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The Virago Story

Catherine Riley
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Author : Catherine Riley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781785338083

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The Virago Story -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I - 1973-83 -- Chapter 1 - Virago's Hands-on Brand of Feminism -- Chapter 2 - Changing the Literary Landscape -- Part II - 1983-94 -- Chapter 3 - 'Alternative, Autonomous, and Viable': Feminist Publishing and the Mainstream -- Chapter 4 - Fragmenting Feminism and Diversifying Women's Writing -- Part III - 1994-2004 -- Chapter 5 - Working Women and the Changing Face(s) of the Book Industry -- Chapter 6 - Third Waves and Disconnections -- Part IV - 2004-17 -- Chapter 7 - Virago's Place in the New Millennium's Literary Marketplace -- Chapter 8 - Twenty-First-Century Feminism(s) and Virago's Role for Women's Writing -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

The Virago Book Of Witches

Shahrukh Husain
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Author : Shahrukh Husain
Publisher : Virago
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780349004259

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Beware the women who are called witches, or those who claim the name for themselves... Banshees - a howling night-witch and harbinger of death; She-devils - Lilith and her daughters; or Bitches - Hecate, whose chariot is drawn by dogs. Alluring women, enchantresses, seekers of revenge, wise old women and badly-behaved girls. As Shahrukh Husain says, witches are 'womanhood in all its complexity'. Over fifty stories of crones and nixies, shape shifters and beauties are here, including the loving fox witch of Japan; Italy's Witch-Bea-Witch; Scotland's Goodwife of Laggan; Biddy Earl and the terrifying Kali and Baba Yaga who comes in many forms to haunt, entice, possess, transform and challenge. From every corner of the globe, with tom-foolery, fun, strife and victory, these folklore and legends celebrate women who step out of line.

The Virago Book of Ghost Stories

Richard Dalby
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories Book PDF

Author : Richard Dalby
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 1860491545

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Thirty four spooky stories by classic storytellers of the twentieth century - many from the 1920s and 30s - chill and excite in this classic collection. All of them demonstrate a subtle power to delight and chill at the same time as they explore those ghostly margins of the supernatural which are part of private experience as well as of popular tradition. Authors include Elizabeth Bowen, Angela Carter, Elizabeth Jane Howard, E Nesbit, Fay Weldon, Edith Wharton and Lisa St Aubin de Teran.

A Bite of the Apple

Lennie Goodings
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Author : Lennie Goodings
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771963619

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A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book for 2020 Carmen is vigorously polishing one of our three telephones. I am just twenty-five, Canadian, new to Britain and in awe of this formidable woman but as there are only two of us in the office I feel emboldened to ask: “Why did you start Virago?” She looks up and without missing a beat, replies “To change the world, darling. That’s why.” I know I am in the right place. Following the chronology of the press where she has worked nearly since its founding, Lennie Goodings tells the story of the group of visionary publishers and writers who have made Virago one of the most important and influential publishers in the English-speaking world. Like the books she has edited and published—by writers ranging from Maya Angelou and Margaret Atwood to Sarah Waters and Naomi Wolf—Goodings’s contribution to the genre breaks new ground as well, telling a story of women in the world of work, offering much needed balance to the male-dominated genre of publishing memoirs, and chronicling a critical aspect of the history of feminism: how women began to assume control over the production of their own books. Part memoir, part literary history, and part reflection on more than forty years of feminist publishing, A Bite of the Apple is a story of idealism and pragmatism, solidarity and individual ambition, of challenges met and the battles not yet won—and, above all, a steadfast celebration of the making and reading of books.

The Virago Book of Fairy Tales

Angela Carter
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Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : 1853814407

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These two collections of little-known stories from Europe, the Arctic, the USA, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, contain tales of alluring women, ailing warriors, enchantresses and seekers of revenge. The heroines are always centre stage, as large as life, or even larger.

The Virago Story

Catherine Riley
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Author : Catherine Riley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785338090

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The 1970s witnessed a renaissance in women’s print culture, as feminist presses and bookshops sprang up in the wake of the second-wave women’s movement. At four decades’ remove from that heady era, however, the landscape looks dramatically different, with only one press from the period still active in contemporary publishing: Virago. This engaging history explains how, from modest beginnings, Virago managed to weather epochal transformations in gender politics, literary culture, and the book publishing business. Drawing on original interviews with many of the press's principal figures, it gives a compelling account of Virago’s place in recent women's history while also reflecting on the fraught relationship between activism and commerce.

The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers

Mary Morris
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Author : Mary Morris
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0316858315

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Women move through the world differently from men. The constraints and perils, the perceptions and complex emotions women journey with are different. For many women, the inner landscape is as important as the outer. This does not mean that the woman traveller is not politically aware, historically astute or in touch with the customs and language of the place, but it does mean that a woman cannot travel and not be aware of her body and the limitations her sex presents.

The Book of Mother

Violaine Huisman
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Author : Violaine Huisman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982108793

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Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize A New York Times Notable Book A Library Journal Best Book of 2021 A “marvelous…superbly effective” (The New Yorker) debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes. Met by rave reviews in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and more, this stunning translation of Violaine Huisman’s “witty, immersive autofiction showcases a Parisian childhood with a charismatic, depressed parent” (Oprah Daily). Beautiful and magnetic, Catherine, a.k.a. “Maman,” smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too extravagantly, and her daughter Violaine wouldn’t have it any other way. But when Maman is hospitalized after a third divorce and a breakdown, everything changes. Even as Violaine and her sister long for their mother’s return, once she’s back Maman’s violent mood swings and flagrant disregard for personal boundaries soon turn their home into an emotional landmine. As the story of Catherine’s own traumatic childhood and adolescence unfolds, the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait of a mother as irresistible as she is impossible, as triumphant as she is transgressive. With spectacular ferocity of language, a streak of dark humor, and stunning emotional bravery, The Book of Mother is an exquisitely wrought story of a mother’s dizzying heights and devastating lows, and a daughter who must hold her memory close in order to surrender, and finally move on.

Virago Reprints and Modern Classics

D-M Withers
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Author : D-M Withers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108813356

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Reprinting, republishing and re-covering old books in new clothes is an established commercial publishing practice. How are books that have fallen out of taste and favour resituated by publishers, and recognised by readers, as relevant and timely? This Element outlines three historical textures within British culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s - History, Remembrance and Heritage - that enabled Virago's reprint publishing to become a commercial and cultural success. With detailed archival case studies of the Virago Reprint Library, Testament of Youth and the Virago Modern Classics, it elaborates how reprints were profitable for the publisher and moved Virago's books - and the Virago brand name - from the periphery of culture to the centre. Throughout Virago's reprint publishing - and especially with the Modern Classics - the epistemic revelation that women writers were forgotten and could, therefore, be rediscovered, was repeated, again and again, and made culturally productive through the marketplace.

Victorian Ghost Stories

Richard Dalby
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Author : Richard Dalby
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 088184473X

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Twenty-one stories from the pens of such writers as Charlotte Bronte and Willa Cather.

Hag

Daisy Johnson,Kirsty Logan,Emma Glass,Eimear McBride,Natasha Carthew,Mahsuda Snaith,Naomi Booth,Liv Little,Imogen Hermes Gowar,Irenosen Okojie
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Author : Daisy Johnson,Kirsty Logan,Emma Glass,Eimear McBride,Natasha Carthew,Mahsuda Snaith,Naomi Booth,Liv Little,Imogen Hermes Gowar,Irenosen Okojie
Publisher : Virago
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349013589

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'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday Times DARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID. Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England and pixies prey upon violent men. From the islands of Scotland to the coast of Cornwall, the mountains of Galway to the depths of the Fens, these forgotten folktales howl, cackle and sing their way into the 21st century, wildly reimagined by some of the most exciting women writing in Britain and Ireland today. 'A thoroughly original package that has a hint of Angela Carter' The Times 'Sharp writing and cleverly done' Spectator

MY OWN STORY (Illustrated)

Emmeline Pankhurst
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Author : Emmeline Pankhurst
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:8596547811923

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"Women are very slow to rouse, but once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible." Emmeline Pankhurst, born in 1858, was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. Pankhurst's militant tactics made her many admirers and foes alike. Tired of weak and non-violent demands for women enfranchisement, Pankhurst decided to attract attention of authorities by adopting arson as a method. Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an all-women suffrage advocacy organization dedicated to "deeds, not words". Pankhurst, her daughters, and other WSPU activists received repeated prison sentences, where they staged hunger strikes to secure better conditions. Emmeline fought till the end, sacrificed comfort lifestyle and her family, risked her own life number of time. She dedicated herself to the cause completely and did everything for her ideals and beliefs in a just and equal society. Emmeline Pankhurst died in 1928, shortly before women were given full voting rights. This edition brings to you the powerful autobiography of this courageous woman in celebration of the undying spirit of freedom, equality and woman power. In 1999 Time named Pankhurst as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating "she shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back". She was widely criticized for her militant tactics, and historians disagree about their effectiveness, but her work is recognized as a crucial element in achieving women's suffrage in Britain.

The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping

Jill Foulston
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Author : Jill Foulston
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X030276092

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Some of us adore it, some of us live for it, some of us loathe it - but we all do it. SHOP. This is a book to celebrate the passion and the fear.

Temptresses

Shahrukh Husain
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Author : Shahrukh Husain
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349004266

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Evil Women. Every culture has them. Religions have banned and branded them. Men find them terrifying and fascinating. Women secretly admire them. An eye cast over the impressive if frightening array of characters reveals baby-thief Lamia, a fertile deity from Greek mythology with a serpent's tail who seduced mortals and bred beautiful monster-children; Morgan le Fay, fairy sister to King Arthur, who according to Celtic legend tried to wrest the throne from him using her black magic powers; Medea who wreaked terrible revenge on Jason when he left her for a younger woman; Lilith, Eve, the Queen of Sheba, Delilah, Jezebel, Kali - all wicked women whose names have been with us for centuries as demons and sirens and troublemakers.

Wayward

Dana Spiotta
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Author : Dana Spiotta
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593312490

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” (The New York Times) about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life. “Exhilarating ... reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” —The New York Times Book Review Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into "the Mids"—that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state of our unraveling nation. When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life—and her family—as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. Dana Spiotta's Wayward is a stunning novel about aging, about the female body, and about female complexity in contemporary America. Probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird times, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes, and to the beauty of ruins.