Lucia is more or less simply rendered as an Italian-accented virago.
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Hachette (Hodder & Stoughton, Sceptre, Virago and Headline Review) has received nine listings.
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Her 1983 Yamaha Virago XV500 is less in-your-face than a Harley-Davidson.
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It's unclear whether "Outrages" will also be recalled in Britain, where it was released in May by the publisher Virago.
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It was someone laying down the law — without worrying that a man would label her a virago or harridan or termagant.
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Atkinson introduces that tantalizing element when Vince Ives's virago of a wife, Wendy, is beaten to death with a golf club.
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Some of her income may have come from a side business she owned and ran from her office computer called Virago Inc.
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LONDON — Two collections of previously undiscovered short stories found among the papers of the prolific author Noel Streatfeild will be published by Virago Press.
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Gracie's publisher, Virago, is sending the book to the chief executives of Britain's 100 largest listed companies, hoping to encourage executives to take concrete action.
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Despite the work's title, Dejanira is the one who dominates the action, evolving through seven arias from impatient wife to imperious virago to despairing murderer.
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The encounter led to Ms. Figes's writing "The Big Fat Bitch Book for Girls" (2009) for Virago, which specializes in books by and about women.
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But Sarah Savitt, a publisher at Virago, believes that Ms Ensler's creation is still urgent, particularly in light of the current #MeToo and Time's Up movement.
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Virago; £18.99 MARILYNNE ROBINSON's new collection of essays is the literary equivalent of Sachertorte: so rich that it is best consumed one small slice at a time.
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In 1973, when Carmen Callil founded Virago Press to promote women's writing, she used Whipple as the go-to symbol for the sort of book she would not abide.
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Critic's Notebook At the beginning of Cynthia Oliver's "Virago-Man Dem" on Wednesday, as audience members settled into the BAM Fisher theater, four performers entered, one by one, and stood still.
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In their challenge, Welch and Baker "invite Mr. Stokes, and his bold Amazonian Virago," whom they claim to suffer from vanity based on several "petty successes," to fight on Monday, July 3rd, 193.
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The main characters — the macho Robert Jordan; his compliant love interest, Maria; and his friend, the "ugly" virago Pilar — seemed to have been slapped like paper dolls against the background of the Spanish Civil War.
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"She was extraordinarily honest, brave, funny, and intent on making a difference through understanding the relationships of our lives," her editor and publisher, Lennie Goodings, the chairwoman of the London-based Virago Press, said by email.
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In "Virago-Man Dem," which had its world premiere as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, this Bronx-born, Caribbean-raised choreographer set out to uproot stereotypes related to black male identity and conjure more nuanced, expansive alternatives.
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In the 2008 model overview, the Virago 250 has been replaced with the V Star 250, but the specifications remain similar to the Virago 250.
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Virago produced nine foals from 1769 to 1779, with Hollandoise being her fifth foal. In addition to Hollandoise, Virago produced her grey full-brother Tarare and half-sister Gunilda. Gunilda (called Virago in the United States) produced the successful American racemare Virago (sired by Shark) and is the maternal ancestor of Kentucky Derby winner Spokane. Hollandoise was jointly owned by Thomas Stapleton and Sir Thomas Gascoigne during her racing career.
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Virago had some success as a broodmare. After being covered by her racecourse rival Kingston, she produced Thalestris, who won the Cesarewitch Handicap in 1864. Virago died in 1869.
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Virago was conceived by Carmen Callil. From 1973 to 1975 it was run by an independently owned editorial imprint by Carmen Callil, Ursula Owen and Harriet Spicer. In 1976 Virago became self-financing and independent with capital of just £1,500 and a loan of £10,000. In 1977, inspired by, among other things, Sheila Rowbotham's Hidden from History, Virago began the Virago Reprint Library, which fed an eager new audience’s desire for women’s history.
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Rowe and Boycott became directors of Virago in its first years."About Virago Press" , Virago.co.uk; accessed 26 November 2015. Also in 1972 Callil launched a book publicity company, Carmen Callil Limited.
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These were the only casualties on board Virago during the entire war. Virago subsequently participated in preparations for Operation Zipper (the invasion of Malaya) in July/August 1945, and its eventual execution as a reoccupation manoeuvre in September 1945 following the surrender of Japan. Based in Hong Kong with the British Pacific Fleet after VJ day, Virago returned to Chatham, Kent in December 1945. Throughout her wartime commission, Virago was under the command of Lt. Cdr.
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The Yamaha XV750 or Virago 750 was a Yamaha V-twin cruiser motorcycle. Made from 1981 to 1983 and 1988 to 1998, it was part of Yamaha's Virago line of cruisers. It was Yamaha's first foray into the V-twin cruiser market and shares a frame and many components with the larger XV1100 Virago.
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A View of the Harbour was first published in 1947 by Peter Davies Ltd. in England and by Alfred A. Knopf in the United States. Virago Press published it in the Virago Modern Classics series in 1987. In 2018 it was one of 12 novels included in a new Virago series published in celebration of Virago's fortieth anniversary.
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Agylla virago is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Walter Rothschild in 1913. It is found in Taiwan."Churinga virago (Rothschild, 1913) 橙褐丘苔蛾". Catalogue of Life in Taiwan.
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Pachylaelaps virago is a species of mite in the family Pachylaelapidae.
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As a four-funneled 30-knotter destroyer, Virago was assigned to the B class. Virago was still listed as part of the China Squadron in December 1913, but in January 1914, she was listed for sale at Hong Kong. The outbreak of the First World War ended these plans, however, and Virago was re-commissioned at Hong Kong on 15 August 1914. Virago was paid off in preparation for sale on 10 May 1919, and was sold for scrap on 10 October that year.
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Goodings has worked for Virago Press since 1978, through all its ownership changes. Virago was founded in 1973 by Carmen Callil, who was convinced an imprint devoted to women's writing, lives and concerns, could be both financially viable and an inspiration. Virago is now an imprint at Little, Brown owned by Hachette. Beginning as publicist, Goodings continued to hold this position when the company became part of the British group Chatto, Virago, Bodley Head and Cape until it was sold to Random House, USA.
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She entered the publishing profession as an editor at Frank Cass in the early 1970s. She then worked briefly at Barrie & Jenkins. In 1974, Owen became a founder director of Virago Press."The History of Virago".
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She was to become a full-time director, with considerable responsibility for the content of the Virago publishing list. In 1976 Virago became an independent company,Toynbee, Polly, "From the archive, 26 January 1981: Virago Press gives women writers a voice", The Guardian, 26 January 2015. with Callil, Owen and Spicer as directors, shortly to be joined by Lennie Goodings and Alexandra Pringle. In 1982 Callil was appointed managing director of Chatto & Windus and The Hogarth Press, where she remained until 1994, continuing also as chairman of Virago until 1995.
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Two unpublished short stories by Streatfeild are set to be published by Virago Press in November 2018 and mid-2019 after they were discovered by Streatfeild’s nephew, William Streatfeild and Donna Coonan, the editorial director of Virago Press.
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"The Virago Modern Classics have reshaped literary history and enriched the reading of us all. No library is complete without them" Margaret Drabble In 1982 Virago became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chatto, Virago, Bodley Head and Cape Group. In 1987 Callil, Lennie Goodings, Ursula Owen, Alexandra Pringle and Harriet Spicer put together a management buy-out from CVBC, then owned by Random House, USA.
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Scellus virago is a species of long-legged fly in the family Dolichopodidae.
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The Virago list also contains works with feminist themes by male authors such as H. G. Wells. Valentine Cunningham has praised Virago for trawling "most impressively and fruitfully in the novel catalogues" of the 1930s for women's fiction to reprint. In 1982, Virago became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chatto, Virago, Bodley Head, and Cape Group (CVBC), but in 1987 Callil, Lennie Goodings, Ursula Owen, Alexandra Pringle, and Harriet Spicer put together a management buy-out from CVBC, then owned by Random House, USA. The buy-out was financed by Rothschild Ventures and Robert Gavron.
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158 She also wrote articles on a corruption scandal in Byelorussia.Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.160 During this time, she also worked on Leon Trotsky's Commission for the Improvement of Industrial Products.Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.
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Forgetful of their sex: female sanctity and society, ca. 500–1100. University Of Chicago Press, 2001. Page 50. . The word virago could also be used disparagingly, to imply that a virago was not excellent or heroic, but was instead violating cultural norms.
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For 2008 it was renamed the V-Star 250. According to Motorcyclist magazine, the early Virago has a design flaw in the starter system. This magazine states that the starter's defect exists in early Virago models made in year 1981, 1982 and 1983.
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Virago, a specialist in women's literature, accepted the book and it was published in 1982.
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History HMS Tremendous Stewart served in Grampus until 1847, when he studied steam engineering at Woolwich. On 18 May 1848, he was promoted to commander. On 5 August 1851, Commander Stewart commissioned the 6-gun paddle-sloop Virago at Woolwich. Virago served on the Pacific station.
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History HMS Virago On 4 December 1851, Virago put into the Chilean port of Punta Arenas in the Strait of Magellan.Chapter IV, Brown, Charles H., Insurrection at Magellan. Narrative of the Imprisonment and Escape of Capt. Chas. H. Brown, from the Chilian Convicts, published by Geo.
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The word virago has almost always had an association with cultural gender transgression. A virago, of whatever excellence, was still identified by her gender. There are recorded instances of viragos (such as Joan of Arc) fighting battles, wearing men's clothing, or receiving the tonsure.Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg.
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The Life and Death of Harriett Frean (Virago ) is a 1922 novel by English author May Sinclair.
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250px The Yamaha XV920R is a Japanese motorcycle. It was introduced in 1981, along with the XV750 Virago. In addition to larger engine displacement it featured "standard" styling and technical features, in contrast to the cruiser style of the Virago . This model was geared toward European-style sport touring.
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The Yamaha XV920 or Virago 920 was a Yamaha V-twin cruiser motorcycle. Made from 1981 to 1983, it was part of Yamaha's Virago line of cruisers. The 920 was redesigned in 1984 and engine size increased to 981 cc (59.9 cu in) resulting in the renamed XV1000.
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Virago was ridden to victory in the one-mile classic by John Wells at odds of 1/3, beating Meteora by a neck. This race was her only classic engagement: Virago was not entered in The Derby, The Oaks or the St. Leger Stakes. At Goodwood in July, Virago contested the two and a half mile Goodwood Cup, one of the season's most prestigious weight-for-age races. She was made 1/6 favourite and won by fifteen lengths from Indian Warrior.
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When Virago and the Chilean ships encountered the Florida, at a place called Ancud, the Florida was back in friendly hands. Viragos crew lent assistance to Florida, took the prisoners and treasure on board. After the incident, there was some dispute about treasure recaptured by the Virago; an American called Charles H. Brown from the Florida tried to claim it was his, and wrote a book to back up his claims. On 5 April 1853, Commander Edward Marshall took over command of Virago.
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Until the mid-1990s, she worked at the feminist Virago Press before turning to creative writing and teaching.
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In September 2013, plans were submitted for its demolition. Three of Webb's novels have been reprinted by Virago.
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Elaine Showalter, Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle. Virago Press Ltd, 1992. p. 145.
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Harriet Spicer became Callil's assistant. This company, run by Spicer and Callil, helped to finance Virago in its early years, together with Callil's inheritance from her grandfather. Further assistance came from Quartet Books, with whom the first nine Virago titles were published. Ursula Owen became a part-time editor in 1974.
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After leaving university, Baxter worked for Penguin Books as a copywriter and then Virago Press as a press officer.
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English wrote introductions for Virago reissues of several of Olivia Manning's books and collaborated with Braybrooke on Manning's biography.
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Thus virago joined pejoratives such as termagant, mannish, amazonian and shrew to demean women who acted aggressively or like men.
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Day ran Virago in her first serious private trial in October 1853 and was so impressed that he offered to buy the filly from Padwick for £3,000, but his offer was rebuffed. Virago showed none of her ability on her only racecourse appearance of 1853, finishing well beaten in the Astley House Selling Stakes at Shrewsbury Racecourse in November. In fact, Day had made sure that Virago would not produce her true running by having her accompanied to the start by a stable lad who was instructed to hold onto the filly until the rest of the runners had gone at least fifty yards. The purpose of the run was to qualify Virago for handicap races with an unrealistically low rating.
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Virago is a London-based British publishing company committed to publishing women's writing and books on feminist topics. 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. Unlike alternative, anti-capitalist publishing projects and zines coming out of feminist collectives and socialist circles, Virago branded itself as a commercial alternative to the male dominated publishing industry and sought to compete with mainstream international presses.Murray, Simone.
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As described by Hooker (op cit.). Another member of the crew of Virago was Stanley Bonnett, a wireless operator, who later became a journalist and wrote a novel based on his time on board. The title of his novel Jump, Boy, Jump (Michael Joseph, 1979) was the order given by an officer on Virago to sailors on Hardy to jump ship at the opportune moment as the ships converged. Following a bow collision between the two ships, Virago disengaged and HMS rescued the rest of the crew and her officers (and then scuttled Hardy).
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Between 1946 and 1949 Virago was part of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla, based in the Mediterranean. On 2 August 1946, Virago and Venus participated in the rescue of crew from the British tanker , which caught fire, exploded and sank at Haifa, Palestine, with the loss of up to 25 lives. On 19 September 1946, gunfire from Virago was used to scuttle the forward half of the wreck of , the tanker which had played a pivotal role in the Siege of Malta. Between 1949 and 1951 she was held in reserve at Chatham Dockyard.
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The Yamaha XV125 is a cruiser motorcycle built by the Yamaha Motor Company, which was produced from 1997 to 2004. The XV 125 Virago is, apart from the 125cc-smaller displacement, identical to the larger sister model Yamaha XV250 Virago. The Virago 125 is equipped with an air-cooled two-cylinder four-stroke engine, which initially developed a power of 7.3 kW / 10 hp (1997) and later developed a power of 8.3 kW / 11.4 hp (1998-2002). Power is transmitted to the road through a five-speed chain drive.
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Virago was decommissioned in 1963 and held in reserve at Devonport. She arrived in Faslane for breaking up in June 1965.
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The sinking of by an Allied force that included HMS Savage, Saumarez, Scorpion, HNoMS Stord, HMS Opportune, Virago, Musketeer and Matchless.
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Four ships, Verulam, Venus, Vigilant and Virago, formed part of the 26th Destroyer Flotilla that ambushed and sank the , off Sumatra.
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During 1924-1925, she worked as a special correspondent for Izvestiya, first in the Northern Urals where she adopted a boy by the name of Alyosha Makarov.Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.154-155 Her later writings came from Hamburg, whilst she was visiting a malaria clinic in nearby Wiesbaden.Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.
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Natasha Walter (born 20 January 1967) is a British feminist writer and human rights activist. She is the author of a novel, A Quiet Life (2016), two works of feminist non-fiction: Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism (2010, Virago) and The New Feminism (1998, Virago). She is also the founder of the charity Women for Refugee Women.
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Her first novella, The Last Kings of Sark, won the inaugural Paris Literary Prize in 2011 and was later published by Virago.
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Great Britain: Virago, 2005, p. 521 . Fawcett was granted an honorary doctorate of law by the University of St Andrews in 1899.
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The Virago 250 is an entry-level cruiser motorcycle built by Yamaha Motor Company. It has a claimed top speed of 85 mph.
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Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.112 In October 1923 she traveled illegally to Germany to witness the revolution there first-hand and write about it, producing collections of articles entitled Berlin, October 1923 and Hamburg at the Barricades. During her stay in Germany she had become Karl Radek's lover.Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.143 On her return to Russia she and Raskolnikov divorced in January 1924.Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.149 The failure of the German revolution provoked furious arguments in the USSR about whose fault it was.
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On 5 September Virago won the Warwick Cup over three miles at Warwick Racecourse, taking the race by six lengths from a field that included the Oaks winner Mincemeat and Kingston, who had finished second by a head to West Australian in the Ascot Gold Cup. On her last start of 1854, Virago traveled to Doncaster in mid September and won the Doncaster Cup "in a canter" from Kingston, the only horse to oppose her. In all, Virago won ten of her eleven starts in 1854, took £9,750 in prize money, and earned her owner a further £80,000 in winning bets.
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Page 182. The Vulgate reads: > Dixitque Adam hoc nunc os ex ossibus meis et caro de carne mea haec > vocabitur virago quoniam de viro sumpta est. > "And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she > shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man." The Middle English poem Cursor Mundi retains the Latin name for the woman in its otherwise Middle English account of the creation: > Quen sco was broght be-for adam, Virago he gaf her to nam; þar for hight sco > virago, ffor maked of the man was sco.
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The Yamaha XV700 or Virago 700 was a Yamaha V-twin cruiser motorcycle. Made from 1984 to 1987, it was part of Yamaha's Virago line of cruisers. It was informally known as Yamaha's "tariff buster" of the US's 1983 tariff on imported motorcycles with over 700 cc of displacement. When the tariff ended in 1988, Yamaha switched back to the XV750.
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Virago developed respiratory problems towards the end of her three-year-old season. These problems became more serious in 1855 and Virago failed to reproduce her best form. She won the Port Stakes at Newmarket in spring, but her performances deteriorated thereafter. At Ascot she was beaten in the Royal Hunt Cup and finished third to Fandango in the Ascot Gold Cup.
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Carter, Angela (1971) Love. London. Virago. Carter's novels Shadow Dance (1966), Several Perceptions (1968) and Love are sometimes referred to as the "Bristol Trilogy".
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Sinclair, May, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean (Virago, 1980) Described as a "small, perfect gem of a book" by author Jonathan Coe.
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In May 2016 Virago reissued the novel on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of its original publication, with a new introduction by Sarah Waters.
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It was later unofficially released by the Russian pirate label Spurk on a regular compact disc under the title Virago, with the bonus track Decades.
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont was published in 1971 in hardcover by Chatto & Windus in the United Kingdom and The Viking Press in the United States. It was published in paperback by Virago Press in 1982 as part of the Virago Modern Classics series, with an introduction by Paul Bailey. In that introduction Bailey reveals that he was Taylor's inspiration for the character Ludo Myers.Pages vii-viii.
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According to Motorcyclist magazine, the early Virago has a design flaw in the starter system. This magazine states that the starter's defect exists in early Virago models (1982 and 1983). However, the same flawed starter system was installed in the XV700, which was produced until 1986, and the XV920. The XV1000 had an improved system since it began production in 1984, which doesn't present the flaws.
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A short production of 125 cc was also manufactured. Yamaha made an XV125, XV250, XV400, XV500, XV535, XV700, XV750, XV920R, XV1000/TR1, and an XV1100, with the XV400SCLX being the rarest. The larger-displacement Viragos were eventually phased out of production, replaced by the V-Star and Road Star series of motorbikes. The last motorcycle to bear the Virago name was the 2007 Virago 250.
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She was part of Virago's management-buy-out team in 1987, becoming the Publishing Director in 1992. Goodings remained as Publisher and Editorial Director when, after eight years of independence, the company was sold to Little, Brown in 1995. She became Virago Chair in 2017 and appointed Sarah Savitt as Publisher. In 2006, Virago and Little, Brown became part of The Hachette Book Group.
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The Yamaha XV1000 or Virago 1000 was a Yamaha V-twin cruiser motorcycle. The XV920 was redesigned in 1984 and engine size increased to 981 cc (59.9 cu in) resulting in the renamed XV1000. Made from 1984 through 1985, it was part of Yamaha's Virago line of cruisers. In 1986, engine size was again increased to 1,063 cc (64.9 cu in), resulting in the renamed XV1100.
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On 26 June 1897, the newly completed Virago took part in the naval review at Spithead to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The Laird-built torpedo boat destroyers were considered well suited to overseas deployment, being good sea boats and having adequate stability for making long oceanic journeys to their stations, and so Virago was posted, along with sister ship to the Pacific Station, based at Esquimalt in British Columbia, Canada. In 1903, Virago was transferred to the China Station. On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyers were to be grouped into classes designated by letters based on contract speed and appearance.
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The DragStar began as the XVS650 in 1997 in Europe (400 version available in Japan since 1996), and grew in 1999 to include the XVS1100 Custom. The 1100 used a reworked version of the venerable Virago 75-degree, air-cooled v-twin engine which had been in use since the early 1980s. The Star version offered better torque for the new midsize cruiser bike. The Star carried over the shaft-drive layout from the Virago, but relied on a new suspension and frame, discarding the outboard dual shocks and stressed-member engine arrangement of the Virago in favor of a single-shock and twin downtubes.
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The was intercepted by the 26th Destroyer Flotilla (HMS Saumarez, Verulam, Venus and Virago) and sunk 55 miles (89 km) off Penang, on 16 May 1945.
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Our Spoons Came from Woolworths was published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1950. It was reissued by Virago in 1983, and has been reprinted several times since then.
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A Wreath of Roses is a novel by Elizabeth Taylor published in 1949. It was republished in 2011 by Virago Press with an introduction by Helen Dunmore ().
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In 2013 Virago reprinted Tin Toys Trilogy: Tin Toys (1986) Unicorn Sisters (1988) A Bubble Garden (1989). During the 1980s she wrote introductions to several novels by Barbara Comyns published by Virago. In her early career, Holden's writing room was a booth in the typing room of the British Library. Over the years she benefitted from writers' retreats, and spent some time at the Millay, Yaddo and McDowell Colonies for Artists.
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Virago published Thorn's memoir Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star early in 2013.Profile, The Observer, 20 January 2013 It received widespread critical acclaim and was a Sunday Times Top Ten best-seller. In 2014, she began a regular column for the New Statesman. In 2015 Virago published her second book, Naked at the Albert Hall, about singers and singing.
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Portrait of Marie-Louise de Tassis by Van Dyck. White satin gown with virago sleeves tied with pink ribbon, worn under a black short-sleeved gown, c.1630. A virago sleeve is a women's item of clothing fashionable in the 1620s–1630s. It is a full "paned" or "pansied" sleeve (that is, made of strips of fabric) gathered into two puffs by a ribbon or fabric band above the elbow.
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Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.9 She spent her early childhood in Tomsk, where her father was appointed Professor of Law at the University in 1897.Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.11 Between 1903 and 1907, she and her family resided in Berlin, Germany, where the family fled because of the father's political activity, with Larisa attending a primary school in the Zehlendorf district.Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.12 In the aftermath of the 1905-06 Russian Revolution, they moved to Saint PetersburgRadek, K. (1977) "Larissa Reisner" In Reissner, L. Hamburg At the Barricades and Other Writings of Weimar Germany London: Pluto pg.
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At Mrs. Lippincote's is a 1945 novel by Elizabeth Taylor, her first novel. It was published again in 1988 by Virago Press, containing an autobiographical sketch of the author.
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When first published, the book jacket carried a warning that its opening scene is "almost unacceptable". It was republished by W.W. Norton & Company in 2004 and by Virago in 2014.
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She was survived by her daughter, Doris, who later edited a selection of her writings together with a brief biography.Chew, Ada Nield; Chew, Doris (1982). Ada Nield Chew. Virago Press. .
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On 3 April 1944 Virago escorted the carrier HMS during Operation Tungsten, which was an inconclusive air attack on the at her base in Kaafjord in the far north of Norway.
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The stabbing incident has been a focal point for feminist critics of Mailer, who point to themes of sexual violence in his work.Millet, Kate. Sexual Politics Virago, 1991. pp. 314–5.
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Lennie Goodings (publisher of Virago) won Editor of the Year. Virago’s contemporary fiction list includes award-winners and bestsellers including Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Sarah Waters, Linda Grant, Sarah Dunant, Gillian Slovo, Shirley Hazzard; from the Man Booker to the Orange Prize for Fiction. Virago launched its non-fiction list with memoirs and biography – Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth and Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – and continues with the bestselling The Bolter by Frances Osborne; Lyndall Gordon’s biography of Emily Dickinson, Lives Like Loaded Guns; Shirley Williams’ autobiography; and Ingrid Betancourt’s memoir. Continuing to publish up-to- date, thought-provoking analysis, Virago has published Natasha Walter, Joanna Bourke, Naomi Wolf, Lisa Appignanesi and Åsne Seierstad’s The Bookseller of Kabul.
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In addition to escorting the perilous Arctic convoys during 1943-44, Virago participated with other British destroyers in the Battle of North Cape on 26 December 1943, where her torpedoes helped sink the badly beaten , following a fierce fight between the Germans and the battleship .Virago was unusual in having on its crew an American citizen, Douglas Hooker (1925-2006), who later wrote about his experiences in An American in the Royal Navy during World War II, published by Southwestern University, 2011. He eventually became a Professor of Psychology at Southwestern University, Texas. On 30 January 1944, while escorting Convoy JW 56B to Murmansk, Virago rescued 78 men from the stricken HMS , whose stern had been blown off by an acoustic torpedo (resulting in 35 casualties).
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The Yamaha Virago XV1100 is a motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha Motor Corporation between 1986 and 1999. It was one of several in the Virago line and was positioned as a large-size cruiser with an engine displacement of . It was one of the few cruiser-style motorcycles available with a shaft drive instead of a chain or belt final drive system, as well as a V-twin engine of that size. Its heavily chromed body styling was also distinctive.
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The Yamaha Virago 535 is a motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha Motor Corporation. It is one of several in the Virago line and is positioned as mid- size metric cruiser with an engine displacement of . It is unique in being one of the few smaller cruiser-style motorcycles available with a shaft drive instead of a chain or belt final drive system, as well as a V-twin engine of that size. Its heavily chromed body styling is also distinctive.
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On 26 March 1945 she, along with the destroyers , , and , intercepted a Japanese supply convoy east of Khota Andaman, Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. She and Virago sank . Also part of the escorting destroyers of the 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron involved in Operation Dracula from April to May 1945. She participated in the Battle of the Malacca Strait with the destroyers Saumarez, , , and Virago which culminated in the sinking of the Japanese cruiser on 16 May 1945.
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According to Gluck's biographer Diana Souhami, "They sat together in the third row and felt the intensity of the music fused them both into one person and matched their love." Gluck referred to it as the "YouWe" picture. It was later used as the cover of a 1982 Virago Press edition of The Well of Loneliness. Virago reprinted the book eight times in as many years making Medallion perhaps one of the most famous depictions of a lesbian relationship.
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Alexandra Pringle (born 1952/53) is a British publisher. She was a founding director of Virago Press and the editor-in-chief of Bloomsbury Publishing for 18 years as of March 2018.
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Jill Foulston, The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping, p.84, 2007. (, 9781844082759) Considered obsolete by some,Judith Martin, Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium, p.453, 1990.
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Slammerkin was first published in London, England, by Virago Press. It was reissued in 2009 in Toronto by HarperCollins Canada, and once more in 2012 in New York City by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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187 where she passed her final school exams with a gold medal in 1912 and went on to study at St Petersburg University, including studying courses at the Faculty of Law and Philology as well as psychoneurology at the Bekhterev Research Institute.Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.22-23 During the First World War, she published an anti-war literary journal, Rudin, financially supported by her parents who pawned their possessions to fund it.Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.
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During the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944 she fired on German positions behind Lion-sur-Mer on Sword Beach, and later gave cover fire for troops advancing inland.Hooker (op cit.) reports the Captain of Virago (Lt. Cdr. White) announcing his intention (on the eve of D Day) that "in the event of Virago sustaining damage enough to sink her, I will endeavor to beach her. We shall then fight our ship to the last man and the last shell", (page 57).
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An American edition of the novel appeared in 1996. A French- language version, La Maison des Orchidées, appeared in 1954.Biography of author Phyllis Shand Allfrey, The Orchid House (1991 reprint). London: Virago Modern Classics.
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It was shortlisted for the Undiscovered Authors Competition in 2006, as well as for the Daily Telegraph's Write a Novel in a Year Competition 2007. Her debut novel Bitter Leaf was published in 2010 by Virago Press and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize - Africa Best First Book 2011. Her short story "Trompette de la Mort" was First Runner up for the inaugural Costa Short Story Award in the 2012 Costa Book Awards and her work was included in the Virago is 40 anthology (2013).
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Saltram was the fifth of eleven foals born to Mr Parker's mare Virago went on to produce the 1787 Epsom Oaks winner Annette and was the female-line ancestor of the Derby winners Ditto, Pan and Gustavus.
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Virago remained off the coast of Normandy at various stations providing support for the invasion force until 6 July, when she departed and resumed operations off Norway and with the Arctic convoys through the end of September.
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He could still meet a weight of 6 stone at the time. The next few years were full of notable achievements. He won his first classic on Virago, often judged the finest filly of the 19th century.
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A Game of Hide and Seek is a 1951 novel by Elizabeth Taylor. A Game of Hide and Seek was published again in 1986 by Virago Press and Penguin Books, with an introduction by Elizabeth Jane Howard.
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Sister George performed in and are interviewed in the film She's Real, Worse Than Queer by Lucy Thane. Ellyott was interviewed for the book Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock by Amy Raphael (Virago Press, 1995).
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Virago, a dark chestnut filly with one white foot who stood 16 hands high, was bred, like the Derby winner Voltigeur, by Robert Stephenson at his stud at Hart, near Hartlepool, County Durham. Virago was described as "more racing-looking than handsome" and having a "quiet and docile" temperament. As a yearling, she was bought for either £300, £350 or £460 (sources differ) at the Doncaster sales by Henry Padwick, a notorious moneylender who used the name "Mr. Howard" for his racing interests, with John Scott as the underbidder.
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When she added a win in the Nassau Stakes for fillies at the same meeting, her superiority was so evident that no official odds were recorded. In August Virago returned to York and ran twice. She won the Yorkshire Oaks, and then suffered her only defeat of the year when she was beaten by a two-year-old filly named Ellermire in a six-furlong County Plate. William Day felt that the switch to sprint distances was ill-advised and claimed that Virago only ran in the race because Padwick overruled her trainer's wishes.
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Hollandoise was foaled in 1775 at the farm of her breeder, Thomas Stapleton, at Carleton near Snaith, Yorkshire. She was sired by the Thoroughbred foundation stallion Matchem, the principal progenitor of the Godolphin Arabian sire line and a sire known for "gameness and soundness." Virago was a daughter of the Panton Grey Arabian, an imported stallion owned by the jockey Thomas Panton that stood at Newmarket. Virago was a successful racehorse in the 1760s that won races over long distances, including multiple King's Plates, before she was retired to Stapleton and Gascoigne's stud.
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Barbara Comyns dreamt the idea for The Vet's Daughter whilst on honeymoon in a Welsh cottage lent to her and her new husband by the Soviet agent Kim Philby in 1945.Comyns, Barbara, Introduction to The Vet's Daughter (Virago 1981) The novel was not to be completed for some years and was first published by Heinemann in 1959. In 1978 the novel was used as the basis for the musical The Clapham Wonder, directed by Sandy Wilson. It was republished by Virago in 1981 and has been reprinted several times since then.
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The Yamaha Virago was Yamaha's first V-twin cruiser motorcycle, and one of the earliest mass-produced motorcycles with a mono-shock rear suspension. Originally sold with a ' engine in 1981, Yamaha soon added ' and ' versions. The bike was redesigned in 1984, switching from a rear mono-shock to a dual- shock design, and adding a tear-drop shaped gas tank. That year, Harley- Davidson, fearful of the inroads in the US market made by the Virago and other new Japanese cruiser-style motorcycles, pushed for a tariff on imported bikes over 700 cc.
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Richard AO. International trafficking in women to the United States: a contemporary manifestation of slavery and organized crime. Washington, DC, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1999.Brown L. Sex slaves: the trafficking of women in Asia. London, Virago Press, 2001.
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Spicer was a founder member and executive of Virago Press. She was Chair of the National Lottery Commission and has been chair of the Friendly Almshouses, Brixton. She was a lay member of the Judicial Appointments Commission from 2006 until 2012.
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The Big Red Adventure follows the protagonists of Nippon Safes Inc.—Doug, Donna and Dino—as they find themselves in post-Soviet Russia. The villainous Doctor Virago hopes to revive Vladimir Lenin to help him revert Russia from capitalism to communism.
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After the February Revolution, Larisa began to write for Maxim Gorky's paper Novaya Zhizn (New Life).Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.41 She also took part in the Provisional Government's spelling reform programme, teaching at workers' and sailors' clubs in Petrograd.Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.42 A week after the Bolshevik Revolution, Reisner helped the newly appointed People's Commissar Anatoly Lunacharsky to issue an appeal to Petrograd's artists and cultural workers to assemble at an evening meeting in the Smolny Institute, where the Bolshevism had their headquarters, to show support for the regime.
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In May 1886 The Sporting Times carried out a poll of one hundred racing experts to create a ranking of the best British racehorses of the 19th century. Despite having been retired more than thirty years previously, Virago was ranked in the top ten by thirty-six of the contributors, placing her seventh among all horses and making her the highest- rated filly or mare. In a related poll, the electors were asked to choose the single greatest horse they had ever seen. In this poll, Virago finished fifth behind Gladiateur, Isonomy, West Australian, and St. Simon.
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Virago subsequently participated in the Battle of the Malacca Strait with Saumarez, , and Vigilant which culminated in the sinking of the Japanese heavy cruiser in the early morning of 16 May 1945. This was a textbook destroyer night action, and was the last naval gun battle of the Second World War. Later in the afternoon of 16 May, Virago was ordered to refuel from the carrier HMS . As the two ships closed, they were suddenly bombed by Japanese aircraft in a surprise attack and splinters from a near miss killed five of Virago's crew (Hunter was unscathed).
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Women for Refugee Women subsequently worked in partnership with other organisations to campaign for the end to the detention of children for immigration purposes in the UK, a policy which the government announced it would end in 2010. Women for Refugee Women currently supports refugee women throughout the UK and campaigns for an end to the detention of women who seek asylum. She is the author of The New Feminism, which was an influential feminist book published by Virago in 1998. Her book Living Dolls, also published by Virago, looks at the resurgence of sexism in contemporary culture.
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In spring 1854 Virago was matched against the five-year-old Little Harry (winner of the Ascot Stakes) in a two and a quarter mile private trial race and won easily, receiving only ten pounds (the modern weight-for-age scale suggests that a three-year-old filly should have been receiving approximately thirty-nine pounds from a five-year-old horse at this time of year). Virago began her public three-year-old season at the Epsom Spring meeting on 6 April. The highlights of the meeting were two valuable all-aged handicap races run on the same afternoon: the Great Metropolitan Handicap over two and a quarter miles, and the one and a quarter mile City and Suburban Handicap. Virago, weighted according to her moderate two-year-old form, carried 88 pounds to victory in the City and Suburban, winning by three lengths from twenty opponents, at odds of 7/4.
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The other teacher is Alwynne Durand, an attractive nineteen-year- old woman without any formal trainingShe "has not been to college." (Regiment, p.272). All following page references are to the Virago edition. who lives with Elsbeth Loveday, her unmarried aunt and guardian.
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Sisters By a River; Our Spoons Came from Woolworths; The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns – review. The Guardian. Accessed March 2015.Comyns, Barbara, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (Virago) The book is substantially autobiographical, with only a small number of purely imaginary scenes.
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Elaine Showalter comments that "the film brilliantly portrays vampirism as a metaphor for the kind of mythic male bonding that resists growing up, commitment, especially marriage."Showalter, Elaine. Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle. Virago Press, 1995, p. 183.
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Oxford University Press, 2006. 87-117. These French psychoanalysts are mainly post- Lacanian. Other feminist psychoanalysts and feminist theorists whose contributions have enriched the field through an engagement with psychoanalysis are Jessica Benjamin,Jessica Benjamin, The Bonds of Love. London: Virago, 1990.
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In 2015, Ursula Doyle (formerly Associate Publisher of Virago) announced a new imprint, Fleet. Fleet's launch titles in 2016 include Charlotte Rogan's Now and Again, Melissa Fleming's A Hope More Powerful than the Sea and the paperback edition of Virginia Baily's Early One Morning.
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Bangor Daily News. April 2-3, 1983. Yamaha replaced the 750 cc engine with a 699 cc version to avoid the tariff, while the 920 cc engine grew to 1000 cc, and later 1100 cc. In the late 1980s a 250 cc Virago was added.
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A Spare Rib Books imprint (soon to be renamed Virago Press) was founded in 1973 by Carmen Callil whose own company had assisted on publicity for the magazine's launch. Rowe and Boycott became directors of the new company, but both resigned the following year.
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Figes was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in September 2016 which had metatastacised. She wrote about her terminal illness in On Smaller Dogs and Larger Life Questions which was published by Virago in 2018. Figes died at home in London on 7 December 2019.
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Virago was founded in 1973 by Carmen Callil, primarily to publish books by women writers. It was originally known as Spare Rib Books, sharing a name with the most famous magazine of the British women's liberation movement or second wave feminism. (The first issue of Spare Rib magazine, whose founders included Rosie Boycott and Marsha Rowe, was published in June 1972.) From the start, Virago published two sorts of books: original works, and out- of-print books by neglected female writers. The latter were reissued under the "Modern Classics" insignia, which launched in 1978 with Frost in May, a novel by the British author Antonia White originally published in 1933.
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Interest in Mrs Oliphant's work declined in the 20th century. In the mid-1980s, a small-scale revival was led by the publishers Alan SuttonThe Curate in Charge (1875), reissued in 1985. . and Virago Press, centred on the Carlingford series and some similarities of subject-matter with the work of Anthony Trollope.See, for example, the blurb and introduction (p. xiv) to the 1987 Virago paperback edition of The Perpetual Curate. . Penguin Books in 1999 published an edition of Miss Marjoribanks (1866).. Hester (1873) was reissued in 2003 by Oxford World's Classics.. In 2007–2009, the Gloucester publisher Dodo Press reprinted half a dozen of Oliphant's works.
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Terence De Vere White, Introduction to 'The Enchanted April', Virago: 1991 It is also, probably, the most widely read of all her work, having been a Book-of-the-Month club choice in America upon publication. Her 1940 novel Mr. Skeffington, was made into an Academy Award-nominated feature film by Warner Bros. in 1944, starring Bette Davis and Claude Rains, and a 60-minute "Lux Radio Theater" broadcast radio adaptation of the movie on 1 October 1945. Since 1983, the British publisher, Virago, has been reprinting her work with new introductions by modern writers, some of which try to claim her as a feminist.
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Unfortunately, Poorna's husband Venu (Ramji) and in-laws misinterpret and chuck her. Moreover, futile brothers and virago sisters-in-law hinder her stay. Hence, a rift arises and the family splits into two. Chandraiah has to quit the house but unable to take the separation of Gopi.
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After suffering heavy casualties in a ground attack, the Allies withdrew, although President and Virago managed to capture and burn the Russian transport Sitka, of 10 guns, and take the small schooner Avatska, laden with stores. The British and French then left the area on 7 September.
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The Handicap attracted some top-class racehorses in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century. Several British Classic race winners such as Virago, (1,000 Guineas), Reve d'Or (Oaks), Sefton (Derby), Bend Or (Derby), Robert the Devil (St. Leger) and Black Jester (St. Leger) won the race.
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She has written screenplays for Working Title and Ridley Scott. She also wrote a history of Chanel 4’s films and filmmakers; contributed to anthologies including Corfu, the Garden Isle ; and ‘Virago at 40’. Rothchild's first novel The Improbability of Love was published in May 2015.London: Bloomsbury.
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63 In Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (1819), Dame Van Winkle is described as a "termagant wife". "Virago", "fishwife" and "shrew" are near synonyms for "termagant" in this sense. In season 2 of Westworld, Major Craddock calls Dolores a termagant. The term is still sometimes used of men.
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A contemporary review: . Retrieved 4 September 2010. Equally celebrated was Ordinary Families (1933), the story of a young girl growing up with her family in Pin Mill, Suffolk. Both titles were repeatedly reprinted into the 1980s in the Virago paperback series, as was her first novel, Cullum, in 1989.
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Cambiaso had captured two merchant vessels: the barque Florida of New Orleans and the brig Eliza Cornish of Liverpool. The officers of the Virago came on shore, visited the barracks, and the Florida, and then left the harbour without having their suspicions excited. When Virago arrived Cambiaso had considered trying to capture her, but was deterred because of "the order and discipline on board, the well manned guns, the well drilled marines", and "of the capability of even the smallest midshipman to take command of the crew in case of the absence of the superior officers". Early in January 1852, intelligence of the mutiny was transmitted to the Chilean government at Valparaíso.
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It was first published in 1922; The Life and Death of Harriett Frean is the only May Sinclair novel currently in print. It was republished by Virago in 1980 (), by Penguin Books in 1986 and has been reprinted many times. It was also adapted into a BBC television show in 1986.
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When Merry made a complaint about protocol to James Madison, Madison increased the offence by referring to it as "a matter of very little moment". Jefferson's hostility extended to Mrs. Merry, whom he called a "virago", though Aaron Burr greatly admired her. From then on Merry found himself disgusted by America.
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Padwick employed the trainer John Barham Day from 1845 to 1855, when he was sacked after a scandal involving the Two Thousand Guineas. From 1849 Padwick used "Mr. Howard" as his nom de course. In 1854 he won £80,000 on his horse Virago, losing the sum in stock market speculation.
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Varalakshmi) is a virago she pesters her mother-in- law. Besides, in the city, Shankar turns as a spoiled brat with the association of a dancer Chanchala (Shanta). Learning it, Ramu lands where he is badly humiliated by Shankar. Distressed Ramu returns when Lakshmi pulls his authority and dominates him.
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In 1997, she published a memoir of her marriage to Mailer titled The Last Party, which recounted the violence and its aftermath. This incident has been a focal point for feminist critics of Mailer, who point to themes of sexual violence in his work.Millet, Kate. Sexual Politics Virago, 1991. pp.
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Gynocriticism helped reclaim from obscurity a vast body of early female writings, often published in Virago,Patricia Waugh, Literary Theory and Criticism (2006) p. 328 as well as producing such feminist classics as The Madwoman in the Attic.J. Childers ed., The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (1995) p.
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Like is the debut novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published in 1997 in the UK by Virago and in the following year in the US by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, it draws much from Ali Smith's own life growing up in Inverness and then moving to Cambridge as a student.
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Alyson Books specializes in LGBT authors and has a number of lesbian titles. Smaller publishers of exclusively lesbian fiction include Bedazzled Ink, Bywater Books, Intaglio Publications, Sapphire Books Publishing, Supposed Crimes, Wicked Publishing, and Ylva Publishing. Some women's presses also produce lesbian fiction, such as Firebrand Books and Virago Press.
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Their debut opera, The Lion-Faced Man, appeared at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival in August 2015, including a libretto by Hel Gurney and sung by Alison Wells. Their first book, Trans Like Me: A Journey For All Of Us is scheduled to be published by Virago Press in May 2017.
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King was known in the area as the "Little Princess". Adkins' husband, King, died in 1739, allegedly of complications due to his alcoholism. After her husband's death King continued to run the coffee house by herself. Her tolerant attitude frequently gave way to rages and she earned a new nickname, "The Virago".
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In 1969, Jonathan Cape joined with Chatto & Windus and later Bodley Head and Virago Books to act as the CBVC Group. Maschler and Greene were the two biggest shareholders and decided to sell the group to Random House. After the sale Greene resigned, working part-time as a literary agent with Ed Victor.
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These stories often had a romanticised historical or Gypsy setting, based on her own research into Romany culture (she believed one of her paternal great-grandmothers to have been a Gypsy).Richard Dalby, (editor) The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century: Volume Two.Virago, London, 1991. 1-85381-454-7 (p.318).
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Nearly 40 years on from its beginnings around Carmen Callil’s kitchen table in 1973, Virago has become one of the most successful British publishing imprints and the outstanding international publisher of books by women. Virginia Woolf's well known cri de coeur from A Room of One's Own, 'if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly as we think...' was truly realised in the 1970s. The rise of the Women's Liberation Movement was causing seismic shifts in the march of the world's events; women's creativity and political consciousness was soon to change the face of publishing and literature. Virago owes its inspiration to these times: ` An exciting new imprint for both sexes in a changing world’.
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Houston Stewart Channel is a strait in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada. It separates Moresby Island and Kunghit Island. Houston Stewart Channel was given its name by James Charles Prevost in 1853, in honour of William Houston Stewart, his predecessor aboard 'HMS Virago'. Maritime fur trader George Dixon called it Ibberston Sound in 1787.
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According to writer Vera Brittain, he died suddenly in the arms of her friend, the novelist Winifred Holtby, then aged 19 and working as a nursing assistant at a fashionable London nursing home where Tree was recuperating from surgery to repair a broken leg.Brittain, Vera. Testament of Friendship (1940), p. 60 in Virago paperback edition.
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Elizabeth and Her German Garden introduced by Elizabeth Jane Howard; Virago Modern Classics In spring and summer 1905, the English writer E.M. Forster lived at the von Arnim family estate, working as a tutor to the von Arnim children.Sully, R. (2012) British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism & Ambivalence, 1860-1914, p.120. New York: Springer.
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The Virago line was born in 1981 with the XV750. In 1982, the larger 920 was introduced alongside the 750, with several more deluxe features. The 920 was redesigned in 1984 and engine size increased to resulting in the renamed XV1000. In 1986, engine size was again increased to , resulting in the renamed XV1100.
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Although she was picked up quickly by a literary agency, the agent spent almost a year trying to sell the book to a mainstream publisher. By the time Tipping the Velvet was accepted by Virago Press—one of the ten that had previously passed on the project—Waters had already begun work on her second novel.
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First edition (publ. Virago Press) The Door is a book of poetry by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 2007. The poems of The Door demonstrate self-awareness on the part of the author. They confront themes of advancing age and encroaching death (Atwood was 68 in 2007), as well as authorial fame and the drive to produce writing.
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With her writing partner Philippa Waller, Frances-White contributed two episodes of Young Dracula in 2014. She has co- written two books: The Improv Handbook with Tom Salinsky and Off the Mic with Marsha Shandur, both published by Bloomsbury. She writes for Standard Issue Magazine. In 2018, Virago published The Guilty Feminist, a spin-off from her podcast.
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Duterte is known for being an avid fan of big bikes, but detests luxury cars. He once owned a second-hand Harley-Davidson and a Yamaha Virago. He was once a habitual smoker, but he eventually quit after a doctor's suggestion due to health concerns. Duterte is an avid reader of Robert Ludlum and Sidney Sheldon novels.
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In the late 19th century, first British, then other Northern European aristocratic tourists began to visit Portofino, which they reached by horse and cart from Santa Margherita Ligure. Aubrey Herbert and Elizabeth von Arnim were amongst the more famous English people to make the area fashionable.De Vere White, Terrence. Introduction to The Enchanted April, Virago: 1991. .
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There was renewed interest in her work when Virago began to reprint some of her novels in the 1980s, based on a recommendation from Greene to Carmen Callil. In the 1980s, Comyns published three more novels: The Juniper Tree, Mr. Fox (an old manuscript based on her relationship with Arthur Price and associated experiences), and The House of Dolls.
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Cavaso del Tomba is a comune with about 3000 inhabitants in the province of Treviso, Veneto, north-eastern Italy. The municipality of Cavaso is spread over the southern flank of the buttress that extends from Monte Grappa towards the Piave River. It includes various villages, along its main road: Obledo, Caniezza, Paveion, Pieve, Vettorazzi, Granigo and Virago.
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Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith (née Charteris; 27 September 1887 – 31 March 1960) was an English writer and socialite, known for her ghost stories and diaries.Richard Dalby, The Virago Book of Ghost Stories.Virago, London, , 1987 (p. 236). She also wrote novels and edited a number of anthologies, as well as writing for children and on the British Royal family.
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Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil, (born 1938) is an Australian publisher, writer and critic who has spent most of her career in the United Kingdom. She founded Virago Press in 1973.Brockes, Emma, "The fearful fighter", The Guardian, 25 August 2007. She is a recipient of the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 2017.
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Her first novel was published in March 2009 by Virago Press. All the Nice Girls drew on her experiences in war-time Merseyside to tell the story of a school "adopting" a ship. In 2017 a play first written by Bakewell in 1978 in response to Betrayal, entitled Keeping in Touch, was premiered on BBC Radio 4.
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She has been a governor of Parliament Hill Field School, on the board of the New Statesman and the committee of the Royal Literary Fund. She has lived in Egypt, Lebanon and the United States. Owen is the editor of Fathers: Reflections by Daughters (Virago, 1983) and Whose Cities (with Mark Fisher), published by Penguin in 1991.
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Naden Harbour is a harbour on the north coast of Graham Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. The locality of Naden Harbour, British Columbia is located on its western shore. Cape Naden is the point on the west side of the entrance to Virago Sound, which is at the entrance to Naden Harbour.
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Victoria Glendinning comments, in her introduction to the novel: "Sebastian is the boy-heir that Vita would like to have been... Viola is very like the girl that Vita actually was."The Edwardians, Introduction p. xi, Virago Modern Classics, 1983. American playwright Ken Ludwig wrote a play inspired by the details of Twelfth Night, called Leading Ladies.
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One of the fiercest critics of Hogarth's work was the critic and writer Horace Walpole. Walpole, who had admired the "Correggio", compared Hogarth's portrayal of Sigismunda to that of a "maudlin fallen virago",Timbs, p.62Anonymous, p.406 and saw in it: Chairing the Member replaced Sigismunda after only ten days John Wilkes dismissed it as "not human".
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Paul Berry in the foreword to Testament of Experience, 1980 Virago edition. Around this time the BBC interviewed her; when asked of her memories of Roland Leighton, she replied "who is Roland"? Brittain never fully got over the death in June 1918 of her beloved brother, Edward. She died in Wimbledon on 29 March 1970, aged 76.
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Dadzie was born in London to an English mother and Ghanaian father. She is a founder member of Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent. The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain was published in 1985 by Virago Press. The book had been commissioned by the publisher five years before in 1980.
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Artistic Director Shawna Virago explained that neither government nor foundations would support transgender arts, stating "There was absolutely no funding available for transgender arts events" and that SFTFF "had to survive and thrive on our transgender smarts, sweat, and love from the community." The festival was held biennially from its founding in 1997 until 2005, when audience demand led Virago and the advisory board to transform the festival into an annual event. Before 2016, the festival's screenings and programs were held in venues including The Roxie Theater, The Bearded Lady Cafe, The Lexington Club, Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, and CounterPulse. SFTFF returned to its original home -- the Roxie Theater -- for its 2013 festival, and has remained at the Roxie Theater ever since.
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HMS Virago was laid down as Yard number 609 at Laird's shipyard at Birkenhead on 13 June 1895, the fourth "Thirty-Knotter" destroyer ordered from Lairds for the Royal Navy as part of the 1894–95 shipbuilding programme. The ship was launched on 19 November 1895, undergoing sea trials on 27 November 1896, where she reached a speed of over the measured mile and an average speed of over a three-hour run.. Virago was completed in June 1897. Armament was a QF 12 pounder 12 cwt ( calibre), with a secondary armament of five 6-pounder guns, and two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. As with other early Royal Navy destroyers, the detailed design was left to the builder, with the Admiralty laying down only broad requirements.
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Samuel Wesley the elder, a contemporary of Defoe's, described his teacher "as universal in his learning", although he also attacked the academy on uncertain grounds for promoting king-killing doctrines. James Burgh, author of The Dignity of Human Nature and Thoughts on Education, opened his dissenting academy there in 1750.Gordon, Lyndall (2005), Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft. Virago Press.
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An account of the company and Fell's life at this period appears in Michèle Roberts's memoir Paper Houses.Michèle Roberts, Paper Houses: A Memoir of the 70s and Beyond, 2007, Virago, ; paperback 2008, .Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy: The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 361. She worked at the underground newspaper Ink, and contributed to Spare Rib.
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The novel was first published in the UK in 1993 by Little, Brown Book Group and Virago Press. It was published in the US the following year, by Seal Press, who issued a new edition in 1998. The novel was translated into Hebrew by Dana G. Peleg, as "הדייקית והדיבוק" (Hadaikit ve Hadibuk) in 2000, published by Shufra Publishing, Tel Aviv.
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Her latest collection is indwelling. She has also published Berthing: A Poetry Workbook (NEC/Virago, 1991), and was co-editor of The New British Poetry (Paladin, 1988). From 2001 to 2003 she held a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at Newcastle and Leeds Universities. She won the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award in 2005 and received a Cholmondeley Award in 2010.
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All Passion Spent echoes some of Sackville-West's primary concerns:Glendinning, V. Introduction to All Passion Spent. Virago 1983. people's place in society, society's constrictions on people, and women's control of their lives. Sackville-West, voiced by Lady Slane, disavowed feminism and like her long- time lover and friend Virginia Woolf, considered the issues raised were issues of human rights rather than women's rights.
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The mutineers and their prisoners sailed from Punta Arenas on the Florida and the Eliza Cornish. Virago searched for, and recaptured the Eliza Cornish at sea and rescued some colonists who had been abandoned on Wood's Bay. Meanwhile, Cambiaso and his men on board the Florida had been overpowered by some of her original crew.Chapter VIII, Brown, Insurrection at Magellan.
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She was born to a violent father,Cathy Porter, Fathers and Daughters: Russian Women in Revolution (Virago 1976). and turned to her studies for solace. Her family were landowners in Tver province, so she decided to study agronomy so that she could farm the land, rather than live off peasant labour. Bardina went to Moscow and became friends with Olga Liubatovich.
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The film begins in a village where a bourgeois Raghavaiah (Chittoor V. Nagaiah) lives with his virago wife Kantamma (Suryakantam), two daughters Susheela (Krishna Kumari) & Rani (Jayalalitha). Since Susheela is the step-daughter of Kantamma, she scorns on her. Meanwhile, Mohan (N. T. Rama Rao) a young charm visits to fix up his alliance with Rani but he shines to Susheela.
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Loitering with Intent is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark. Published in 1981 by The Bodley Head, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize that year. It contains many autobiographical references to Spark's early career and was reprinted in 2001 by New Directions, in the US, and in 2007 by Virago Press in the UK (with a foreword by Mark Lawson).
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Union Street is the first novel by English author Pat Barker, published by Virago Press in 1982. It describes the lives of seven working class women living on Union Street and how they respond to the changes brought about by deindustrialisation. It is set in northeastern England during the 1970s. The 1990 movie Stanley & Iris is a loose adaptation of the novel.
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Howard, p. 300. In the 1970s, Cape published popular authors in many genres, including the novelists J. G. Ballard and Salman Rushdie, and the children's writer Roald Dahl. A defensive merger with Chatto and Windus was carried out in 1969;"The Times Diary", The Times, 15 May 1969, p. 8. and The Bodley Head and Virago Press were added to the group.
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This is how she got the nickname Britain's best recruiting sergeant – young men were sometimes asked to join the army on stage during her show. She also performed in hospitals and sold war bonds. Her husband was knighted in 1919 for his own services to the war effort, and Tilley became Lady de Frece.Vesta Tilley, Sarah Maitland (1986 Virago) p.
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After it is destroyed in Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, it is replaced with the Raven's Claw. The Rogue Shadow is the ship used by Starkiller and Juno Eclipse in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. The Virago is Xizor's ship in Shadows of the Empire. Its clamshell design, styled after a stealth fighter, is inspired by pulley castings.
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In 1853 both islands were named after sailors on HMS Virago. Snake Island is a located just outside the mouth of the bay. The "Departure Bay" neighbourhood surrounds most of the bay; though sometimes the northeastern shoreline may be referred to as "Hammond Bay." The BC Ferry terminal (itself referred to simply as "Departure Bay") is on the southern shore of the bay.
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Women in Publishing was started in 1979. In December that year an open meeting was held in an upstairs room at the Globe pub, opposite Baker Street tube station. Attended by some 100 women, the meeting was chaired by Anne McDermid, with the discussion being led by Liz Calder and Ursula Owen (co-founder with Carmen Callil of the publishing company Virago).
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Jagapathi Rayalu, the zamindar of the village Rangapuram, has two sons – Ramu and Krishna. Before dying, he entrusts their responsibility to his sisters Chukamma (a virago) and Sheshamma (a guiltless). Here, the avaricious Chukkamma ploys with her distant relative Bhushanam to eliminate the heirs for the property. Fortunately, the boys are rescued by Chukkamma's wise husband Venkataramaiah and they land at an orphanage.
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Waterstone was a chairman or board member of English International (1987–92), the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1990–97), Portman House Trust (1994–96), the Academy of Ancient Music (1990–95), Virago Press (1993–95), Jazz FM (1991–1993), the London International Festival of Theatre (1990–92), the Elgar Foundation (1992–98), the British Library (1995–97), King's College London Library (2000–02), Yale University Press (1992–2013), Chelsea Stores (1996–2007), FutureStart (1992–2009), Virago Press (1995–1996), Hill Samuel UK Emerging Companies Investment Trust plc (1996–2000) and Downing Classic VCT (1998–2003). He has sat on the Booker Prize Management Committee, and acted as the Chairman of Judges for the Prince's Youth Business Trust Awards. He served as a member of the visiting committee of Cambridge University Library (2007–2013). He chaired Shelter's 25th Anniversary Appeal.
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Described by the Liber Eliensis as a "pretiosa virago" (precious lady- warrior)Fairweather, Liber Eliensis, p. 376. she succeeded as abbess when Æthelthryth died, probably of plague, in 679.Williams et al, Dark Age Britain, p. 30. Seaxburh's previous political experience in East Anglia and Kent would have been useful in preparing her for the role of abbess at the double monastery at Ely.
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The turn out was so poor that "there was enough room to sit on one sofa" - but it included three major figures in Russian culture, the poets Alexander Blok and Vladimir Mayakovsky and the theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold, who spent hours discussing how to organise the intelligensia. Later, she worked at the Smolny Institute with Lunacharsky, cataloguing art treasures.Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.
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45-46Radek, K. (1977) "Larissa Reisner" In Reissner, L. Hamburg At the Barricades and Other Writings of Weimar Germany London: Pluto pg.189-190 She became a member of the Bolshevik Party in 1918, marrying Fyodor Raskolnikov in the summer of that year.Porter, C. (1988) Larissa Reisner, London: Virago pg.53 During the Civil War, she was a soldier and a political commissar of the Red Army.
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Rajeswari Devi (Pandari Bai) proprietor of an estate is surrounded by many relatives to usurp her wealth. Chitrangi Devi (Y. Vijaya) the second wife of Rajeswari Devi's younger son, a virago claims authority on the estate with her heinous Bhanu Prakash (Chalapati Rao) who suffers and treats workers as slaves. Eventually, Chitrangi Devi spoils her stepdaughter Durga (Malasri) by rearing her as an ultramodern stubborn.
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In May 1886 The Sporting Times carried out a poll of one hundred racing experts to create a ranking of the best British racehorses of the 19th century. Achievement was ranked in the top ten by nine of the contributors, placing her twenty-seventh among all horses and making her the sixth highest-rated filly or mare behind Virago, Plaisanterie, Crucifix, Blink Bonny and Wheel of Fortune.
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The XV920R had a unique enclosed chain final drive, a large, headlamp, a high-capacity sculpted fuel tank, and rear-set controls and footpegs. Like the Virago, it had a stamped-steel backbone frame, also serving as part of the air-induction system. It had a mono-shock rear suspension, with (air) preload and damper adjustments. The front suspension had air preload adjustment only.
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C. Rand, Boston, Second Edition, 1854. This city was "a penitentiary colony for relapsing criminals and relegated military".Punta Arenas, History and Legends When Virago arrived, the port was in the hands of a group of mutinous prisoners "headed by one Cambiaso, second lieutenant of the troops stationed there; who... had committed some offence and been imprisoned a short time before."Chapter II, Brown, Insurrection at Magellan.
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Atria and English Virago Archived copy at WebCite (17 January 2010). She has been praised by dignitaries like Laura Bush and the French foreign minister. In 2009 in the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Mukhtaran was the subject of chapter 4, "Rule by Rape". The book is an exposé about women and gender apartheid.
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Findlater wrote novels and poetry both alone and together with her sister Jane. The sisters made two literary tours of the United States one in 1905. They collaborated with American writer Kate Douglas Wiggin, and were acquainted with Henry James, Ellen Terry, and Mary Chomondeley. Their best-known and most widely admired collaboration is the novel Crossriggs (1908), re-issued in 1986 by Virago Press.
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The Vulgate Bible, translated by Jerome and others in the 4th century C.E., was an early Latin translation of the Hebrew Bible Old Testament. In Genesis 2:23, Jerome uses the words Vir for man and Virago for "woman" attempting to reproduce a pun on "male" and "female" (ish and ishah) that existed in the Hebrew text.Saint Jerome, Robert Hayward. Saint Jerome's Hebrew questions on Genesis.
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Rowton was retired from racing and stood as a stallion in Britain for three years. In 1834, the Chifney brothers' financial problems led them to sell him for 1000 guineas to Jem Bland. Rowton sired no major winners but his daughters produced the 1000 Guineas winners Virago and The Flea. In 1835 he was sold to Merritt & Co and exported to stand at Hicksford in Virginia.
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As such she was an heiress to the Matson fortune.Harriet Swift, The Virago Woman's Travel Guide to San Francisco, Book Passage Press, 1994 Her mother was Lillie Berenice (Low) Matson (1864–1930). She had two older brothers, Walter Joseph (1877–1926) and Theodore William Matson (1883–1936). The family wintered in a rented house in San Francisco and summered in a house near Mills College.
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First hardback edition (publ. Virago Press) Blow Your House Down is the second novel by Pat Barker. Published in 1984, the novel follows the lives of a number of prostitutes working in a northern English city at a time when a serial killer of prostitutes is haunting the area. The main focus is on two prostitute characters, Brenda and Jean, and their respective histories.
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In the Middle Ages, Termagant or Tervagant was the name given to a god which European Christians believed Muslims worshipped.Definition from Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. The word is also used in modern English to mean a violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman; a virago, shrew, vixen. In the past, the word could be applied to any person or thing personified, not just a woman.
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Collings was devoted to his wife Sophie (née Moffatt), with whom he had two daughters, Sibyl and Doris. As he had no sons, his elder daughter Sibyl was his heiress presumptive. He raised her as a boy and, despite her lameness caused by unequal leg length, taught her to shoot, sail, and climb cliffs. Nevertheless, whenever they came into conflict, he called her a "damned virago".
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His first ("Resoled in Saratoga, riveting in a wide wale suit, I use law, Ed. I, wan, ignite virago, tar a snide loser.") is remarkable for its length, but took only a matter of hours to compose. In 1996, Saltveit founded The Palindromist, a biennial magazine devoted to palindromes and closely related forms of wordplay. On March 16, 2012, Saltveit won the first-ever World Palindrome Championship.
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"Walsh, Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst (1885–1961)" (2004) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, United Kingdom. Foreword (1981) My career goes bung : purporting to be the autobiography of Sybilla Penelope Melvyn Miles Franklin by Miles Frankin Virago Modern Classics, London. "Portrait of the artist as a young girl" on the Australian writer Amy Witting, Quadrant, Sydney, 1990, Vol. 34 No. 263, pp.
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They encourage others to join the campaign and to 'raise our voices on behalf of all world's girls.' The herstory movement has spawned women-centered presses, such as Virago Press in 1973, which publishes fiction and non-fiction by noted women authors like Janet Frame and Sarah Dunant. This movement has led to an increase in activity in other female- centric disciplines such as femistry and galgebra.
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The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF) is the world's oldest transgender film festival. Originally named Tranny Fest, the Festival was co- founded by Christopher Lee and Alex Austin in 1997, with Elise Hurwitz as technical director. Lee and Austin produced the Festival until 2002; in 2003, Shawna Virago took over as Artistic Director. Originally, the festival was organized largely by volunteers and operated without any government or private funding.
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This name was used on the charts of Dixon and Meares. The American traders called the inlet Hancock's River as shown in Ingraham's chart of 1792 after the American brig Hancock. In 1853 H.N. Knox of the Royal Navy, mate on HMS Virago did a sketch survey of the harbour when the name Masset was adopted by the British. A survey was made in 1907 by Captain Learmouth on HMS Egeria.
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While in office between 1976 and 1979, Williams advocated the comprehensive school system and the abolition of grammar schools. As her daughter Rebecca approached secondary school age, Williams moved into the catchment area of the state-subsidised Godolphin and Latymer School (which later became private in preference to becoming a comprehensive), allowing her daughter to gain a place there.Shirley Williams Climbing The Bookshelves: Autobiography of Shirley Williams, Virago, 2009, p. 206.
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In November, Virago Press published her essay in the collection I Call Myself a Feminist. In July 2016, Hagen appeared in the Channel 4 miniseries Outsiders. They took their second solo show, Shimmer Shatter to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. They attempted to make her next tour welcoming for fans with anxiety issues by allowing them to contact them before shows to let her know their needs.
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One subplot deals with the death of Mrs. Proudie, the virago wife of the Bishop of Barchester, and his subsequent grief and collapse. Mrs. Proudie, upon her arrival in Barchester in Barchester Towers, had increased the tribulations of the gentle Mr. Harding, title character of The Warden; he dies of a peaceful old age, mourned by his family and the old men he loved and looked after as Warden.
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Their final collaborative novel was Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. It was published in 1945 as Tomorrow and Tomorrow. It is considered to be one of Australia's major early science fiction novels and was highly regarded by Australia's only Nobel Prize winner for literature, Patrick White. However, it was censored for political reasons at the time and was not published in its entirety until Virago Press reissued it in 1983.
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High School was announced on December 11, 2018, nine months ahead of its publication. The book was published on September 24, 2019 by Simon & Schuster Canada in Canada, by MCD, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, in the United States and Virago Press (Hachette UK) in the United Kingdom. The book debuted at number fifteen on The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction best-sellers list on October 13, 2019.
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Lombard costume. Francesco Porzio, Monumento alla difesa di Casale, 1897 A virago is a woman who demonstrates exemplary and heroic qualities. The word comes from the Latin word virāgō (genitive virāginis) meaning variously, vigorous, heroic maiden, a female warrior, heroine..' from vir meaning 'man' (cf. virile and virtue) to which the suffix -āgō is added, a suffix that creates a new noun of the third declension with feminine grammatical gender.
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Zhang Jie (, born 1937) is a Chinese novelist and short-story writer. She is one of China's first contributors to feminist fiction. Her novel Leaden Wings was translated into German in 1982 and published in England in 1987 by Virago Press. She was awarded the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1985 for Leaden Wings and in 2005 for Without a Word, making her the first writer to receive the award twice.
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Her books share similarities with contemporary writers such as Barbara Pym, Marghanita Laski and H. E. Bates. Her descriptions of farming practices and economics, and village vernacular, are noted as particularly detailed and accurate for this genre (Cavalliero, 1977). Joanna Godden and Susan Spray were reissued in the 1980s by feminist publishing house Virago. Since then her books are out of print, but are readily available on the used book market.
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Her third husband was the painter Robbie Duff Scott (born 1959), with whom she moved to Umbria, describing her life there in A Valley in Italy (1995). Her work includes further novels and memoirs (including Memory Maps in 2003), short-story collections and poetry. Otto (Virago), a fictionalised biography,Marianne Brace, "Lisa St Aubin de Terán: Stronger than fiction", The Independent, 18 February 2005. was published in 2006.
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The film begins in a village, where a wealthy couple, Ganapathi (Chadalavada) & Rangamma (Kannamba) has a son Krishna (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) and a daughter Swarajyam (Suryakala). Here, virago Rangamma maintains the household authority and scorns on the step-son Krishna. Krishna falls for his childhood Radha (Anjali Devi), daughter of school teacher Ramaiah (Perumallu). Learning it, Ramaiah moves with the wedding proposal when Rangamma desires Rs 10,000 of dowry.
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The film begins on Gopi an unemployed guy consisting unmethodical family where everyone is flawed, avaricious parents Subba Rao (Suthi Velu) & Durgamma (Y. Vijaya), vain brother Vijay (Ahuthi Prasad), termagant sister Kanchana (Deepika), and simpleton Bhaja Govindam (Mallikarjuna Rao). The exclusive that showers endearment on Gopi is his sister-in-law Sharada (Vaishnavi) whom he looks upon as his mother. Since Durgamma & Kanchana are virago they torture Sharada physically and verbally.
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Hill and her husband Christopher co-authored a paper entitled Catherine Macaulay and the Seventeenth Century in 1967 about the early female historian, Catherine Macaulay. Hill published in 1992 a full book on Macaulay, entitled The Republican Virago. Hill's other works included Eighteenth Century Women: an Anthology (1984); Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth- Century England (1989); Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century (1996), and Women Alone: Spinsters in England, 1660-1850 (2001).
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The London Peace Society (also known as the Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace) was formed in 1816 to promote permanent and universal peace by the philanthropist William Allen. In the 1840s, British women formed "Olive Leaf Circles", groups of around 15 to 20 women, to discuss and promote pacifist ideas.The Long Road to Greenham: Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820, by Jill Liddington. London, Virago, 1989 (pp. 14-5).
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Even if this was a rumour, it shows the extent she was willing to get the Word of God out. Others perceptions of her were very negative, like Edumund Becke calling her, "the devil's eldest doughter" and "the wayward Virago," calling up negative stereotypes of womanhood to blacken her reputation.Fissell, "Politics of Reproduction", 62. She had interesting views about the incarnation and her Anabaptist beliefs were denied by both Protestants and Catholics.
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Between 1946 and 1949 Venus was part of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla, based in the Mediterranean. This included work as part of the Royal Navy patrols preventing illegal Jewish immigration into Mandatory Palestine. In June 1946 she intercepted Josiah Wedgewood. In the same year Venus and Virago participated in the rescue of crew from the British Tanker , which caught fire, exploded and sank at Haifa, Palestine, with the loss of up to 25 lives.
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Maureen Duffy draws on a tough childhood in That's How It Was, her most autobiographical novel. Her working-class roots, experience of "class and cultural division"Duffy (1983), "Preface" to Virago edition of That's How It Was, p. x. and close relationship with her mother are key influences on her work. Her family came from Stratford, East London, where Duffy went to live at the age of 14, when her mother died.
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He went on to head Jonathan Cape, post the death of its founder. It was here that one of his first assignments had him work with Mary Hemingway on papers that her husband Ernest Hemingway had left behind. This would subsequently be published as A Moveable Feast (1964). As head of Jonathan Cape, he was heavily involved in the creation of the Chatto, Virago, Bodley Head and Cape Group (CVBC), which later dissolved.
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Her first book Incantations and Other Stories was published in England by Virago in 1991 and in the US by Rutgers University Press in 1992. The book was reissued in India by Penguin in 2006. The stories in it are set in the early eighties in India. One of her short stories titled "Sharmaji" was included in Mirrorwork: Fifty Years of Indian Writing, a collection edited by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West.
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The Newsboy Legion manage to convince Auron not to give Westfield the disc, and he subsequently leaves Earth. In Adventures of Superman #509 (February 1994), Auron meets Superman in space near a Virago Cruiser to team up against Massacre. At first believing Superman is an imposter, the two fight until Superman convinces Auron he is the genuine article. During their fight with Massacre Auron is hit by Massacre's energy blast and killed.
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Virago is a 1999 EP collection by the Norwegian gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy. The disc contains tracks left off the album Aégis of 1998, plus tracks from Velvet Darkness They Fear and the band's first album, Theatre of Tragedy. Released on 26 May 1999, this EP is officially known as Massacre's Classix Shape Edition Vol. 1 being the first one in a series of ten Shaped Compact Discs by Massacre Records.
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Right now, things get worse when Subbu rents a portion of his house to a person Pataudi (Rajendra Prasad). Later Subbu realizes his mistake after seeing Pataudi's family, which is the most dysfunctional that one can ever imagine. Pataudi's family contains wife Kantham (Jhansi) a hardcore virago, two more strong imps, and a sister- in-law Sujatha (Kanchi Kaul) a teenage girl. Sujatha is infatuated towards Subbu and stalks him day & night.
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A BBC television series, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (starring Diana Rigg) was produced in 1999; however, the characteristic cackle and crocodilian looks were absent, and the plots and characters were changed. Several of her books were published in large print editions in the mid 1980s. By the mid 1990s, only one of her novels was in regular print: a Virago Press paperback edition of The Rising of the Moon (1945) – which is still in print.
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She notes that although she had to make decisions as to where different scenes belonged and whether to include some drafts, she did not add to or rewrite any parts of the novel. The unfinished novel was published in 1974. The book has been published by different publishing houses including Faber and Faber (1974), Delacorte Press (1974), Dell Publishing (1979), Virago Press Ltd (1980), Delta (1988), Bantam Doubleday Dell, and University of Nebraska Press (2004).
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Virago Press began to publish its large list of 19th and early-20th-century novels in 1975, and became one of the first commercial presses to join in the project of reclamation. In the 1980s Pandora Press, responsible for publishing Spender's study, issued a companion line of 18th-century novels by written by women.Sandra M. Gilbert, "Paperbacks: From Our Mothers' Libraries: women who created the novel." New York Times, May 4, 1986.
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Although her desired ride was a Triumph Bonneville, she heeded the advice of family to begin with a starter bike as new riders inevitably drop (tip over and damage) their first bike. She purchased a 1982 Virago for $1200 and learned her riding and mechanical skills on it. She later purchased the Triumph, which she named Amelia. Prior to the US tour, Lynn had ridden as a passenger in Chile and Argentina.
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His sister, Marie Devlin, is a school teacher and writer, publishing Over Nine Waves, a collection of traditional Irish myths and legends, in 1994. She was married to the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, from 1965 until the poet's death in 2013. One of his six sisters is Polly Devlin, the writer and broadcaster, who has been awarded the OBE for services to literature. Her first book All Of Us There is now a Virago Modern Classic.
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Reviewers did not share the author's opinion of her work, and most notices were unenthusiastic. There was general consensus that, at best, the novel was pedestrian and, at worst, it was plain silly. Du Maurier's biographer, Margaret Forster, called it in 1993 "the poorest novel she ever wrote". Ella Westland, in her introduction to the 2004 Virago reprint, called the tone of the book "mocking" – shifting from the funny and farcical to the bleak and bizarre.
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The Flea's half- sister Monstrosity produced the 1844 2000 Guineas winner The Ugly Buck. Puce's dam, Pucelle, was a daughter of the 1814 Oaks winner Medora and is a tail- female ancestor to St. Marguerite (Thoroughbred family 4-n). Puce's full sister Virginia produced the multiple stakes winner Virago and is an ancestor of the 1000 Guineas and Oaks winner Thebais. The majority of the Bentinck Stud, including Puce, was sold in August 1846 to Lord Mostyn.
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With Scharnhorst illuminated by starshells "hanging over her like a chandelier", Duke of York and Jamaica resumed fire, at a range of only . At 19:15, Belfast joined in from the north. The British vessels subjected the German ship to a deluge of shells, and the cruisers Jamaica and Belfast fired their remaining torpedoes at the slowing target. Scharnhorsts end came when the British destroyers Opportune, Virago, Musketeer and Matchless fired a further 19 torpedoes at her.
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Wolf's book Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love was published in 2019, a work based on the 2015 D.Phil. thesis she had completed under the supervision of Trinity College, Oxford literary scholar Dr. Stefano-Maria Evangelista. In the book, she studies the repression of homosexuality in relation to attitudes towards divorce and prostitution, and also in relation to the censorship of books. The book was published in the UK in May 2019 by Virago Press.
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Lori Baker (born 1962) is an American novelist and short story writer. She has earned degrees from Wheaton College,Publications, honors and creative works: Alumnae/i, Wheaton Quarterly, Winter 2014 Brown University"Fresh Ink", Brown Alumni Magazine, Sep./Oct. 2013 and Boston College."Reader's List ," Boston College Magazine, Spring 2013 Her books include: The Glass Ocean (Penguin Press, 2013; Virago, 2013); Crash & Tell: Stories (LSU Press, 2011); Crazy Water: Six Fictions (NYU Press, 1996); and Scraps (paradigm press, 1995).
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As editorial director and later managing director she oversaw the creation of the Virago list. She remained on Virago's board until the company was sold to Little, Brown and Company in 1996. In 1990 Owen was appointed director of the Paul Hamlyn Fund and cultural policy advisor to the Labour Party. The fund was established to promote and develop Labour's cultural policies under the Shadow Arts Minister Mark Fisher in the run-up to the 1992 general election.
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The Women's Press was "a political press" explicitly linked with the Women's Movement. Along with Virago publishers, founded by Australian Carmen Callil, The Women's Press was the largest feminist publisher in the English language during the key period of the second wave of the women's liberation movement, largely considered to have run from 1969 to the mid-1980s.Eagleton, Mary, and Emma Parker, eds, The History of British Women’s Writing 1970–Present, Vol. 10, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
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Pringle began her career in publishing at the British magazine Art Monthly before joining the women's publisher Virago in 1978. She worked on Virago's Modern Classics series and in 1984 she became their Editorial Director until 1991 when she moved to Hamish Hamilton with the same job title. Between 1994 and 1999 she was a literary agent for writers that included Amanda Foreman, Maggie O'Farrell and Ali Smith. Pringle joined Bloomsbury in 1999, as head of the adult publishing division.
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In May 1886 The Sporting Times carried out a poll of one hundred racing experts to create a ranking of the best British racehorses of the 19th century. Wheel of Fortune was ranked in the top ten by eleven of the contributors, placing her twenty-sixth among all horses and making her the fifth highest-rated filly or mare behind Virago, Plaisanterie, Crucifix and Blink Bonny. Fred Archer was reported to have considered her the best filly or mare he ever rode.
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Adams wrote books for students, including co-authoring The Gender Trap - published in three volumes in the mid-70s - which was aimed at schoolgirls and explained how sexism limited female opportunities. Adams also co-edited the Women in History series for Cambridge University Press,] which brought the women's movement into the classroom. She captured the lives of medieval women, as well as life in a 19th-century silk factory. She was on the original editorial advisory board of the feminist publishing company, Virago.
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She was cremated at Glyntaff, Pontypridd, on 9 January. Her mother died later in the same year. Although "Mutiny" and "The Problem of Life" were published in Life and Letters To-day in 1934, Edward's works were largely forgotten. However, Virago Press reissued Rhapsody and Winter Sonata in 1986, and Winter Sonata was reissued by Honno Welsh Women's Classics in 2011, with a new introduction by Clare Flay, since when there has been a revival of interest in her life and works.
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Volage was also hit and briefly disabled by shore fire while Rapid was being towed to safety by Saumarez; three of Volages ratings were killed and another eight wounded. All three ships of Force 70 reached Akyab under their own power. On 25 March, Force 70, now consisting of Saumarez, Virago, Vigilant and Volage sailed on an anti-shipping sweep between the Andamans and the Malayan coast (Operation On Board). Next day, Force 70 located and attacked an enemy convoyCombinedfleet.
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Her novels are All Grown Up (1998), Take Me Home (1999) and Dear Goddess (2000). She has also written for Picadilly Press the teen novels French for Kissing (2005), Best of Friends (2006), and Mad, Rich and Famous (2006). Other writings by her appear in Mothers by Daughters, Sons and Mothers (both published by Virago), Girls Just Want To Have Fun: the Cosmopolitan book of short stories, Best of Friendswhich she wrote and edited and POT 05 - Anthology of Poetry (ed. Michael Horovitz).
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Catherine Roxburgh Carswell (née Macfarlane; 27 March 1879 – 18 February 1946) was a Scottish author, biographer and journalist, now known as one of the few women to take part in the Scottish Renaissance. Her biography of the Scottish poet Robert Burns aroused controversy, but two earlier novels of hers, set in Edwardian Glasgow, were little noticed until their republication by the feminist publishing house Virago in 1987. Her work is now seen as integral to Scottish women's writing of the early 20th century.
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Five men were scalded, two of whom died, but as with the 8in shell hits, this shell failed to explode at such close range and was later thrown overboard. At 01:15, Haguro was hit by three torpedoes from Saumarez and Verulam. As Saumarez limped northward from the immediate battle area, a violent explosion created confusion. Power thought it was Kamikaze blowing up and men on Virago and Vigilant thought it was Saumarez, but it was probably two torpedoes colliding.
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Mathilda d'Orozco described this view in a contemporary letter where she defended the queen against it: "She is pushing the King, it is said, the poor thing, to make him greet people, when they are out. She is guarding him, not as an angel of mercy, not as a slave of duty, a martyr - no, as a virago, concerned only for her reign. This is so hard, so ungrateful...."Robert Braun (1950). Silvertronen, En bok om drottning Josefine av Sverige-Norge.
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Widely regarded as India's answer to Virago Press, Kali for Women published some pathbreaking books such as the Hindi reference book Shareer ki Jankari ('About the Body'). Shareer ki Jankari was written by 75 village women and sold by them at a special price in the villages. Shareer ki Jankari was extremely frank about sex and women's bodies including issues such as menstrual taboos, shocking some commentators. Till then academic presses had largely ignored the markets for cheap, mass literature.
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Treasure is an animated television series set in England that aired on ABC Kids (Australia) and on YTV in Canada. It is about the life of a fourteen- year-old girl and her friends. The series was based on the popular newspaper column of the same name by Michele Hanson which became a book, Treasure: The Trials of a Teenage Terror (Virago Press, 2001, ), published under the pseudonym Gina Davidson. Treasure chronicles the life of Michele Hanson's daughter, Amy Hanson.
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When Logue died in 1826, Hare may have married Margaret. Based on contemporary accounts, Brian Bailey in his history of the murders describes Hare as "illiterate and uncouth—a lean, quarrelsome, violent and amoral character with the scars from old wounds about his head and brow". Bailey describes Margaret, who was also an Irish immigrant, as a "hard-featured and debauched virago". In 1827 Burke and McDougal went to Penicuik in Midlothian to work on the harvest, where they met Hare.
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Her first collection, Word Rhythms From The Life Of A Woman (1986), was published in 1986 by Karia Press. In 1988 Karia also published her second collection, Before They Can Speak Of Flowers: Word Rhythms, which had a foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and an introduction by Benjamin Zephaniah."Before They Can Speak Of Flowers" at WorldCat. Her novel, The Last Room, was published by Virago Press in 1991, winning the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award for best first novel published in Britain.
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The novel, which explores schizophrenia, received considerable critical acclaim, being awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, being adapted for the stage by Richard Eyre, and was later broadcast by the BBC on both radio and television. She continued to explore similar themes throughout the 1960s and 1970s via novels such as The Cold Country, Strawberry Boy and A Field of Scarlet Poppies. In the 1980s two further novels The Upstairs People and Judasland were released by the Virago Press.
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Prior to the Taliban taking power in Afghanistan male doctors had been allowed to treat women in hospitals, but the decree that no male doctor should be allowed to touch the body of a woman under the pretext of consultation was soon introduced.Latifa My forbidden face: Growing up under the Taliban. UK: Virago Press pp29-107. With fewer female health professionals in employment, the distances many women had to travel for attention increased while the provision of ante-natal clinics declined.
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Dulle Griet (anglicized as Dull Gret), also known as Mad Meg, is a figure of Flemish folklore who is the subject of a 1563 oil-on-panel by Flemish renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The painting depicts a virago, Dulle Griet, who leads an army of women to pillage Hell,Dulle Griet is also the subject of a 1640s painting by Flemish painter David Teniers the Younger. and is currently held and exhibited at the Museum Mayer van den Bergh in Antwerp.
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'Introduction', No Fond Return of Love (London: Virago, 2009), p.xii.. Pym shared the same profession as Viola and Dulcie, having worked at the International African Institute in London since 1946. The publishers felt the title was too negative, and so Pym chose the final title from a poem by eighteenth-century poet Frances Greville (which she altered from "no kind return of love") Holt 1990, p. 183. The novel was first published in the United States by E. P. Dutton in 1982.
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In 2002, she won a Pearson award and was writer-in-residence at London's Bush Theatre. Her stage plays are published by Oberon. Her work for BBC Radio Four includes The Sound of Silence (short-listed for the 2003 Imison Award, creating and co-writing The Magpie Stories;, adapting Hanan al-Shaykh's novel Only in London and co- adapting Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet (with John Harvey). She has also compiled and edited an anthology of short stories, 12 Days, published by Virago Press.
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Virago (1851-1869) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a career which lasted from November 1853 to July 1855 she ran sixteen times and won eleven races. All but one of her victories came as a three-year-old in 1854, a year in which she dominated British racing, winning major events at distances ranging from one mile to three miles. Her wins included the classic 1000 Guineas at Newmarket, the Nassau Stakes and the Yorkshire Oaks against her own age and sex.
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The term shrew is still used to describe the stock character in fiction and folk storytelling. None of these terms are usually applied to males in Modern English. This stereotype or cliché was common in early- to mid-20th-century films, and retains some present-day currency, often shifted somewhat toward the virtues of the stock female character of the heroic virago. Folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand collected over 400 literary and oral version of shrew stories in 30 cultural groups in Europe in the middle 20th century.
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At the age of 13, Osborne opened a newspaper to discover that Idina Sackville was her mother's grandmother. Osborne used family letters and diaries including those of Idina's first husband (Osborne's great-grandfather) and the shared son of him and Idina (Osborne's grandfather). She abandoned him for the first 19 years of his life. The Bolter was published in the U.K. by Virago Press dated 2008 and in the U.S. by Knopf in June 2009 and in trade paperback by Vintage Books in May 2010.
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In a foreword written in 1979 for the Virago edition of the novel, Atwood described it as a protofeminist rather than feminist work. Atwood explores gender stereotypes through characters who strictly adhere to them (such as Peter or Lucy) and those who defy their constraints (such as Ainsley or Duncan). The narrative point of view shifts from first to third person, accentuating Marian's slow detachment from reality. At the conclusion, first person narration returns, consistent with the character's willingness to take control of her life again.
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The winner of the first contest was Rosa Rankin-Gee, whose entry, The Last Kings of Sark, was subsequently published by Virago. The winner of the second prize was C. E. Smith; his entry, Body Electric, was co- published by the bookstore and The White Review. Partnering with Bob's Bake Shop, Shakespeare and Company opened a café in 2015, located next door to the shop in what had been, since 1981, an abandoned garage. The café serves primarily vegetarian food, with vegan and gluten-free options.
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Boycott worked for a year or so with Frendz radical magazineibiblio: Friends magazine: Rosie Boycott and in 1972, she co-founded the feminist magazine Spare Rib with Marsha Rowe. Later, both women became directors of Virago Press, a publishing concern committed to women's writing, with Carmen Callil, who had founded the company in 1973. From 1992 to 1996, she was editor of the UK edition of men's magazine Esquire. She headed both The Independent and its sister publication the Independent on Sunday (1996–98).
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Duffy's first novel, That's How It Was (1962), written at the suggestion of a publisher, won great acclaim.Well reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement, Observer, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Daily Herald, etc. While many reviewers focused on its vivid depiction of a working-class childhood, Duffy also emphasised that her goal was to show the influences which could form a writer, and those which could encourage a preference for same-sex love.Maureen Duffy (1983 Virago ed.), That's How It Was, Preface, p. vi.
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Duffy's first openly gay novel was The Microcosm (1966), set in and around the famous lesbian Gateways Club in London (renamed the House of Shades). It was the first novel to depict a wide range of contrasting gay women of different ages, classes and ethnicities – and historical periods – to make a point that "there are dozens of ways of being queer."The Microcosm (1989 Virago ed.), p. 273. Widely reviewed, it sold well and inspired lesbian readers, including U. A. Fanthorpe and Mary McIntosh.
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Barnard's most successful fictional work written in her own right is The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories (1943). It was reissued by Virago in 1985, with the inclusion of three additional stories not previously published in book form. The title story, The Persimmon Tree, is one of Australia's most anthologised stories.Vickery and Dever (2007) The stories were published soon after the end of her relationship with Davison, and were seen by Barnard as some "compensation for the hurt that was integral to their production".
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After she retired from Sir Neville Pearson's service following a nervous breakdown she gave poetry readings and broadcasts on the BBC that gained her new friends and readers among a younger generation. Sylvia Plath became a fan of her poetry and sent Smith a letter in 1962, describing herself as "a desperate Smith-addict." Plath expressed interest in meeting in person but committed suicide soon after sending the letter.(Barbera, Jack & McBrien, William, editors 1982) Me Again, Uncollected Writings of Stevie Smith, Virago Press Limited, p. 6.
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Venus hit Haguro with one torpedo at 01:25, and Virago stopped Haguro with two more torpedo hits two minutes later. The Japanese cruiser finally sank at 02:06 after receiving another torpedo from Vigilant, two more from Venus, and nearly an hour of gunfire from the 26th Flotilla. Saumarezs main aerial and a funnel top had been shot away, and an shell nicked the forecastle. Two men were killed and three burned in the boiler room when a shell severed the main steam pipe.
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It can be read on page 145 of the Powys journal (volume viii). She died in Spain in 1968 of cancer, and is buried in the English Cemetery, Malaga. One Way of Love, accepted by Gollancz in 1931, but suppressed at the last minute because it was considered too sexually explicit, was published by Virago Press in 1987. Death's Other Kingdom was re-released as Malaga Burning in 1998 by Pythia Press, and is now available on e-readers and in paperback under its original title.
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In 1961, Chatto and Windus published Sunlight on a broken Column. For a long time this was thought to be her only published written work, until Distant Traveller, a collection, new & selected fiction was published in 2012, to honour her coming centenary year, which included excerpts of her unfinished novel, No New Lands, No New Seas, set in England. Many of her stories have now been included in other anthologies. In 1998 Sunlight on a broken Column and Phoenix Fled were re-launched as Virago Modern Classics.
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Larkin knew Patricia Avis Strang Murphy (1928–1977) during the 1950s, and wrote her his first love letters. At the time, she was married to Colin Strang, a friend of Larkin's and a lecturer in the Philosophy department at Queen's University, Belfast, where Larkin was under-librarian. She became pregnant by Larkin, but miscarried. As Patricia Avis, she is the author of Playing the Harlot (1996, Virago), a roman à clef; the character of Rollo Jute is thought to have been inspired by Larkin.
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The Literary Consultancy (TLC) is a UK-based editorial consultancy service that was founded in 1996, becoming the first service of its kind to offer "professional, in-depth editorial advice and assessment to anyone writing in the English language, anywhere in the world".About TLC, TLC website. Operating under the strapline "Literary Values in a Digital Age", TLC is based at the Free Word Centre in Farringdon Road, central London. Its founding Director was Rebecca Swift, who set up the organisation with Hannah Griffiths after they worked together at Virago Press.
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Seven of her paintings were adapted as dust jackets for editions in the Virago Modern Classics series. A large mural by Balmer is situated in Cumbernauld Town Hall. Balmer had a solo exhibition at the Aberdeen Art Gallery during 1995 and 1996. She was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Society of Scottish Artists and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and also with the Glasgow Group and regularly at the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh, where she had a solo show in 1970.
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She has been featured in such anthologies as Daughters of AfricaMargaret Busby (ed.), Daughters of Africa, London: Jonathan Cape, 1992, pp. 909–14. and Her True-True Name. She co-edited with Briar Wood Leave to Stay: Stories of Exile and Belonging (Virago, 1996), a collection of fiction and poetry by writers from India, the Caribbean, China, South Africa, the USSR, Canada, Australia and Pakistan, including Sujata Bhatt, Fred D'Aguiar, Michael Donaghy, Jane Duran, Michael Hoffman, Aamer Hussein, Mimi Khalvati, Adam Lively, Sindiwe Magona, Bharati Mukherjee, Hanan al-Shaykh, Janice Shinebourne and Zinovy Zinik.
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A British Medical Journal editorial concluded that a clash of personalities had led to the charges against Dr Savage. > "Mrs Savage's strongly held and voiced opinions on women's rights to a say > in their method of delivery and in their rights to abortion made her a > public and at times controversial figure; rumours of other sources of > conflict with her colleagues have ranged from style of dress to private > practice." Savage herself wrote about her experiences.Savage W, Savage Enquiry, Virago, 1986 Her later book, Birth and Power, revisits the issues which her suspension raised.
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John Barham Day, who was ironically known as "Honest John", trained the filly at Padwick's stable at Findon, West Sussex. According to his son William, later a successful trainer in his own right, Day believed that he had acquired "the finest yearling in the world". Virago was sired by the 1846 Epsom Derby winner Pyrrhus The First. Her dam, Virginia, became an influential broodmare, with her direct descendants including the 1000 Guineas and Epsom Oaks winner Thebais, the Preakness Stakes winner War Cloud, and the Italian champion Ribot.
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The views expressed in Three Guineas have been described as feminist, pacifist, anti-fascist, and anti-imperialist.Jill Liddington. The Long Road to Greenham : Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820, London, Virago, 1989 (pp. 14–15). Feminist historian Jill Liddington has praised Three Guineas as "an eloquent and impish attack on patriarchal structures", notes how the book puts forward the argument that "men's power under patriarchy dovetails with militarism", and claims "Three Guineas offers an important bridge between the earlier feminist flowering and the later 1980s wave of a women's peace movement".
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The buy-out was financed by Rothschild Ventures and Robert Gavron. Random House UK kept a 10 per cent stake in the company and continued to handle sales and distribution. In 1993 Rothschild Ventures sold its shares to the directors and Gavron, who thus became the largest single shareholder. In 1996 the directors sold the company to Little, Brown and Lennie Goodings remained as Virago’s Publisher. Virago has flourished under the Little, Brown umbrella to become, today, a brand name and in 2010, won The Bookseller’s Imprint of the Year Award.
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"The Chilean authorities despatched two Chilean men-of-war [Indefatigable and Meteoro], and some Chilean troops under Don Santiago Jorge Bynon. The troops were put on board the Chilean men-of-war; the latter on board the Virago, on the same service. The English steamer proceeded immediately to the Straits, and it was to be hoped that her officers would learn a lesson from experience, and prove themselves more sharp sighted than they had done a month before, in their former visit to the colony."Chapter IX, Brown, Insurrection at Magellan.
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The narrative, which is set in a postwar English seaside town, is told from the points of view of several characters. The story involves an abortive love affair between the husband of Beth, a novelist, and her best friend and next door neighbour, as well as the comings and goings of Bertram, a retired naval officer who has come to town intending to take up painting. The novel was favourably reviewed when first published, and has been reissued in the 2010s in the Virago Modern Classics and NYRB Classics series.
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Based on the Yamaha Virago 535 engine, the XVS650 (named V Star in USA & Australia) cylinders were bored an additional 5 mm to 81 mm and stroked 4 mm more to 63 mm, to net a displacement of 649 cc. The XVS650 comes in two models: the Custom with a lower seat height and slightly less weight, and the Classic with a higher seat height of . The Custom is approximately and the Classic approximately 15 kg heavier . The Yamaha XVS650 is sold in the U.S. as the entry-level versions of the V-Star line.
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However, Richardson changed publishers and Dent & Cresset Press published a new Collected Edition of Pilgrimage in 1938. This was republished by Virago Press "in the late 1970s, in its admirable but temporary repopularisation of Richardson".Rebecca Bowler, "Dorothy M. Richardson: the forgotten revolutionary" In 1976 in America, a four volume Popular Library (New York) edition appeared. Now scholars are once again reclaiming her work and the Arts and Humanities Research Council in England is supporting the Dorothy Richardson Scholarly Editions Project, with the aim of publishing a collected edition of Richardson's works and letters.
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Inspired by the 'Storyville' Rothchild published a biography of her great aunt, The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild, which was published by Virago in 2012. It was described as "Riveting, touching and insightful" by The Daily Telegraph. A few years earlier, a radio documentary profile of Nica, The Jazz Baroness, was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 12 February 2008. Her documentaries and shorts have aired on the BBC, HBO, PBS and others and been screened and won awards at Telluride, Tribecca, London, Sheffield film festivals.
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The sect evolved to run a Combination Store in the village, the building for which houses villages shops today. Lawrence Durrell, author of The Alexandria Quartet, lived here from 1933 to 1934, in a cottage called Chestnut Mead.Amateurs in Eden, Joanna Hodgkin, Virago 2012 Durrell, along with his first wife Nancy and another young couple, George and Pam Wilkinson, left Fitzrovia to live in the English countryside. It was here that Durrell, then in his early twenties, wrote what became his first published novel, Pied Piper of Lovers.
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Goodings received the Bookseller's Industry Award: Editor and Imprint of the Year in 2010 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Queen's University in Canada in 2004 and A Lifetime's Achievement at WOW (Women of the World Festival) in 2018. A trustee of English PEN, she is now a board member of the charity Poet in the City. She has written a children's book When I Grow Up. Her memoir A Bite of the Apple: Behind the Scenes at Virago Press was published in February 2020 by Oxford University Press.
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"Ink" at rock'sbackpages library. At Ink, Callil met Marsha Rowe and Rosie Boycott, who soon afterwards founded the feminist magazine Spare Rib in June 1972. At the same time, 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.Sullivan, Jane, "Turning Pages: In celebration of feminist publishing", The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 November 2016.
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The English children's writer Jacqueline Wilson, commenting on the 2014 reissue of the novel, recalled: "Lovejoy, Tip and Sparkey were so real to me that they have stayed alive in my head for more than 50 years.... An Episode of Sparrows was the first book that made me cry when I was ten. I cried all over again at this recent reading of the story — and I closed the book with the same sense of total satisfaction."From the Foreword of a Virago reissue, quoted in The Spectator, 12 April 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
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Shortly before her death, when returning from her exile in London, Michel had been dubbed "the angel of petrol", "the virago of the rabble" and "queen of the scum" by the conservative French press. In turn, Charles Ferdinand Gambon compared her to Jeanne d'Arc in reference to her role in the Paris Commune. This imagery was further propagandized by Edmond Lepelletier in 1911. The image of Michel as vierge rouge (red virgin) came to be used by conservative and liberal historians alike when recounting the story of the Paris Commune.
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It was turned into a highly acclaimed film for British television. Originally published by Constable, it was reissued in 1982 by Virago Press, and reprinted in 1991 at the time its Channel 4 television adaptation of the same name came out (directed by Horace Ové with Casting Director John Hubbard"John Hubbard", IMDb. and starring Elizabeth Hurley, Madge Sinclair, Diana Quick, Kate Buffery, British painter and grand- niece of Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Lindy Allfrey"Royal News at Repeating Islands (The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge)", Repeating Islands, 24 March 2015. and Frances Barber.
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A common style of the 1620s and 1630s was the virago sleeve, a full, slashed sleeve gathered into two puffs by a ribbon or other trim above the elbow. In France and England, lightweight bright or pastel-coloured satins replaced dark, heavy fabrics. As in other periods, painters tended to avoid the difficulty of painting striped fabrics; it is clear from inventories that these were common.Marieke de Winkel in:Rudi Ekkart and Quentin Buvelot (eds), Dutch Portraits, The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals, Mauritshuis/National Gallery/Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, p.
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One of Us was published in Norway in November 2013 by Kagge (532pp). The subtitle -- en fortelling om Norge (A Tale of Norway) -- was expanded for the English market when Sarah Death translated Seierstad for English publication in 2015. The Hachette Book Group published One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway in the UK under its Virago Imprint in March 2015. Publishing rights for the Canadian and American markets were purchased -- followed by an April 2015 release -- by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG).
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Chamberlain is Emeritus Professor of History, at Oxford Brookes University. Her book Fenwomen was the first book published by Virago Press in 1975, and pioneered the use of oral history in the study of women’s history. It was also the inspiration for the Joint Stock production of Caryl Churchill’s award-winning play Fen (1983).Jennifer Dunning, "'Fen,' Unusual On-the-spot Creation", The New York Times, 21 June 1983. Fenwomen was followed by two further books on women’s history: Old Wives’ Tales: Their History, Remedies and Spells and Growing Up In Lambeth.
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Their memoir, High School, was published on September 24, 2019 by MCD Books, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, alongside Simon & Schuster Canada and Virago Press in the United Kingdom. In April 2020, the duo created a live "show" that they named Where Does the Good Grow, to entertain their fans during the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 12, 2020, they announced that they were releasing merchandise designed by EE Storey for Where Does the Good Grow. The show was held every Thursday at 3PM PST on their Instagram account, until the series finale on 23rd July 2020.
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Commensurate with this growth in scholarly interest, various presses began the task of reissuing long-out-of-print texts. Virago Press began to publish its large list of 19th and early-20th-century novels in 1975 and became one of the first commercial presses to join in the project of reclamation. In the 1980s Pandora Press, responsible for publishing Spender's study, issued a companion line of 18th-century novels written by women. More recently, Broadview Press continues to issue 18th- and 19th-century novels, many hitherto out of print, and the University of Kentucky has a series of republications of early women's novels.
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The song being based on the life of Mary Frith, a woman who obtained a reputation as a virago in the early 17th century. "My band Animal Hands have just recorded at Birdland Studios with Lindsay Gravina and once again it was an incredible experience. Lindsay encourages us to push boundaries that we otherwise wouldn't have and as a result we leave knowing we have given it our very best". -Whalebone, interview Beat Magazine. 'Roaring Girle' debuted on Australian radio station and the band were special guests on PBS “Go for Broke” hosted by Ken Knievel.
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The monologues Desdemona - if you had only spoken. Eleven uncensored speeches of eleven incensed women (in German, Hamburg, 1983, translated by Eleanor Bron, Virago Press, London, 1992) achieved not only wide circulation and translations into many languages, but also established her as a playwright, as they are among the most performed plays at the time. In tones from serious to cheerful, the work deals with historical and fictional female figures of Western cultural history, from Clytemnestra to Christiane von Goethe to Gudrun Ensslin. In addition to novels and stories, Brückner also published autobiographical works, plays and children's books.
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She turned out again immediately to win the "Great Met" by a length under 84 pounds. On 25 May Virago won the Great Northern Handicap over two miles at York, winning easily by a length from sixteen opponents at odds of 4/6 to take a first prize of more than £2,000. The following day, at the same meeting, she won the Flying Dutchman Handicap over one and a half miles at odds of 1/4. Her performances made such an impression that only two fillies appeared to oppose her in the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse a week later.
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Daphne Phelps (23 June 191130 November 2005) was a British writer who spent most of her life in Taormina, Sicily at Casa Cuseni, an elegant villa designed and built in 1905 by her uncle, the artist Robert Hawthorn Kitson. There she entertained numerous writer and artist friends including Bertrand Russell, Henry Faulkner, Roald Dahl and Tennessee Williams. She was the author of A House in Sicily (1999), published by Virago. Phelps attended St Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk, and subsequently trained in psychiatric social work at St Anne's College, Oxford, and at the London School of Economics.
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Beauman's Persephone Books is a publishing house focusing primarily on female authors. Founded in 1998, it is run from a shop in a Grade II listed building on Lamb's Conduit Street, in London's Bloomsbury. According to The Guardian, Beauman founded Persephone Books to publish 'forgotten' novels by women, many of which she had written about in, A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39, originally published by Virago in 1983 and reissued in 2008 by Persephone Books. The books all come in a uniform grey cover, which Beauman sees as 'a guarantee of a good read'.
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His sister Lucy is much less enthusiastic about her brother's thirst for revenge, because she is secretly in love with Arthur. Meanwell's children reverse the normal and expected social roles of gender: Arthur is mild-tempered and returns Lucy's affection, but his sister Dionisia is a "virago" who longs for her own revenge upon the Rashlys. Theophilus is friends with a trio of young gallants, all of whom have suffered financially by mortgaging property to the old usurer Mandeville Quicksands. One of the trio in Nathaniel Banelass, a ruthless womaniser (as his name indicates, he is the "bane" of "lasses").
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Virago Press began to publish its large list of 19th and early-20th-century novels in 1975 and became one of the first commercial presses to join in the project of reclamation. In the 1980s, Pandora Press, responsible for publishing Spender's study, issued a companion line of 18th- century novels written by women. More recently, Broadview Press continues to issue 18th- and 19th-century novels, many hitherto out of print, and the University of Kentucky has a series of republications of early women's novels. Particular works of literature have come to be known as key feminist texts.
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Also the XV1100 and the XV750 (1989 and up) do not present the starter system flaws found in the earlier Viragos. Motorcyclist Magazine suggested welding the ring gear to its backing plate to solve the problem. Other solutions commonly used are the use of shims, which was Yamaha's proposed solution, then also the use of a newly designed idler gear. None of these solutions are considered or proved to be permanent, and applying only one of them will not address other existing flaws in the system; however, great improvements have been reported by Virago owners that have applied them.
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The opportunity was taken en route to bombard targets in the Andaman Islands (Operation Stagey).The force for Operation Stagey included aircraft carriers , , cruiser , destroyers Vigilant, Virago and frigates. On 14 March, Volage, and the destroyers Saumarez and formed Force 70 for a reconnaissance of Langkawi Sound and sailed for the Malacca Straits (Operation Transport). The reconnaissance task was abandoned soon after and, instead, Force 70 patrolled for enemy shipping. The British ships bombarded the railway works at Sigli, on Sumatra, on 17 March and resuming their anti-shipping sweep, without success, off the Nicobar islands.
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Mukhtaran Bibi (, born c. 1972,Kristof, N & Wudunn, S, (2009), "Half The Sky", Virago now known as Mukhtār Mā'ī, ) is a Pakistani woman from the village of Meerwala, in the rural tehsil (county) of Jatoi of the Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan. In June 2002, Mukhtār Mā'ī was the survivor of a gang rape as a form of honour revenge, on the orders of a tribal council of the local Mastoi Baloch clan that was richer and more powerful than her Tatla clan in that region.Journey into Islam: the crisis of globalization, Akbar S. Ahmed, Brookings Institution Press, 2007, pp.
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Jane Robinson, in A Force to be reckoned with, noted that Adelaide Hoodless had already visited London and spoken about Women's Institutes, the movement she had founded after her son died from drinking contaminated milk.Robinson, Jane,"A force to be reckoned with A history of the Women's Institute", Virago Press, 2011, , pp. 17, 24-5 The first group of women met together in the Ontario town of Stoney Creek, Canada in 1897. Other WIs formed in Ontario soon after, especially as Hoodless was a good speaker and could inspire women to set up their own small WIs .
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In her history of women photographers in Britain, Val Williams recounts that "the group's nine women members began to study the use of photography within the capitalist system and to present alternatives. They played a decisive part in establishing a context within which women workers from different cultural fields could work together in pursuit of a collective political aim".Val Williams, The Other Observers: Women Photographers in Britain 1900 to the present, Williams, Val (London: Virago Press, 1986), pp. 172–173. Others associated with the group were Helen Grace, Maggie Millman, Jini Rawlings, Ruth Barrenbaum, Nanette Salomon, Arlene Strasberg and Chris Treweek.
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Medora's lasting influence on the breed however, came through her third foal Pucelle (1821, by Muley). She was the ancestor of many important winners including The Ugly Buck (2000 Guineas), The Flea (1000 Guineas), Thebais (1000 Guineas and Oaks), Virago, War Cloud, Ribot, Sagaro and most importantly St Marguerite. St Marguerite won the 1000 Guineas in 1882 and became the foundation mare of Thoroughbred family 4n. Members of this family, all of them direct female-line descendants of St Marguerite and Medora, include Seabreeze (1000 Guineas and St Leger), Rock Sand, Gallant Fox, Canonero II, Triptych, Generous and Imagine.
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Wilson, E., 'Feminist Fundamentalism: The shifting politics of sex and censorship' in Segal, L. And McIntosh, M. (1992) 'Sex Exposed:Sexuality and the Pornography Debate', Virago She was also a pro-choice campaigner. Richardson also served as an executive member of the National Council for Civil Liberties, during a time in which the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a pro-paedophile activist group, was affiliated with NCCL. Richardson wrote to PIE journal Childhood Rights, saying that she supported their campaign against corporal punishment. She co-authored the pamphlets "Keep Left" (1947) and "Keeping Left" (1950) with Dick Crossman, Michael Foot and Ian Mikardo.
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Sheila Kaye-Smith (4 February 1887 – 14 January 1956) was an English writer, known for her many novels set in the borderlands of Sussex and Kent in the English regional tradition. Her 1923 book The End of the House of Alard became a best-seller, and gave her prominence; it was followed by other successes, and her books enjoyed worldwide sales. Interest in her novel Joanna Godden (1921) was revived after it was adapted as a film titled The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947), which had a different conclusion. In the 1980s, this novel and Susan Spray were reissued by Virago press.
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In 1961, Dashwood published Provincial Daughter, a light-hearted continuation of her mother's most famous work. Stylistically similar to Diary of a Provincial Lady, it is a semi-autobiographical account of domestic life in the 1950s. In the foreword, Dashwood wrote: > It seemed natural to write it in the same idiom, but if the result seems to > any reader too imitative, or even plagiaristic, I can only ask their > forgiveness, as the original Provincial Lady would, I am sure, most warmly > have given hers. The novel was a success and was re-issued in 2002 by Virago Press.
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At some point, she and Parsons were said to have had an affair. She was also a member of the board of the company that owned Jonathan Cape from 1969, The Bodley Head from 1973 and Virago Press from 1982 (taken over by Random House in 1987). These 'golden years' of publishing, before the takeovers by conglomerates, were male dominated in terms of decision makers, and she was one of very few women - but a formidable one - to hold power in a book publishing company. She retired in 1982, succeeded at Chatto & Windus by Carmen Callil.
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According to Kaysen, because of the sheer guts it took to actually do it, Polly is highly respected for her courage, to the extent that none of the patients will ask why she did it. During her first year at the hospital, she appears calm and even cheerful: "Life was hellish, she knew that. But, her smile hinted, she'd burned all that out of her."Susana Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted (Virago Press, 2000 ed.) But one day she suddenly breaks down and begins to scream inconsolably, as if realizing for the first time her appearance and the permanency of it.
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Angel is a fictional representation of the kind of temporarily popular writer of romances such as Marie Corelli, Ouida, or Ethel M. Dell. Matthew Walther argues that "the book is not really a roman à clef so much as it is a kind of horrifying anti-memoir, Taylor’s sounding of her own experience and dredging up her worst fears as a young female writer: mawkishness, philistinism, naïveté, stupidity, solipsism." Angel was reprinted by Virago Press in 1984 with a new introduction by Paul Bailey. In 2007, Angel was turned into a movie by French director François Ozon.
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The LS650 Savage was the first cruiser manufactured by Suzuki in 1986. The Kawasaki Vulcan 400 entry-level cruiser with a V-twin engine was introduced the same year as the Suzuki Savage, and the Vulcan 500 LTD with a parallel-twin engine was introduced in 1990. One of the few small cruiser motorcycles available with a shaft drive as an alternative to either chain or belt final drive, the Yamaha Virago 535 was introduced in 1987. Honda launched the Shadow VLX, with a 583 cc V-twin for the 1988 model year to compete with the single-cylinder Savage.
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Bloom (1999), 9Ford (1966), 122 In the twentieth century there were also many major female writers, including Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Marianne Moore. Notable female writers in France include Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras and Françoise Sagan. Much of the early period of feminist literary scholarship was given over to the rediscovery and reclamation of texts written by women. Virago Press began to publish its large list of 19th and early 20th-century novels in 1975 and became one of the first commercial presses to join in the project of reclamation.
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Duffy has written sixteen novels – nine literary novels published by Virago and Sceptre, and five crime novels in the Saz Martin series, published by Serpent's Tail. In 2018 HarperCollins Publishers released Money in the Morgue by Ngaio Marsh and Stella Duffy. The book was started by Marsh during World War II, but abandoned. Working with just the book's title, first three chapters and some notes—but no idea of the plot or motive of the villain—Duffy completed the novel, which has received widespread praise for its authenticity and seamless transition between the two authors' work.
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Browne, E. Janet (1985) "Darwin and the Face of Madness" in Bynum, W. F., Roy Porter, and Michael Shepherd (eds) The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry, Vol 1, People and Ideas, London: Tavistock, pp. 151–165.Gilman, Sander L. (1982) Seeing the Insane Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press; reprinted (1996) New York: Bison Books, pp. 179–191.Appignanesi, Lisa (2008) Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present, London: Virago Press, especially p. 110.Prodger, Phillip (2009) Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution, Oxford University Press, pp. 92–101.
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D. H. Lawrence, in the essay "A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover" (1929), cited Colonel Barker, namely that "his poor wife thought she was married normally and happily to a real husband", as an example of ignorance about sex. The story of the many lives of Barker is told in Colonel Barker's Monstrous Regiment by Rose Collis, Virago 2001. Brighton Museum and History Centre marked his life during February 2006, as part of England's LGBT month's celebrations.Culture24; LGBT History Month At Brighton Museum and History Centre "The Perfect Gentleman", one of the Queers: Eight Monologues (2017), curated by Mark Gatiss, was based on Barker.
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Random House UK kept a ten per cent stake in the company, and continued to handle sales and distribution. In 1993 Rothschild Ventures sold their shares to the directors and Gavron, who thus became the largest single shareholder. After a downturn in the market forced a reduction in activity, the board decided to sell the company to Little, Brown, of which Virago became an imprint in 1996 (with Lennie Goodings as Publisher and Sally Abbey as Senior Editor). The sale to Little Brown, a large company owned by the telecommunications giant Time Warner, was met with negative publicity and raised questions about the future of feminist publishing houses.
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Much of this early period of feminist literary scholarship was given over to the rediscovery and reclamation of texts written by women. Studies such as Dale Spender's Mothers of the Novel (1986) and Jane Spencer's The Rise of the Woman Novelist (1986) were ground-breaking in their insistence that women have always been writing. Commensurate with this growth in scholarly interest, various presses began the task of reissuing long-out- of-print texts. Virago Press began to publish its large list of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century novels in 1975 and became one of the first commercial presses to join in the project of reclamation.
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"It's part of a policeman's duty" by Vesta Tilley in 1907 "I'm the idol of the girls" by Vest Tilley in 1908 "Following a fellow with a face like me" by Vesta Tilley in 1908 Matilda Alice Powles was born at Commandery Street, Worcester on 13May 1864.Sarah Maitland (1986) Vesta Tilley p14, Virago Press, London She was the second child out of a total of thirteen and shared her first name with her mother Matilda Powles (née Broughton). Her father was Henry Powles, known as Harry Ball. He was a musician who became master of ceremonies at the Theatre Royal, Gloucester and later the St George's Hall in Nottingham.
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The Darkened Room: Women, Power and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England is a historical study into the role played by women in the Spiritualist religious movement in England during the latter part of the 19th century. It was written by the British historian Alex Owen and first published in 1989 by Virago, before being republished in 2004 by the University of Chicago Press. A work of feminist history which arose from Owen's PhD thesis undertaken at the University of Sussex, The Darkened Room looks at the role of women in the Spiritualist movement of the period, counterbalancing what Owen perceived as a former focus on the role of men.
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In 1974 she returned to Manchester and worked in the media before becoming a teacher in adult education.Liddington, J.; Norris, Jill (1978) One Hand Tied Behind Us: the rise of the women's suffrage movement, Virago Press ISBN 0-86068-08-8; p. 1 She joined the Department of External Studies at Leeds University in 1982 and became a Reader in Gender History, School of Continuing Education, until her transfer to the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, where she is currently Honorary Research Fellow. Liddington stood as a Labour Party candidate in the Sowerby Bridge ward in the Calderdale Council election, 2004 - largely to prevent more BNP councillors being elected.
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Her vision of women coming together in their own villages and working on common goals, both locally and internationally, far transcended her well- documented character faults and idiosyncrasies.Robinson, Jane,"A force to be reckoned with A history of the Women's Institute", Virago Press, 2011, , pp 29-31 She was a builder who believed in the power of women working together regardless of race, religion or nationality. She believed in women's rights to higher education, access to careers, and opportunities to express their own individuality through use of their skills and talents. She helped many women broaden their horizons without upsetting their family connections or breaking their ties.
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Robinson, Jane, "A force to be reckoned with A history of the Women's Institute", Virago Press, 2011, , pp 203-9. When Lady Denman retired in 1946 as the NFWI President, she agreed to the members' proposal to name their new building Denman College, to mark her on-going support for continuing education for all WI members who wished it. Denman College's success has, in a way, its beginning in the First Women's Institute school in 1918, designed and presented by Madge Watt. Like Denman, Madge often expressed her faith in women's abilities to learn and to use their knowledge to help themselves, their families and their communities.
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For Padwick, Day trained Virago, whom he considered the best horse he ever handled. Day deliberately prevented the filly from showing her true form in order to secure a light weight in handicap races, and then landed a huge betting coup when the filly captured the Great Metropolitan Handicap and the City and Suburban Handicap on the same day at Epsom in 1854. The relationship with Padwick ended in the following year when the owner was unhappy with the preparation given to his colt St Hubert, the beaten favourite for the 2000 Guineas. The winner of the race was trained by Day's son and Padwick suspected collusion between the family members.
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Bridget Hill, The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), p. 27. The debate over the Civil War continued into the eighteenth century and Tory defences of the History against Whig criticisms appeared in 1716 by Henry Cantrell, in 1731 by Francis Atterbury, in 1732 by William Shippen and in 1739 by John Davys.Linda Colley, In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party, 1714-60 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 86. In 1757 a former Secretary of State, Thomas Robinson, attacked the Tories, claiming that "the creed of those gentlemen was in the preface to Clarendon's History" i.e.
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Val Williams notes that "The eclectic use of graphics, of cartooning and of advertisements began a process which took photography out of its traditional limits and re-established it as a medium of cohesive political propaganda."The Other Observers: Women Photographers in Britain 1900 to the present, Williams, Val, (London: Virago Press, 1986), p174. Both exhibitions were intended for use in community centres, schools, trades union gatherings and every sort of alternative venue. The panels appeared in town halls, health centres, at conferences, in libraries Transmitter Receiver: The Persistence of Collage, An Arts Council Collection exhibition, Caroline Douglas and Jill Constantine, Hayward Publishing (London, 2011), p. 16.
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Onomatopoeia first appears where he murders a female crimefighter named Virago, after telling her his name. The interlude in which this occurs serves as a lead-in to "The Sounds of Violence", a three-issue storyline that runs through issues #13–15 of the title, in which he is the main antagonist. No personal characteristics are revealed about Onomatopoeia aside from the fact that he is a Caucasian male, which is seen when portions of his face obscured by shadow are seen in Green Arrow #14, and when the lower half of his face is seen again in issue #15. Onomatopoeia is a serial killer who targets non-superpowered superheroes.
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Graham Island () is the largest island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands), lying off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is separated only by a narrow channel from the other principal island of the group, Moresby Island (Gwaii Haanas in the language of the Haida people). It has a population of 4,475 (2001 census), an area of , and is the 101st largest island in the world and Canada's 22nd largest island. Graham Island was named in 1853 by James Charles Prevost, commander of HMS Virago, for Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet, who was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time.
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Mary Morris (born May 14, 1947 in Chicago) is an American author and a professor at Sarah Lawrence College. Morris published her first book, a collection of short stories, entitled Vanishing Animals & Other Stories, in 1979 at the age of thirty-two and was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has gone on to publish numerous collections of short stories, novels, and travel memoirs. She has also edited with her husband, the author Larry O'Connor, an anthology of women's travel literature, entitled Maiden Voyages, subsequently published as The Virago Book of Women Travellers.
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The Breaking Point is a collection of eight short stories by Daphne du Maurier first published in 1959 by Victor Gollancz in the UK and Doubleday in the US. It has also been published under the title The Blue Lenses and Other Stories. The stories were written at a time when du Maurier herself came close to a severe nervous breakdown and reflect her own psychological stress. Du Maurier herself acknowledged she had come close to madness immediately before she wrote them; and they were part of her cure – "the means by which she wrote herself back to sanity".Introduction to Virago edition publ.
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An estimated 30,000 people have stayed at the shop. Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 2011 In 2003, Whitman founded a biennial literary festival, FestivalandCo, which has hosted such writers as Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Jeanette Winterson, Jung Chang, and Marjane Satrapi. In 2010, Shakespeare and Company launched The Paris Literary Prize for unpublished novellas, with a 10,000 euro prize donated by the de Groot Foundation. The winner of the first competition was Rosa Rankin-Gee, whose entry was subsequently published by Virago. Partnering with Bob’s Bake Shop, Sylvia Whitman and David Delannet opened a café in 2015, located next door to the shop in what had been an abandoned garage since 1981.
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In 1984, publisher Ursula Owen invited her to join the Virago Advisory Board and write an appraisal of the state of feminism, resulting in her first book, Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism. This book reached a broad audience, with its questioning of gender mythologies, whether of women's intrinsic virtues, or men's inevitable rapaciousness, which had been appearing in the work of many popular feminist writers in the 1980s. Reflecting her socialist feminist milieu, Segal argued that feminists always needed to confront the ubiquitous negation of the 'feminine', but women's battles could neither be reduced simply to battles with men, nor solved purely by revaluing the 'feminine'.
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Dorsey created "The Secret History of Love" over a two-year period, after which it toured to 20 different U.S. cities. The 75-minute show features the Sean Dorsey Dance company and transgender singer-songwriter Shawna Virago. The piece features athletic modern-dance choreography, partnering, and a musically innovative soundtrack by seven different composers. Dorsey created "The Secret History Of Love" by creating and conducting his National LGBT Elders Oral History Project, in which Dorsey recorded oral history interviews with trans and LGBTQ elders across the US. "The Secret History Of Love" reveals the underground ways that trans and LGBTQ people managed to not only survive but also thrive in decades past, despite tremendous obstacles.
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Reportedly, she had: :"good commonsense, and sound probity of life, and she assumed at once an unquestioned control over the actions of her Consort, strong man though he was. Like her sister, the Dowager Dogaressa Costanza, she was a virago, in the sense of a strong personality; and she followed in her sister's steps, ruling not alone her husband, but bending to her will all with whom she was thrown in contact."Staley, Edgcumbe: The dogaressas of Venice : The wives of the doges, London : T. W. Laurie, 1910 Following Jacopo's resignation in early 1249, she lived with him at his private residence at Sant' Agostino, in San Polo. He died on 19 July 1249.
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Then in 1978 the first of the Virago Modern Classics, Frost in May by Antonia White, was published. It launched a list dedicated to the celebration of women writers and to the rediscovery and reprinting of their works, hugely guided by the influential A Literature of Their Own by Elaine Showalter. Its aim remains to demonstrate the existence of a female literary tradition and to broaden the sometimes narrow definition of a classic. Published with new introductions by some of today’s best writers, the list encompasses such diverse writers as George Eliot, Grace Paley, Elizabeth von Arnim, Pat Barker, Edith Wharton, Mae West, Angela Carter, Willa Cather and Molly Keane. It has become one of Virago’s most famous hallmarks.
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During 1852-3 Bennett was employed in reporting on the navigation of the Rhone and Saône, and making surveys and reports on the navigation of the Magdalena River, with connecting canals, roads or railways, in New Grenada. Bennett was engaged on the International (French, American and English) Ship Canal Survey at the Darién Gap, in 1854, having charge of the English survey on the Pacific side in the absence of Mr. Forde, M.I.C.E., on which occasion Bennett received the thanks of the American Government for having, in conjunction with Lieut. Forsythe and a party from H.M.S. Virago, relieved Lieut. Isaac Strain, United States navy, and his missing exploring party, at no small personal risk.
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It was also longlisted for the Booker Prize, serialised on British radio and is now a Virago Modern Classic. "It is difficult to discuss the book without talking in terms of its uniqueness – and without resorting to superlatives...a tremendously rich, subtle and nuanced read", said The Scotsman, while The Times called him a "A gloriously capable and confident writer". His follow-up, the fable My Once Upon A Time, set in a near-future London-like western city, fused noir with Yoruba folklore to striking effect, and solidified his reputation as a groundbreaker. The book uses the song "Heaven and Hell" by Chef Raekwon of the Wu-Tang Clan as a thread running through the novel.
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After undergoing a sequence of line up changes Whalebone's song "Roaring Girl" was released at Yah Yahs on the 13 September, 'Roaring Girle' is based on the life of Mary Frith, a woman who obtained a reputation as a Virago in the early 17th century. Whalebone was asked in an interview by Beat Magazine what it was like recording at Birdland she states "it was an incredible experience. Lindsay encourages us to push boundaries that we otherwise wouldn't have and as a result, we leave knowing we have given it our very best". 'Roaring Girle' debuted on Australian radio station and the band were special guests on PBS "Go for Broke" hosted by Ken Knievel.
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During the 1970s Barker wrote three manuscripts for what she describes as "middle- class novels" which got positive responses from publishers but were all rejected for publication. Due to these rejections she thought her books would probably never be published so felt free to work on Union Street, a book which she "didn't think could be published". This opinion was backed up by the responses she received which centered on the book being too bleak and depressing In 1978 Barker took part in a writers' workshop run by the Arvon Foundation at Lumb Bank near Heptonstall and met author Angela Carter. Carter read Union Street and encouraged Barker to send the manuscript to the publisher Virago Press.
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It is followed by A Dead Woman on Holiday, which is set during the Nuremberg Trials, followed by her adaptation of Solomon Anski's The Dybbuk. Crossing Jerusalem, is about the conflict in the Middle East, The Golem, a version of the Prague myth of the Golem for young audiences, St Joan a satire based on a Jewish Black Londoner who dreams she is Joan of Arc and Year Zero which reveals World War II stories from Vichy France. In 2007, her adaptation of The Merchant of Venice was staged at the Arcola Theatre and printed as The Shylock Play in 2009. Her autobiographical essay "Prima Ballerina Assoluta" appeared in a [Virago Press] collection Truth, Dare or Promise.
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Ea tells Ṣāltum he has created her to humiliate Ištar and sends this ferocious beast to challenge her. Much of the subsequent text is fragmentary, however the adversaries seem to engage in a protracted whirling dance of battle. Finally, Ištar entreats Ea to save her from this monstrous virago, “May she return to her cave! Ea opened his mouth and the hero of the gods spoke to Agušaya: ‘to be sure, as soon as you said it, I will do (it).’” With Ištar's taming, Ea proposes the instigation of an annual Ištar festival, providing an explanation for the origin of the guštum, a whirling dance performed during the festivities, commemorating the war-like character of Ištar.
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She is on the Advisory Committee of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and served as a 2013 jury member. From 2009-2011 she served as regional chair (Eurasia) for The Commonwealth Writers Prize She is editor of three pioneering anthologies of Pakistani English literature, of which the US edition of And the World Changed Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women received the Gold IPPY award and the Bronze Foreword Award in the United States. Her memoir essays have appeared in 50 Shades of Feminism edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach (Virago, 2013), Moving Worlds: 13.2 Postcolonial South Asian Cities and The Critical Muslim., The Journal of Postcolonial and Commonwealth Studies: Special Pakistan Issue .
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In his entry on the Querquetulanae, Festus says that their name was thought to signify that they were nymphs presiding over the oak grove as it began to produce green growth, and that the Porta Querquetulana was so called because this kind of woodland (silva) was just within the gate.Querquetulanae virae putantur significari nymphae praesidentes querqueto virescenti, quod genus silvae iudicant fuisse intra portam, quae ab edo dicta sit Querquetularia: Festus-Paulus p. 314 in the edition of Lindsay. Festus says that virae in archaic Latin meant feminae, "women", as if it were the feminine form of vir, "man", and that the words virgines (singular virgo) and viragines (virago) reflect this older usage.
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From the Introduction by Sarah Dunant (2014) in the Virago Modern Classics edition: > In her fifth novel North Face (1949) nursing becomes character rather than > plot. Inside a love story between two guests in a Yorkshire [sic] boarding > house after the war, Renault uses two women in their thirties as a kind of > sparring Greek chorus, ruminating on the morality (or not) of the affair. > Already very much professional spinsters, one is a desiccated prissy > academic, while the other is a blowzy, more down-to-earth professional > nurse. Though the satire is at the expense of them both (at times they are > more entertaining than the rather laboured love story), the nurse at least > feels in touch with life.
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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,"You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town", in Barbara Fister, Third World Women's Literature: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English, Greenwood Press, 1995. speaking English in an Afrikaans-speaking community in Namaqualand, attending the University of the Western Cape, leaving for England, and authoring a collection of short stories. This work has been compared to V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival.
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During the 1960s, the Women's Liberation Movement in the UK had a great influence on the literary world. Feminist publishers, Virago (founded in 1973), Onlywomen (1974), The Women's Press (1978), and Sheba (1980), were established, alongside magazines like Spare Rib. Like their counterparts in the US, British feminist editors in the 1970s and 80s created landmark anthologies of women's poetry, which foregrounded the variety and strength of women's writing. These included Lilian Mohin's One Foot on the Mountain (1979), Jeni Couzyn's The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets (1985), Moira Ferguson's First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578-1799 (1985), Kate Armstrong's Fresh Oceans (1989), Jude Brigley's Exchanges (1990), and Catherine Kerrigan's An Anthology of Scottish Women Poets (1991).
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But, alas for human hopes! The only brand of imagination that will be stimulated by the book is that which is better left uncultivated.""Leaves from Latest Books" by Bodleian, The Mail, 30 May 1936, p5 Reviewing the novel on its re-release in the early 1980s under the Virago Modern Classics banner, Hope Hewitt was more forgiving while still seeing the novel's shortcomings: "The Stead qualities are there; the understanding of the female predicament, the verbal response to sensual beauty, the ear for intellectual or pseudo-intellectual dialogue, the ability to observe and re-create the contrasts of cosmopolitan living. But I was not surprised that the book went out of print.
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Pyrrhus The First retired to Harrison's stud at Easby Abbey in Yorkshire, where he stood at a fee of 10 guineas and was advertised as "the best untried stallion of the present day". In 1851 he was moved to stand at Willesden Paddocks where he replaced The Libel. His most successful achievement as a stallion was to sire Virago who won the 1000 Guineas in 1854 and went on to defeat colts and older horses in the Goodwood Cup, Doncaster Cup, City and Suburban Handicap and Great Metropolitan Handicap. Pyrrhus The First was later sold and exported to stand as a stallion in France, where in 1859, he was reported to be "in great favour" and covering at a fee of £20.
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"Utran" was reprinted in English translation as part of an anthology of 20 short stories titled Such Devoted Sisters in 1994, and from there was made into a movie in 1996 under the title Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, with a script by Mira Nair and Helena Kriel."Utran" has been anthologized in three different English translations. The first, by Manisha Chaudhry, was titled "Hand-Me- Downs" and first published in The Slate of Life (Kali for Women, 1990) and reprinted in Such Devoted Sisters (Virago Press, 1993); it was this translation on which the film was based. A translation by Rasheed Moosavi, Vasantha Kannabiran, and Syed Sirajuddin appeared under the title "Castoffs" in Women Writing in India (The Feminist Press, 1993).
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Thalestris is also the name of a character in Mary Renault's historical novel The King Must Die, set in the time of the mythological Theseus, who lived - if he existed at all - a thousand years or more before Alexander. The Thalestris character is depicted by Renault as a skilled Amazonian bull-dancer and valiant warrior - which is presumably why the writer gave her the name of an Amazon queen. In Alexander Pope’s mock heroic poem The Rape of the Lock, Thalestris is the name of a ‘fierce’ supporter of Belinda, whose lock of hair is stolen - a ‘Virago’ who urges Belinda into combat to regain the lock. There is also a brief reference to the courtship between Alexander and Thalestris in Beaumarchais' Le Mariage De Figaro.
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As author Jane Robinson has stated: "It is clear that at certain periods in its history the Women's Institute appears to have lost its way. No doubt there are problems ahead. But it was never in danger of collapsing, and it won’t for a very long time because, at its core, working quietly and behind the scenes, are the women for whom and by whom it was created... supportive ‘sisters’ are still meeting together in villages and towns across the country to make the world a better place."Robinson, Jane,"A force to be reckoned with A history of the Women's Institute", Virago Press, 2011, , p 260 Madge Watt believed in ‘supportive sisters’ and knew that women could contribute to a better world.
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Ackland's selected poems, Journey from Winter, were not published until 2008. Although Warner never wrote an autobiography, Scenes of Childhood was compiled after her death on 1 May 1978 at age 84, based on short reminiscences published over the years in the New Yorker. She also translated Contre Sainte-Beuve by Marcel Proust from the original French into English. In the 1970s, she became known as a significant writer of feminist or lesbian sentiment, and her novels were among the earlier ones to be revived by Virago Press. Selected letters of Warner and Valentine Ackland have been published twice: Wendy Mulford edited a collection titled This Narrow Place in 1988, and ten years later Susanna Pinney published another selection, I’ll Stand by You.
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While scholars such as Seamus Heaney and R. D. Fulk adhere to the limiting tamed virago motif of Modthryth that is apparently suggested by the Beowulf poet, there are various possibilities in regards to the reading of this character. For instance, Helen Damico and Mary Dockray-Miller view Modthryth as a far more majestic and powerful figure than either Fulk or Heaney attests. Damico views Modthryth as encompassing both the threatening and benevolent aspects of the Wælcyrge: she 'parallels the evolution of the archetypal figure that Modthrytho is modelled upon, the progression of fierce war-demon to gold- adorned warrior-queen'. Dockray-Miller fails to agree specifically with Damico's Valkyrie idea, however, stating that she is 'neither a reformed peace pledge, nor a heroic Valkyrie.
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In 1985, while studying at the London College of Printing, she published a second collection of poems, Skies of Design, which won the Asian award under the Best First Book Commonwealth Poetry Prize. From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, she worked as commissioning editor for the feminist Virago Press where she consulted with clients of colour and developed a large collection of Arab women's contributions to English-language writing in Opening the Gates (1980). In 2012, together with de Souza, she edited anthology These My Words: the Penguin Book of Indian Poetry. Although she has not published any further poetry, she is still considered to have played an important role in support of women's poetry, not only for her own work but for the interest she has devoted to women's writing.
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According to Ruether, conservative romanticism suggests that women remain in the home in order to maintain their goodness. Ruether says, "If a woman leaves the home to take up a traditional male occupation, she will straightaway lose this good femininity and become a she-male, a monstrous virago, or will become debased to carnal femaleness, fallen woman." In one survey conducted in 1999, a researcher concluded based on participants' responses, "Even though husbands were not always the sole providers, for the majority of men they remained symbolically so, such that women's employment was nearly always described as secondary, even expendable, in light of wives' responsibility to rear and nurture children." Conservative romanticism opposes gender equality in the work force in order to better preserve traditional roles in the home.
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Her most notable books include A Pin To See the Peepshow (London, W. Heinemann Ltd, 1934; Virago Modern Classics), a fictional treatment of the case of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, and Murder & Its Motives (Heinemann, 1924), which divided killers into six categories based on their motivations: those who murder for Gain, Revenge, Elimination, Jealousy, Conviction and Lust of killing. This classification of motive has remained influential. She contributed many cases to the Notable British Trials series, such as the trial of serial killer John Christie and the controversy surrounding the hanging of his neighbour, Timothy Evans. Her summary of the two trials is extensive, and concludes that Christie was probably the murderer of both Beryl and Geraldine Evans, and that Timothy Evans was innocent of their deaths (Evans was hanged for the murder of his daughter Geraldine, and posthumously pardoned).
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She expressed her feelings and opinions on the Allies' switch in Yugoslavia by writing the satirical short story titled "Madame Sara's Magic Crystal", but decided not to publish it upon discussion with Orme Sargent, Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office.It was published posthumously in The Only Poet (1992), edited by Antonia Till, Virago, pp. 167–78. Writing in her diary, West mentioned Sargent persuaded her that "the recognition of Tito was made by reason of British military necessities, and for no other reason" and following Sargent's claim, she described her decision not to publish the story as an expression of "personal willingness to sacrifice myself to the needs of my country".Madame Sara's After the war, West's anti-Communism hardened as she saw Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and other Eastern and Central European states succumb to Soviet domination.
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Retrieved 26 November 2017. She was a member of the British Black Panthers in the early 1970s, and later helped found the Black Women's Group, which shared similar radical views.THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF THE WOMEN BEHIND THE BRITISH BLACK PANTHERS , The Debrief, 10 March 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2017. She co-authored with Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe the book The Heart of the Race, published in 1985 by Virago and reissued in 2018 by Verso (with a new foreword by Lola Okolosie, and including and an interview with the authors by Heidi Safia Mirza, focusing on the impact of the book since publication and its continuing relevance)."The Heart of the Race" at Verso. In June 2020, Bryan spoke about her involvement with the Black Panther Movement in a rare interview with Tell A Friend podcast.
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Born in Cape Town, she had her undergraduate studies at the University of Cape Town and her doctorate at Columbia University in New York City. She is married to pathologist Siamon Gordon; they have two daughters. Gordon is the author of Eliot's Early Years (1977), which won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize; Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (1984), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (1994), winner of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature; and Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, shortlisted for the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize. Her most recent publications are Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family's Feuds (2010), which has challenged the established assumptions about the poet's life, Shared Lives: Growing Up in 1950s Cape Town; Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter; and Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World (London: Virago, 2017).
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Ferris played the leading female role in Edward Bond's play Saved at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1965. This was subject to censorship by the Lord Chamberlain who was instrumental in bringing a successful prosecution when the producers went ahead and staged the play without cuts before private audiences. Despite the controversial subject matter, which included a scene in which a baby was stoned to death in its pram, the case was a step towards the Lord Chamberlain's losing his censorship role under the Theatres Act 1968. Writer and critic Bernard Levin later opined that Saved contained "extremes [of cruelty] never seen before outside the Grand Guignol, or possibly even inside",Bernard Levin (1970) The Pendulum Years while Ferris's character was described at the time by the Daily Telegraph's critic W.A. Darlington as "a young virago with a screech that afflicts the ear-drums".
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It became an active organization, holding regular weekly meetings, and producing literature which was spread as far as Gibraltar and Malta, describing the horrors of war and advocating pacificism on Christian grounds.Pacifism to 1914 : an overview by Peter Brock. Toronto, Thistle Printing, 1994. (pp. 38–9). The London Peace Society (also known as the Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace) was formed in 1816 to promote permanent and universal peace by the philanthropist William Allen. In the 1840s, British women formed "Olive Leaf Circles", groups of around 15 to 20 women, to discuss and promote pacifist ideas.The Long Road to Greenham : Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820, by Jill Liddington. London, Virago, 1989 (pp. 14–5). The peace movement began to grow in influence by the mid-nineteenth century.Gavin B. Henderson, "The Pacifists of the Fifties" Journal of Modern History 9#3 (1937), pp.
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Hermione Lee has written widely on women writers, American literature, life-writing, and modern fiction. Her books include The Novels of Virginia Woolf (1977); a study of the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen (1981, revised 1999); a short critical book, the first published in Britain, on Philip Roth (1982); a critical biography of the American novelist Willa Cather, Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up (1989, reissued in a revised edition by Virago in 2008); and a major biography of Virginia Woolf (1996), which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize,"Hermione Lee", Literature, British Council. and was named as one of The New York Times Book Review′s best books of 1997. Lee has published a collection of essays on biography and autobiography, Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing (2005), and a biography of Edith Wharton, published to mixed reviews in 2007 by Chatto & Windus and Knopf.
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Millar began in journalism as a trainee on the Mirror Group Graduate Training Scheme in the West Country, later moving to the Daily Express where she worked as a news reporter and lobby correspondent and was a colleague of Peter Hitchens. She was a freelance journalist between 1988 and 1995 contributing to the Daily Express, the Sunday Mirror and The House magazine, Parliament's in house publication. In 1993, she co-authored (with Glenys Kinnock) By Faith and Daring, Interviews with Remarkable Women to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Virago Press. Millar worked in the office of the Leader of the Opposition from 1995 to 1997, as an adviser to Cherie Blair from 1995 to 2003, as a Special Adviser to the Prime Minister Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003, as head of Cherie Blair's office, and Director of Events and Visits at Downing Street.
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Kevin McMahon notes that the shrew is a recurring motif in Strange Tales, citing "Princess Yunluo" and other stories like "Ma Jiefu" and "The Raksha Kingdom" as examples of Pu's "(joining) ranks with fellow men in a collective sigh about the intolerable woman". Qing dynasty critic Feng Zhenluan () writes that the "best thing that could happen in this world" is when a shrew gets punished, whereas Feng's contemporary Dan Minglun () rebukes the spineless man — the foil to the shrew in Pu's stories — for being "unmanly". On the other hand, Yenna Wu argues that, like in his vernacular play Incantation Against Jealousy (), "Princess Yunluo" is offering a "positive portrayal of domestic prison ... in which (a scoundrel's wife) is the warder". An an extension of Wu's analysis, Judith Zeitlin credits Pu with the invention of the "benign shrew" who "paradoxically brings blessings rather than disaster to a household", unlike the "stereotypical" virago that appears in other Strange Tales entries as "Ma Jiefu" and "Jiang Cheng".
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London: Virago UK 2008 In correspondence that her family released to biographer Margaret Forster, du Maurier explained to a trusted few people her own unique slant on her sexuality: her personality comprised two distinct people – the loving wife and mother (the side she showed to the world); and the lover (a "decidedly male energy") hidden from virtually everyone and the power behind her artistic creativity. According to Forster's biography, du Maurier believed the "male energy" propelled her writing.Daphne du Maurier, Myself When Young, Victor Gollancz. Forster wrote that du Maurier's denial of her bisexuality unveiled a "homophobic" fear of her true nature. The children of both du Maurier and Lawrence have objected strongly to the stories about their mothers’ alleged intimate relationship. Two years after Lawrence died, a biography of her authored by her widower, Richard Aldrich, went into detail about a friendship between her and du Maurier that had begun in 1948 when Lawrence had accepted the lead role in du Maurier’s new play September Tide.
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He was married to a woman named Vituriga, who was given the nickname "Samso" for her capabilities (considered "unwomanly" by the fourth century author of Historia Augusta),huic uxor virago, quae illum in hanc praecipitavit dementiam, nomine Samso, quod ei postea inditum est, nam antea Vituriga nominata est. and at the time of his usurpation, he had one son, Herennianus, aged four. Proculus was an ambitious soldier, who had commanded more than one legion as tribune; when in 280 he was asked by the people of Lugdunum (Lyon) who had started a rebellion against Emperor Probus to take the purple, he accepted, proclaiming himself joint emperor with Bonosus. "He was, nevertheless, of some benefit to the Gauls, for he crushed the Alamanni — who then were still called Germans — and not without illustrious glory, though he never fought save in brigand- fashion" (Historia Augusta) On his return from fighting the Sassanids in Syria, Probus forced Proculus to retreat north.
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In 2006 she took up a personal Chair as Professor of Modern English Literature and Culture (part-time) at Newcastle University, where she taught courses on modernism but also developed work on life writing.Light, Alison, Preface, Yvonne Kapp, Time Will Tell, (Verso, 2003); Light, Alison, ‘Biography and Autobiography since 1970’, Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (edited P. Nicholls and L. Marcus), (Cambridge University Press, 2004); Light, Alison, Preface to Daphne du Maurier, The Rebecca Notebooks and other Memories, (Virago, 2004) She published an edition of Flush by Virginia Woolf, with introduction and notes for Penguin Classics (2005) and gave the annual birthday lecture for the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain in 2007. Light’s second book, Mrs Woolf and the Servants (Fig Tree/Penguin 2007; Bloomsbury USA 2008), was both an original study of the servants who worked for the Bloomsbury circle and a social history of domestic service. It won second prize at the Longman History Today Awards and was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
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The terrain of the island favoured in fact the resistance action of groups of Muslims, hoping to restore the dominion of Islam in what in Arabic had initially been called al-Ard al-Kabira, the "Great Land", and then, simply, Siqilliyya. Some Muslim groups had found bases for resistance in central and western Sicily, around Iato and Entella. In Entella the resistance was led by a Muslim woman recorded in the contemporary Christian chronicles as the “Virago of Entella”.Lévi-Provençal, É.: "Une héroine de la resistance musulmane en Sicile au début du XIIIe siècle", in "Oriente Moderno", XXXIV, 1954, pp. 283–288. As a consequence, after most of the affluent and powerful Muslims had returned to North Africa, in 1220 Frederick II determined to expel the remaining Muslims from Sicily, or at least the less docile groups amongst them, who constituted the essential remaining leadership of the Muslim community, the notables, the scholars and the warriors with their families, and resettle them in the southern Italian mainland. The localities of Lucera (in Apulia, dating from 1224), Girofalco (now Girifalco, in Calabria) and Acerenza (in Lucania) were chosen for the resettlement.
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