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Virago is a British publisher of women's writing and books on feminist topics. [1] Started and run by women in the 1970s and bolstered by the success of the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM), Virago has been credited as one of several British feminist presses that helped address inequitable gender dynamics in publishing. [ 2 ]
Pages in category "Virago Press books" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Affinity (novel) B.
In 1973, [6] [11] Callil founded Virago Press (initially known as Spare Rib Books), to "publish books which celebrated women and women's lives, and which would, by so doing, spread the message of women's liberation to the whole population", through the work of new and neglected women writers. [12]
Virago Press Anthology Editor 2002 Memory Maps: Virago Press Memoir Reviewed in The Times [36] 2005 Otto: Virago Press / Harper Perennial: Novel Published in the US with the title Swallowing Stones. Reviewed in The Times, [37] The Irish Times, [4] The Guardian [38] and The Independent [39] 2007 Mozambique Mysteries: Virago Press Memoir Reviewed ...
The Sugar House (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1952; Virago, 1979) Beyond the Glass (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1954; Virago, 1979) Strangers (Harvill Press, 1954; Virago, 1981). Short stories and one short poem, "The Key" The Hound and the Falcon: The Story of a Reconversion to Catholic Faith (Longmans, 1965; Virago, 1980) As Once in May (1983).
Lennie Goodings (born 1953) is a Canadian-born publisher active in the United Kingdom. She is Chair of the UK British publishing house Virago Press.. Her authors include Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, [1] Sandi Toksvig, Sarah Dunant, Sarah Waters, Naomi Wolf, Linda Grant, Natasha Walter, Lyndall Gordon, Shirley Hazzard, [2] Joan Bakewell, Shirley Williams, Rachel Seiffert and Marilynne Robinson.
You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town was the first book by Zoë Wicomb.Published in 1987 (by Virago in London), it was a collection of inter-related short stories, set during the Apartheid era and partly autobiographical, the central character being a young Coloured woman growing up in South Africa, [1] speaking English in an Afrikaans-speaking community in Namaqualand, attending the University of ...
First edition (Virago Press, 1986) I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist is a novel by Christina Stead (1902–1983). It was published posthumously by Virago Press in 1986, edited and with a preface by Ron Geering.