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The Women's Press, the Glossary

The Women's Press was a feminist publishing company established in London in 1977.^[1]

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Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro (10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

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Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography.

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Aurora Leigh

Aurora Leigh (1856) is a verse novel by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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Bow, London

Bow is a district in East London, England and is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Clothes iron

A clothes iron (also flatiron, smoothing iron, dry iron, steam iron or simply iron) is a small appliance that, when heated, is used to press clothes to remove wrinkles and unwanted creases.

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A domestic worker is a person who works within a residence and performs a variety of household services for an individual, from providing cleaning and household maintenance, or cooking, laundry and ironing, or care for children and elderly dependents, and other household errands.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death.

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Feminist literature

Feminist literature is fiction, nonfiction, drama, or poetry, which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing, and defending equal civil, political, economic, and social rights for women.

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Feminist science fiction

Feminist science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction (abbreviated "SF") focused on such feminist themes as: gender inequality, sexuality, race, economics, reproduction, and environment.

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Gillian Slovo

Gillian Slovo (born 15 March 1952) is a South African-born writer who lives in the UK.

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Internet Speculative Fiction Database

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a database of bibliographic information on genres considered speculative fiction, including science fiction and related genres such as fantasy, alternate history, and horror fiction.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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Janet Frame

Janet Paterson Frame (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author.

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Joan Louise Barfoot (born May 17, 1946) is a Canadian novelist.

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Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin (also; born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana.

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Lisa Alther

Lisa Alther (born July 23, 1944) is an American author and novelist.

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Lolly Willowes

Lolly Willowes; or The Loving Huntsman is a novel by English writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, her first, published in 1926.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Love and Freindship

is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790.

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Lucy Goodison

Lucy Goodison (born 1945) is a writer who has combined work as an archaeologist of the prehistoric Aegean with involvement in the practice and teaching of body psychotherapy and engagement with issues of social justice.

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Merle Collins

Merle Collins (born 29 September 1950 in Aruba), Blackwell Reference.

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Michèle Roberts

Michèle Brigitte Roberts FRSL (born 20 May 1949) is a British writer, novelist and poet.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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Naim Attallah

Naim Ibrahim Attallah (نعيمإبراهيمعطالله, 1 May 1931 – 2 February 2021) was a Palestinian-British businessman and writer.

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Nervous Conditions

Nervous Conditions is a novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988.

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Patricia Grace

Patricia Frances Grace (born 17 August 1937) is a New Zealand writer of novels, short stories, and children's books.

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Pauline Melville

Pauline Melville FRSL (born 1948) is an English-Guyanese writer and former actress of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, who is currently based in London, England.

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Phyllis Chesler

Phyllis Chesler (born October 1, 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY).

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Ros de Lanerolle

Ros de Lanerolle (22 January 1932 – 23 September 1993),Haward, Pat, "Jennifer Rosalynde de Lanerolle 1932–1993" (obituary), History Workshop Journal (1994), 37 (1):261–266, Oxford University Press.

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Rukhsana Ahmad

Rukhsana Ahmad (born 1948) is a Pakistani writer of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and a translator, who after marriage migrated to England for further studies and pursue a career in writing.

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Sheila Ernst

Sheila Hyah Sarah Ernst (25 July 1941 – 6 February 2015) was a British psychotherapist who helped to develop a radical feminist approach to group analysis.

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Sheila Jeffreys

Sheila Jeffreys (born 13 May 1948) is a former professor of political science at the University of Melbourne, born in England.

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Shulamith Firestone

Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein; January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012) was a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist.

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Spare Rib

Spare Rib was a second-wave feminist magazine, founded in 1972 in the United Kingdom, that emerged from the counter culture of the late 1960s as a consequence of meetings involving, among others, Rosie Boycott and Marsha Rowe.

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Stephanie Dowrick

Stephanie Dowrick (born 2 June 1947) is an Australian writer, Interfaith Minister and social activist.

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Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin (born January 26, 1943) is a radical feminist philosopher, essayist and playwright particularly known for her innovative, hybrid-form ecofeminist works.

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Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner (6 December 1893 – 1 May 1978) was an English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as Lolly Willowes, The Corner That Held Them, and Kingdoms of Elfin.

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The Awakening (Chopin novel)

The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published on 22 April 1899.

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The Color Purple

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995), was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.

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Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker.

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Virago Press

Virago is a British publisher of women's writing and books on feminist topics. The Women's Press and Virago Press are book publishing companies of the United Kingdom and feminist mass media.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women's_Press

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The Women's Press, the Glossary

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Defunct book publishing companies

Feminist mass media

Publishing companies established in 1977

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