Tag: Virago Modern Classic

• Frost in May

  Virago Modern Classic Number 1: This is the 1991 edition, with an introduction by Elizabeth Bowen. The cover shows a detail from Girl and Flowers by Dod Procter.  Antonia White’s Frost in May, as I’m sure everyone knows, was the very first Virago Modern Classic, published in 1978 after being out of print for many years. I’m not sure why…

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  August 19, 2015

  20thC fiction, Antnia White, convent school, Frost in May, nuns, Virago Modern Classic, women’s fiction

• Tears, Lies – and Ice Cream!

   My 1990 edition of A Little Love, A little Learning. The cover shows Weisse Vase Mit Heidekraut by Oskar Moll. The year Aunt Hat came to us, my main ambition – apart from rescuing someone from drowning, or winning the Victoria Cross – was to go down to Jock’s Icecream Parlour in the main…

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  August 8, 2015

  A Little Learning, A Little Love, coronation, families, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Nina Bawden, Virago Modern Classic

• More Oxfam Goodies

  Just look what I found in the Oxfam shop! This…  And this… I do love book hunting, especially when I strike literary gold! I’ve been looking out for a copy of Nicola Beauman’s A Very Great Professionfor quite some time, so when I spotted this 1983 Virago edition how could I resist? Basically, it’s a…

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  June 24, 2015

  A Very Great Profession, Jean Rhys, Nicola Beauman, Oxfam, Tigers are Better-Looking, Virago Modern Classic

• The Dud Avocado

  I had high hopes of The Dud Avocado, by Elaine Dundy, which I bought because it is a Virago Modern Classic, and because the blurb on the back made it sound so enticing: Sally Jay Gorce, is a woman with a mission. It’s the 1950s, she’s young, she’s in Paris, she’s dyed her hair pink,…

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  March 4, 2015

  Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado, Virago Modern Classic