Virago Press

Though she has had no academic attention until very recently, EHY appealed to a wide readership. Her works remained steadily in print during her lifetime. Writers of blurbs for her covers included E. M. Delafield

Although she received some glowing reviews throughout her career from some of the most distinguished of her novelistic peers, ET has also been damned with faint praise. She has been called both the modern man's...

TO 's reputation probably reached its zenith soon after Silences appeared. During the second half of 1979 her three books together earned about $7,000. Virago published British editions of them in September 1980.

Semi-fictional diaries by Elizabeth became the hallmark of the books with which she followed this one in series, including The Solitary Summer (1899), April Baby's Book of Tunes (1900), and Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen...

Carmen Callil , editor of Virago Press , approached Adrian House , RL 's editor at Collins , about re-issuing her work: he repelled this suggestion, condemning Virago as fairly pronounced feminists.

SJ was offered the award of CBE in 1979, but declined. Her books sold well in their time and were translated into Czech, Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish. Virago re-issued...

Virago paid a five-hundred-pound advance for each book in addition to royalties. Their first two RL titles each sold almost 20,000 copies within three years. It made her feel very peculiar to receive fan letters...

Her publishers at Persephone chart the progress of her reputation through an experience around the turn of the century related by Ian Hamilton . A train of thought about forgotten names in Johnson 's Lives...

Vernon Scannell praised particularly Dear Mr. Lee.Homing In was reprinted in The Virago Book of Love Poetry, 1987.

Within two years Olivia had been translated into seven languages. A popular film version, also titled Olivia, was released in 1950: it features Edwidge Feuillière and was directed by Jacqueline Audry . In 1987...

The ego-free narrative gave the book an appeal that attracted Beacon Press and Virago to reissue it jointly in 1987. Geographer Robert McColl , reviewing this edition, praised MC 's text for its value to...

All four Provincial Lady books were very popular with readers. Sales of these volumes in their various editions exceeded 250,000. In 1984, Virago Press sparked a resurgence of interest in EMD by publishing all four...

Recognition of the significance and complexity of DR 's oeuvre has risen markedly since the late 1970s. This predominantly feminist shift has been inspired and facilitated by Gloria Fromm 's major biography, released in 1977...

The first Dictionary of National Biography praised AW 's abilities as a poet and claimed a lasting place for her in the English poetic tradition, but by 1914 Watts-Dunton was complaining about her exclusion from...

On first publication the book did very badly in the USA: during May and June 1931 only seventeen copies sold there, although reviews and a broadcast by Bernard Shaw had reached many thousands of people...