Sphere 136
Spicer, Harriet 193 and Chatto & Windus 121, 122–3
Managing Director 45, 124, 131, 147, 175, 180, 183, 185–6
Production Director 7, 9, 17, 20, 23, 24, 28, 33, 35, 41, 47, 51
Virago Modern Classics 76
St Aubin de Teran, Lisa 112
St Ives printers 24
Stafford, Jean 257
Stead, Christina 83, 257 Letty Fox: Her Luck 75
For Love Alone 75
Steedman, Carolyn 100
Stein, Gertrude 83, 88, 257
Steinem, Gloria 12 Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions 222
Stevenson, Juliet 173
Strachey, Ray 94 The Cause 27
Streatfeild, Noel 89
Stride, Alice 103
Stuckey, Lydia 150
Swift, Becky 129, 193
Swift, Graham 218
Syal, Meera 95, 173
Tahsin, Arzu 129
Talese, Nan 205
Tannen, Deborah 100
Tartt, Donna 247
Taylor, Barbara Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century 93–4
Taylor, Elizabeth 72, 76, 86 Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont 240
Taylor, Imogen 189
Thatcher, Margaret 5, 82
Thaw, Abigail 173
Third World Publications 136
Thirkell, Angela 83
Thomas, Rosie Border Crossing 211–12
Thompson, Dorothy (ed.) Over Our Dead Bodies: Women Against the Bomb 98
Thompson, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class 25
Thompson, Glenn 30, 31
Time Warner 185, 190
Tipton, Billy 102
Todd, Janet The Sign of Angelica 79
Tóibín, Colm 242
Toksvig, Sandi 65, 194 Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus 259
Valentine Grey 258–9
Tolstoya, Tatyana 112
Toynbee, Polly 39
Tracy, Jo 129
Travers, P. L. 89
Trefusis, Violet 75
Tremain, Rose 134
Trevor Brown Associates 136
Trevor, William 83
Triangle Translations 136
Trotsky for Beginners 31
Trouble & Strife 11
Tyler, Anne 247
Tynan, Kenneth 84–5
Uglow, Jenny 76
Unsworth, Barry 199
Vauxhall Bridge Road 183
Victorian Classics 10, 84
VIDA 238
Vidal, Gore 49, 166–7
Viney, Charlie 188
Virago Advisory Group 42–3
Virago Bookshop 139
Virago Children’s Classics 89
Virago Irish Classics 74, 82, 83
Virago Modern Classics 71, 89, 124, 166, 191, 219, 222, 223, 238, 253
Virago Non-fiction Classics 223, 235
Virago Pioneers 100, 223
Virago Reprint Library 26, 88
Virago Travellers 88, 223
Virago Upstarts 130, 223
Virago Vs 117, 190–1
Walker, Alice 54, 97, 137, 142, 149, 150, 227 The Color Purple 14
Walker, Rebecca 227
Walkowitz, Judith City of Dreadful Delight 94
Walley, Claire Changing the World One Page at a Time (TV documentary) 24
Walter, Harriet 173
Walter, Natasha 65, 174, 225–6, 227 Living Dolls 174, 228–30
The New Feminism 226, 228, 230
Wandor, Michelene 136
Ward, Harriet 40
Ward, Mrs Humphrey 74
Warner, Marina 99, 1467
Warner, Sylvia Townsend 73, 86 Mr Fortune’s Maggot 75
The True Heart 75
Wasafiri 11
Waterhouse, Keith Billy Liar 164
Waters, Sarah 20, 65, 82, 117–18, 168–70, 191, 208, 253, 254, 259 Affinity 117
The Night Watch 210
Tipping the Velvet 117, 169, 191
Waterstone, Tim 178, 179, 180, 183
Waterstones 178–80
Watts, Janet 76
Webb, Mary 86
Webster, Katrina 121
Weldon, Fay 98, 218
Wells, H. G. 80
Welty, Eudora 84, 257 Losing Battles 85
Wesker, Arnold 31
West, Dorothy 85
West, Rebecca 74, 75, 76, 80–1, 134 The Fountain Overflows 81
WH Smith 137, 179
WH Smith Literary Award 199
Wharton, Edith 76, 84, 85, 257
Whipple, Dorothy 79
Whitbread, Helena (ed.) I Know my Own Heart: The Diary of Anne Lister 94
White, Antonia 74, 76 Frost in May 71, 75
White, Sarah 187
Whitehorn, Katharine Selective Memory 212–13
Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass 250
Wilde, Oscar 211
Wildwood House 41
William Collins publishers 3
Williams, Patricia J. Seeing a Colour-Blind Future 156
Williams, Raymond Culture and Society 26
Williams, Shirley Climbing the Bookshelves 255
Williams, Sian 30
Willowherb Review, The 65
Wilson, Amrit Finding a Voice 94
Wilson, Barbara 112
Wilson, Melba Healthy and Wise: Black Women and Health 152
Winfrey, Oprah 150
Winsloe, Christa 88
Winterson, Jeanette 169
WIRES 11
Wolf, Naomi 65, 224, 225, 226 The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women 61, 224, 229
Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love 250
Vagina: A New Biography 230
Wollstonecraft, Mary 41, 212 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 212
Women and Media 51
Women for Refugee Women 65
Women in Publishing (WIP) 136, 137, 174
Women in Society 92
Women’s Equality Party 61, 65
Women’s Press, Toronto 25
Women’s Press, London 47, 64, 79–80, 88, 136 142, 154, 223
Women’s Press Bookclub, The 136
Women’s Prize for Fiction 65, 153, 235, 236, 238, 240, 248 see also Orange Prize
Women’s Review of Books, The 11
Women’s Therapy Centre 65
Woolf, Leonard 40, 124
Woolf, Virginia 26, 40, 87, 124, 257
Workers Educational Association 136
WOW (Women of the World) festival 103
Wright, iO Tillett Darling Days 231
Writers and Readers Publishing Co-operative 30, 31, 32, 37–8, 41, 129, 136
Writers Guild 136
X-Press 155
Yonge, Charlotte, M. 83
York, Susannah 98
Young, David 190, 193, 228
Young, E. H. 76
Young Person’s Guide to Saving the Planet, The 131
Yourcenar, Marguerite Memoirs of Hadrian 235
Zed Books 136
Zhang, C. Pam How Much of These Hills is Gold 113
Ziegler, Philip 200
Zora Press 154
Acknowledgements
I have many people to thank for helping me get this story onto the page. With huge appreciation I thank those who gave me so much: Margaret Atwood, Richard Beswick, Carmen Callil, Clair Chapwell, Donna Coonan, Susan de Soissons, Sarah Dunant, Zoe Gullen, Hilary Hale, Anne Karpf, Ruthie Petrie, Megan Phillips, Cathy Robertson, Sarah Savitt, Harriet Spicer, Dominic Wakeford, Sarah Waters, Andrew Wille.
To Jacqueline Norton of OUP, whose idea this was, I give deep thanks. I didn’t know how much I wanted to write this book until you suggested it. Thanks too to Katie Bishop and Anna Silva at OUP, and to Cheryl Brant. To my Canadian team: the generous Anne McDermid and my publisher, Dan Wells of Biblioasis, a heartfelt thank-you.
I also want to thank Ailah Ahmed, Diran Adebayo, Joan Bakewell, David Bamford, Julie Barer,
Joanna Bourke, Susie Boyt, Margaret Busby, Virginia Brownlow, Beatrix Campbell, Maria Campbell, Elizabeth Day, Rachel Cooke, Emma Donoghue, Zoe Fairbairns, Mary (Wuzzy) Fawdry, Lyndall Gordon, Linda Grant, Kate Griffin, Tessa Hadley, Marie Hrynczak, David Kent, Charlie King, Janey King, Lynn Knight, Wendy Kysow, Robert Manser, Souad Mekhennet, Lesley Morrison, Judith Murray, Lola Olufemi, Susie Orbach, Ursula Owen, Sally Phipps, Alexandra Pringle, Marilynne Robinson, Rachel Seiffert, David Shelley, Duncan Spilling, Sandi Toksvig, Natasha Walter, Amrit Wilson, and Naomi Wolf, for help or for quotes or for early reads.
To June and Bill Goodings, who have been inspiring parents and important readers for me, and to my brothers, Brian, Craig, and Shawn, and my sister, Laurel, I owe tremendous gratitude. My daughter, Amy, an essential and smart early reader and my son, Zak, a loyal supporter, were in my mind throughout the writing of this book: I want them to inherit a more equal world and they themselves already give me great hope.
John Annette, my dear husband, has lived these many Virago years alongside me and has never wavered in his interest and loyalty—which has included reading and discussing this book many, many times. I know how lucky I am. Thank you. Thank you.
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