued by Virago Press in Septmber 1978.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1979
Publishing Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ revised her draft at the suggestion of Victor Gollancz , making cuts which she felt depleted the feeling in the novel but which he felt strengthened it. It was not until she re-read part...
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
It has been reprinted by Virago , 1985, with an introduction by Paul Bailey .
Publishing Anne Lister
Following the appearance of some selections in 1950, AL 's diary first reached print in an entire volume drawn from its opening decade, edited by Helena Whitbread for Virago , and entitled I Know My Own Heart.
Mavor, Elizabeth. “Gentleman Jack from Halifax”. London Review of Books, 4 Feb. 1988, pp. 18-19.
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Lister, Anne. I Know My Own Heart. Editor Whitbread, Helena, New York University Press, 1992.
Publishing F. Tennyson Jesse
The Feminist Companion notes that in this novel, FTJsubverts the masculine adventure-story genre with a female pirate captain.
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.
Once again, FTJ 's illustrations decorated the frontispiece and back pages. This novel was reprinted by...
Publishing Constance Lytton
It is dedicated to prisoners, and not to suffrage or political prisoners only, but to those brought to jail by distress of circumstance, drunkenness, selfish action, cruelty, or madness.CL urges them to remember...
Publishing Christina Stead
In 1976 Jean B. Read edited and published A Christina Stead Reader, including The Sensitive Goldfish from The Salzburg Tales, excerpts from all of her novels up to this point (except The Man...
Publishing F. Tennyson Jesse
It was reprinted twice by Heinemann this year and twice in 1930. There were four other editions in the next two decades, and Evans Brothers obtained the copyright to print it in 1951. The 1979...

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