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Virago Press, the Glossary

Virago is a British publisher of women's writing and books on feminist topics.^[1]

55 relations: Adrienne Rich, Alexandra Pringle, Angela Carter, Anti-capitalism, Antonia White, Barbara Comyns, Barbara Taylor (historian), BBC Four, Beatrix Campbell, British Library, Carmen Callil, Carolyn Steedman, Chatto & Windus, Daphne du Maurier, Elaine Showalter, Eva Figes, Feminism, Frost in May, H. G. Wells, Hachette Livre, Harriet Spicer, Imprint (trade name), Jonathan Cape, Juliet Mitchell, Kate Millett, Lennie Goodings, List of women writers, Little, Brown and Company, Lynne Segal, Management buyout, Margaret Atwood, Marsha Rowe, Maya Angelou, Melanie Silgardo, Naomi Wolf, Out of print, Pluto Press, Random House, Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, Rosie Boycott, Baroness Boycott, Second-wave feminism, Sheila Rowbotham, Spare Rib, Subsidiary, Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Bodley Head, The Bookseller, The Guardian, United Kingdom, University of London, ... Expand index (5 more) »
Feminist book publishing companies
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Publishing companies established in 1973

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Cecile Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist.

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Alexandra Pringle

Alexandra Pringle, Hon FRSL (born 1953), is a British publisher.

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Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works.

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Anti-capitalism

Anti-capitalism is a political ideology and movement encompassing a variety of attitudes and ideas that oppose capitalism.

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Antonia White

Antonia White (born Eirene Adeline Botting; 31 March 1899 – 10 April 1980) was a British writer and translator, known primarily for Frost in May, a semi-autobiographical novel set in a convent school.

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Barbara Comyns

Barbara Irene Veronica Comyns Carr (born Barbara Irene Veronica Bayley; 27 December 1907Celia Brayfield (2004).. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. – 14 July 1992), known as Barbara Comyns, was an English writer and artist.

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Barbara Taylor (historian)

Barbara G. Taylor (born 1950) is a Canadian-born historian based in the United Kingdom, specialising in the Enlightenment, gender studies and the history of subjectivity.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Beatrix Campbell

Mary Lorimer Beatrix Campbell, OBE (née Barnes; born 3 February 1947) is an English writer and activist who has written for a number of publications since the early 1970s.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom. Virago Press and British Library are 1973 establishments in the United Kingdom.

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Carmen Callil

Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil, (15 July 1938 – 17 October 2022) was an Australian publisher, writer and critic who spent most of her career in the United Kingdom.

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Carolyn Steedman

Carolyn Kay Steedman, FBA (born 20 March 1947) is a British historian, specialising in the social and cultural history of modern Britain and exploring labour, gender, class, language and childhood.

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Chatto & Windus

Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten. Virago Press and Chatto & Windus are book publishing companies of the United Kingdom.

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Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright.

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Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues.

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Eva Figes

Eva Figes (15 April 1932 – 28 August 2012) was an English author and feminist.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

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Frost in May

Frost in May is a 1933 novel by the British author Antonia White that was reissued in 1978 as the first book in Virago Press's Modern Classics series of books by neglected women authors.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer.

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Hachette Livre

Hachette Livre (or simply known as Hachette) is a French publishing group that was based in Paris.

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Harriet Spicer

Harriet Greville Spicer (born 24 April 1950) is co-founder of Working Edge, which provides work coaching and mentoring in London, and is a governor of the London School of Economics.

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Imprint (trade name)

An imprint of a publisher is a trade name under which it publishes a work.

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Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879–1960), who was head of the firm until his death.

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Juliet Mitchell

Juliet Mitchell, Lady Goody (born 4 October 1940) is a British psychoanalyst, socialist feminist, research professor and author.

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Kate Millett

Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist.

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Lennie Goodings

Lennie Goodings (born 1953) is a Canadian-born publisher active in the United Kingdom.

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List of women writers

* List of women writers (A–L).

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Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston.

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Lynne Segal

Lynne Segal (born 29 March 1944) is an Australian-born, British-based socialist feminist academic and activist, author of many books and articles, and participant in many campaigns, from local community to international.

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Management buyout

A management buyout (MBO) is a form of acquisition in which a company's existing managers acquire a large part, or all, of the company, whether from a parent company or individual.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.

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Marsha Rowe

Marsha Rowe (born 1944) is an Australian-born journalist, writer and editor now living in the United Kingdom.

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist.

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Melanie Silgardo

Melanie Silgardo (born 1956) is an Indian poet and editor of Goan origin who currently lives in London.

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Naomi Wolf

Naomi Rebekah Wolf (born 1962) is an American feminist author, journalist, and conspiracy theorist.

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Out of print

An out-of-print (OOP) or out-of-commerce item or work is something that is no longer being published.

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Pluto Press

Pluto Press is a British independent book publisher based in London, founded in 1969.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron

Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron (13 September 1930 – 7 February 2015) was a British printing millionaire, philanthropist and a Labour life peer.

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Rosie Boycott, Baroness Boycott

Rosel Marie "Rosie" Boycott, Baroness Boycott (born 13 May 1951) is a British journalist and feminist.

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Second-wave feminism

Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s and being replaced by third-wave feminism in the early 1990s.

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Sheila Rowbotham

Sheila Rowbotham (born 27 February 1943) is an English socialist feminist theorist and historian.

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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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Subsidiary

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the company.

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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 Bodley Head

The Bodley Head is an English book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House. Virago Press and The Bodley Head are book publishing companies of the United Kingdom.

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The Bookseller

The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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University of London

The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom.

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Ursula Owen

Ursula Margaret Owen Hon.

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Valentine Cunningham

Valentine David Cunningham, OBE, MA, DPhil (Oxon), (born October 28, 1944) is a retired professor of English language and literature at the University of Oxford, and emeritus fellow in English literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

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Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.

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