The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers

Author: Mary Morris
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9780316647977
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Three hundred years of wanderlust are captured in this beautiful new illustrated edition of the VIRAGO BOOK OF WOMEN TRAVELLERS. Some of the women are observers of the world in which they wander and others are more active. Often they are storytellers, weaving tales about the people they encounter and whether it is curiosity about the world or escape from personal tragedy, these women approached their journeys with wit, intelligence, compassion and empathy for the lives of others. The constraints and perils, the perceptions and complex emotions women journey with are different and for many women, the inner landscape is as important as the outer. This does not mean that the woman traveller is not politically aware, historically astute or in touch with the customs and language of the place but it does mean that a woman cannot travel and not be aware of her body and the limitations her sex presents.

The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners

Author: Deborah Kellaway
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 9780349008653
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From diggers and weeders, to artists and colourists, writers and dreamers to trend-setters, plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed to the world of gardening and gardens. Here Deborah Kellaway, author of The Making of an English Country Garden and Favourite Flowers , has collected extracts from the 18th century to the present day, to create a book that is replete with anecdotes and good-humoured advice. Colette, Margery Fish, Germaine Greer, Eleanor Sinclair Rohde, Vita Sackville-West, Rosemary Verey, Edith Wharton and Dorothy Wordsworth are some of the writers represented in this book.

Virago Book of Wanderlust and Dreams

Author: Lisa St Aubin de Terán
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 9781860494178
Category : Dreams
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
This collection of women's writing about travel spans over 400 years, five continents, and a variety of characters from cross-dressers to armchair travellers. The authors include: Angela Carter, Jung Chang, Karen Blixen, Marsha Hunt, Bernice Rubens, Harriet Wilson, Beryl Markham, and Dorothy Par.

A Bite of the Apple

Author: Lennie Goodings
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198828756
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know that I had found my home: where books, ideas, politics, imagination, feminism, and business was the air we breathed . . .' A Bite of the Apple is part-memoir, part history of Virago, and part thoughts on over forty years of feminist publishing. This is the story of how the authors and staff who, driven by passion, conviction and excitement, have made Virago Press one of the most important and influential English-language publishers in the world. Lennie Goodings has been with the iconic press founded by Carmen Callil almost since the start. First a publicist and then for over twenty years, publisher and editor, she has worked with extraordinary authors: Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Sarah Waters, Linda Grant, Natasha Walter, Naomi Wolf and Maya Angelou among many others. Virago has been a life-changer for Lennie Goodings - but certainly not only for her. Following the chronology of the press and the enormous breadth of the Virago titles published over these years, she sets her story in the context of feminism, and segues into thoughts on editing, post-feminism, reading, breaking boundaries, and the Virago Modern Classics. Virago lives within the tension between idealism and pragmatism; between sisterhood and celebrity; between watching feminism wax and wane at the same time as knowing so many of the battles are still to be won. This book is about how it felt to be there. A Bite of the Apple is a celebration of writing, of publishing, and of reading.

The Virago Story

Author: Catherine Riley
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785338080
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Virago Story -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I - 1973-83 -- Chapter 1 - Virago's Hands-on Brand of Feminism -- Chapter 2 - Changing the Literary Landscape -- Part II - 1983-94 -- Chapter 3 - 'Alternative, Autonomous, and Viable': Feminist Publishing and the Mainstream -- Chapter 4 - Fragmenting Feminism and Diversifying Women's Writing -- Part III - 1994-2004 -- Chapter 5 - Working Women and the Changing Face(s) of the Book Industry -- Chapter 6 - Third Waves and Disconnections -- Part IV - 2004-17 -- Chapter 7 - Virago's Place in the New Millennium's Literary Marketplace -- Chapter 8 - Twenty-First-Century Feminism(s) and Virago's Role for Women's Writing -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Once Upon a Time There Was a Traveller

Author: Various
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 0748119477
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
Virago Press and the Asham Award, the foremost prize for stories by women, present a collection of tales to send you to places you've never been before . . . Here are tales of people who travel far and those who stay at home and dream; of strange things in suitcases; of roads that should not have been taken; of exotic cities and shabby towns. Some are running away, and some are travelling to come home. With new stories from well-known writers, including Helen Dunmore, and an Angela Carter fable, this is a book to tuck in your backpack, your valise or to enjoy, deep in your armchair, for no one can fail to be hooked by those beguiling words: once upon a time there was a traveller . . .

The Virago Book of Women Travellers

Author: Mary Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853818363
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 438

Book Description

Hagitude

Author: Sharon Blackie
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608688437
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
RADICALLY REIMAGINE THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE “There can be a certain perverse pleasure, as well as a sense of rightness and beauty, in insisting on flowering just when the world expects you to become quiet and diminish.” — from the book For any woman over fifty who has ever asked “What now? Who do I want to be?” comes a life-changing book showing how your next phase of life may be your most dynamic yet. As mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie describes it, midlife is the threshold to decades of opportunity and profound transformation, a time to learn, flourish, and claim the desires and identities that are often limited during earlier life stages. This is a time for gaining new perspectives, challenging and evolving belief systems, exploring callings, uncovering meaning, and ultimately finding healing for accumulated wounds. Western folklore and mythology are rife with brilliantly creative, fulfilled, feisty, and furious role models for aging women, despite our culture’s focus on youthfulness. Blackie explores these archetypes in Hagitude, presenting them in a way sure to appeal to contemporary women. Drawing inspiration from these examples as well as modern mentors, you can reclaim midlife as a liberating, alchemical moment rich with possibility and your elder years as a path to feminine power.

The Rector's Daughter

Author: F. M. Mayor
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN: 1774644312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
The Rector’s Daughter is the story of Mary Jocelyn, a woman who fears life is passing her by. Having lost her mother and her beloved invalid sister, Mary shares her days in sleepy Dedmayne with her father, the severe and distant Canon Jocelyn. Then, with the arrival in the village of Robert Herbert, her quiet, ordered existence is changed forever.

The Wilder Shores of Love

Author: Lesley Blanch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439197342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
Originally published in 1954, The Wilder Shores of Love is the classic biography of four nineteenth-century European women who leave behind the industrialized west for Arabia in search of romance and fulfillment. Hailed by The Daily Telegraph as "enthralling to read," Lesley Blanch’s first book tells the story of Isabel Burton, the wife and traveling companion of the explorer Richard Burton; Jane Digby, who exchanged European society for an adventure in loving; Aimée Dubucq de Rivery, a Frenchwoman captured by pirates who became a member of the Turkish sultan’s harem; and Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss woman who dressed as a man and lived among the Arabs of Algeria.