Tradition
Virago Press
Overview
Virago is a British publisher of 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 political pamphlets 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.
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Comprising two hundred and fifty titles of standard works, embracing fiction, essays, poetry, history, travel, etc., selected from the world's best literature, written by authors of world-wide reputation. Printed from large type, on good paper, and bound in handsome cloth binding, uniform with this volume, Price, 75 cents per copy. =Adam Bede.= By George Eliot. =Æsop's Fables.= =Alhambra, The.= By Washington Irving.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship and travels, vol. 1
Close in meaning to Virago Press; the term itself is not named.
It acts as agent for some of the leading British publishers, including the houses of Murray, Heinemann, Black, Chapman and Hall, and Mowbray; and for the large publishing business of Messrs. Angus and Robertson of Sydney. [Illustration: MARKHAM’S BUILDINGS, CAPE TOWN in which the South African Branch is situated] § 4.
Oxford University Press, Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
Close in meaning to Virago Press; the term itself is not named.
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Library of Congress, Workshop on Electronic Texts
Close in meaning to Virago Press; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Virago Press
Related ideas
- Feminism
- Random House
- The Guardian
- The Bookseller
- United Kingdom
- Pluto Press
- Adrienne Rich
- Second-wave feminism
Place in the tradition
Part of Socialism.