Index
Virago Modern Classics
I’m reading my way through the entire Virago Modern Classics’ catalog. Virago is a British publishing company founded in 1973 by Carmen Callil, primarily to publish books by women writers.
Read books are marked as (✓). Books I own are in bold. Reviews, when available, are linked below. I have crossed off a few books which do not interest me (DNFs).
- Virago List: here
- Goodreads list: here
- LibraryThing list: here and here and here
- LibraryThing Group: here
- Goodreads Group: here
- Facebook Group: here
- Virago Tracker: here
- Books I own: 236/661 (in bold)
- Books I read: 61/235 (checked with a  ✓)
Click on the link to read the review, when available.
- Frost in May by Antonia White ✓
- Mr Fortune’s Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Letty Fox: Her Luck by Christina Stead
- For Love Alone by Christina Stead
- Precious Bane by Mary Webb
- The Holiday by Stevie Smith
- Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
- Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley ✓
- Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
- A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse
- The Lacquer Lady by F. Tennyson Jesse
- The Lost Traveller by Antonia White
- The Sugar House by Antonia White
- Beyond the Glass by Antonia White
- The Semi-Attached Couple and the Semi-detached House by Emily Eden
- Gone to Earth by Mary Webb
- Pilgrimage I, II, III, IV, by Dorothy Richardson
- Over the Frontier by Stevie Smith
- The Beth Book by Sarah Grand ✓
- A Lost Lady by Willa Cather✓
- My Antonia by Willa Cather ✓
- The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
- The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
- Mary Olivier: A Life by May Sinclair
- The Life and Death of Harriet Frean by May Sinclair
- Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith ✓
- Unsocial Socialist by G. Bernard Shaw
- Ann Veronica by H.G. Wells
- Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith
- The Odd Women by George Gissing
- The Return of the Solider by Rebecca West
- The Judge by Rebecca West
- Harriet Hume by Rebecca West
- My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
- The Third Miss Symons by F.M. Mayor
- Cotters’ England by Christina Stead
- Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
- Yonnondio by Tillie Olsen
- Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
- Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
- The Unlit Lamp by Radclyffe Hall
- The Vet’s Daughter by Barbara Comyns ✓
- Strangers by Antonia White
- The Shutter of Snow by Emily Holmes Coleman ✓
- The Love Child by Edith Oliver ✓
- Plagued by the Nightingale by Kay Boyle
- The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
- Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman  ✓
- The House in Dormer Forest by Mary Webb
- My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin
- Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann ✓
- The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
- Moonraker by F. Tennyson Jesse
- The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
- The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- A Little Tea, A Little Chat by Christina Stead
- The People with the Dogs by Christina Stead
- The Sheltered Life by Ellen Glasgow
- Virginia by Ellen Glasgow
- The Ladies of Lyndon by Margaret Kennedy
- Together and Apart by Margaret Kennedy
- Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby
- The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby
- Cassandra at the Wedding, by Dorothy Baker (1962) ✓
- Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
- The Gipsy’s Baby by Rosamond Lehmann
- A Note in Music by Rosamond Lehmann
- The Harsh Voice by Rebecca West
- Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley
- The Orchid House by Phyllis Shand Alfey
- The Three Sisters by May Sinclair
- The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
- The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall (1928) ✓
- My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
- The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
- Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
- The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty
- Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
- The Sleeping Beauty by Elizabeth Taylor
- Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
- Four Frightened People by E. Arnot Robertson
- Ordinary Families by E. Arnot Robertson
- The Beauties and the Furies by Christina Stead
- Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall
- Mandoa, Mandoa! by Winifred Holtby
- A Woman, by Sibilla Aleramo, tr. Rosalind Delmar (1980. Original: Una donna, 1906) ✓
- Company Parade by Storm Jameson
- Women Against Men by Storm Jameson
- From Man to Man by Olive Schreiner
- Seven for a Secret by Mary Webb
- The Ballad and the Source by Rosamond Lehmann
- A Sea-Grape Tree by Rosamond Lehmann
- The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter ✓
- Miss Herbert by Christina Stead
- The Little Ottleys by Ada Leverson
- That’s How it Was by Maureen Duffy
- The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
- Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther, by Elizabeth von Arnim
- Vera, by Elizabeth von Arnim ✓
- Keynotes and Discords, by George Egerton
- The World My Wilderness, by Rose Macaulay ✓
- Told By An Idiot, by Rose Macaulay
- A Model Childhood, by Christa Wolf
- Deerbrook, by Harriet Martineau
- Deborah, by Esther Kreitman ✓
- Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, by Barbara Comyns
- All Passion Spent, by Vita Sackville-West
- The Edwardians, by Vita Sackville-West ✓
- In a Summer Season, by Elizabeth Taylor ✓
- The Soul of Kindness, by Elizabeth Taylor
- The Land of Green Ginger, Winifred Holtby
- Joanna Godden, by Sheila Kaye-Smith
- Susan Spray – Sheila Kay Smith
- The Reef – Edith Wharton
- Roman Fever– Edith Wharton
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – M. Barnard Eldershaw
- The Roaring Nineties – Katharine Susannah Pritchard
- The Constant Nymph – Margaret Kennedy ✓
- Hunt the Slipper, by Violet Trefusis
- The Corn King and the Spring Queen, by Naomi Mitchison
- I’m Not Complaining, by Ruth Adam
- Bodily Harm – Margaret Atwood
- The Ponder Heart – Eudora Welty
- O Pioneers! – Willa Cather
- The Lying Days – Nadine Gordimer
- Occasion for Loving – Nadine Gordimer
- The Golden Arrow – Mary Webb
- Love in Winter – Storm Jameson
- None Turn Back – Storm Jameson
- A Compass Error – Sybille Bedford
- Favourite of the Gods – Sybille Bedford
- Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
- Dancing Girls – Margaret Atwood
- The Rising Tide, by Molly Keane
- Devoted Ladies – Molly Keane
- Mary Lavelle – Kate O’Brien
- Miss Mole – E.H. Young
- The Misses Mallett – E.H. Young
- I Will Not Serve – Eveline Mahyere
- The Fountain Overflows – Rebecca West
- The Thinking Reed, by Rebecca West
- The Fruit of the Tree – Edith Wharton
- Madame de Treymes – Edith Wharton
- The Friendly Young Ladies, by Mary Renault (1944. US title: The Middle Mist, 1945) ✓
- The Play Room, by Olivia Manning
- The Doves of Venus – Olivia Manning
- Golden Miles – Katharine Susannah Pritchard
- Winged Seeds – Katharine Susannah Pritchar
- Hester, by Margaret Oliphant (1883) ✓
- Aurora Floyd – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Belinda – Rhoda Broughton ✓
- Marcella – Mrs Humphrey Ward
- Luminous Isle, by Eliot Bliss
- Her, by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) ✓
- Bid Me to Live, by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
- The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
- Shadows on the Rock – Willa Cather
- The Puzzleheaded Girl – Christina Stead
- Diary of a Provincial Lady, by E. M. Delafield ✓
- The Devastating Boys and Other Stories – Elizabeth Taylor
- Sisters by a River – Barbara Comyns
- The Ha-Ha, by Jennifer Dawson
- Blood on the Dining Room Floor – Gertrude Stein
- Smoke and Other Early Stories – Djuna Barnes ✓
- That Lady – Kate O’Brien
- Never No More – Maura Laverty
- Women in the Wall – Julia O’Faolain
- Trooper to the Southern Cross – Angela Thirkell
- Bobbin Up – Dorothy Hewett
- Elizabeth and Her German Garden – Elizabeth von Arnim
- The Aloe – Katherine Mansfield
- No Signposts in the Sea – Vita Sackville-West ✓
- Travel Light, by Naomi Mitchison
- Jenny Wren – E.H. Young
- The Curate’s Wife – E.H. Young
- Old New York, Edith Wharton
- The Children, Edith Wharton
- The Collected Stories, Katherine Anne Porter
- Lucy Gayheart, Willa Cather
- The Wedding Group, by Elizabeth Taylor
- Palladian, by Elizabeth Taylor
- Troy Chimneys – Margaret Kennedy
- Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary E. Braddon ✓
- Red Pottage, Mary Cholmondley  ✓
- Clever Women of the Family – Charlotte Yonge
- The Lifted Veil, George Eliot
- The Persimmon Tree, by Marjorie Barnard
- The Little Company – Eleanor Dark
- Poor Caroline – Winifred Holtby
- Two Days in Aragon – Molly Keane
- Mad Puppetstown – Molly Keane
- One Fine Day, by Mollie Panter-Downes
- The Gentlewomen – Laura Talbot
- On the Side of the Angels – Betty Miller
- Adam’s Breed – Radclyffe Hall
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston  ✓
- The Street, Ann Petry ✓
- Open the Door!, by Catherine Carswell
- Marriage, Susan Ferrier
- Crossriggs, Jane & Mary Findlater
- Rhapsody, by Dorothy Edwards
- Winter Sonata, by Dorothy Edwards
- A Stricken Field – Martha Gellhorn
- A Fine of Two Hundred Francs – Elsa Triolet
- Losing Battles – Eudora Welty
- Mary O’Grady – Mary Lavin
- No More Than Human – Maura Laverty
- Some Everyday Folk and Dawn – Miles Franklin
- Lantana Lane – Eleanor Dark
- Cecilia, Fanny Burney
- Millenium Hall – Sarah Scott
- A Game of Hide and Seek – Elizabeth Taylor ✓
- The Ghostly Lover – Elizabeth Hardwick
- Mother’s Recompense, Edith Wharton
- Hudson River Bracketed, Edith Wharton
- Barren Ground – Ellen Glasgow
- Her Son’s Wife – Dorothy Canfield
- Omnibus (The Weather in the Streets/Frost in May/All Passion Spent)
- The Enchanted April – Elizabeth von Arnim
- Saraband – Eliot Bliss
- The Skin Chairs, by Barbara Comyns
- Year Before Last – Kay Boyle
- My Last Bride- Kay Boyle
- Chronicles of Carlingford by Margaret Oliphant
- (227) The Rector and The Doctor’s Family – Mrs Oliphant
- (228) Salem Chapel – Mrs Oliphant
- The Salzburg Tales – Christina Stead
- Cindie – Jean Devanny
- Painted Clay, by Capel Boake (1917) ✓
- Full House – Molly Keane
- Without My Cloak – Kate O’Brien
- Family History – Vita Sackville-West
- The Birds Fall Down, by Rebecca West ✓
- The Blush and Other Stories – Elizabeth Taylor
- Sapphira and the Slave Girl – Willa Cather
- Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, by Barbara Comyns
- One Way of Love – Gamel Woolsey ✓
- Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister – Aphra Behn
- The Living Is Easy, by Dorothy West
- Chatterton Square – E.H. Young
- The Perpetual Curate – Mrs Oliphant
- The Three Miss Kings – Ada Cambridge
- A View of the Harbour – Elizabeth Taylor ✓
- The Squire – Enid Bagnold
- The Happy Foreigner, by Enid Bagnold
- Liana – Martha Gellhorn
- The Matriarch, by G. B. Stern (1924) ✓
- Hungry Hearts and Other Stories – Anzia Yezierska
- The Stone Angel – Margaret Laurence
- A Jest of God – Margaret Laurence
- The Gods Arrive, Edith Wharton
- The Brimming Cup – Dorothy Canfield
- Taking Chances – Molly Keane
- Rumour of Heaven, by Beatrix Lehmann
- Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The Pastor’s Wife – Elizabeth von Arnim
- The Rector’s Daughter – F.M. Mayor
- The Squire’s Daughter – F.M. Mayor
- The Camomile – Catherine Carswell
- The Simple Truth – Elizabeth Hardwick ✓
- The New House, by Lettice Cooper
- Fenny by Lettice Cooper
- The Fly on the Wheel – Katherine Thurston
- The House in Clewe Street – Mary Lavin
- A Saturday Life – Radclyffe Hall
- Olivia – Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) ✓
- Seducers in Ecuador and the Heir, by Vita Sackville-West
- This Real Night, by Rebecca West
- The Overlanders – Dora Birtles
- One of Ours, Willa Cather
- South Riding – Winifred Holtby
- The Armour Wherein He Trusted – Mary Webb
- Tea at Four o’Clock – Janet McNeill ✓
- Jonah’s Gourd Vine – Zora Neale Hurston
- She Knew She Was Right – Ivy Litvinov
- At Mrs Lippincote’s, by Elizabeth Taylor
- The Brontes Went to Woolworths – Rachel Ferguson
- At the Still Point – Mary Benson
- The Loved and Envied, by Enid Bagnold
- The Daisy Chain – Charlotte Yonge
- Poor Cow – Nell Dunn
- Up the Junction – Nell Dunn
- The Wild Geese – Bridget Boland
- Loving Without Tears – Molly Keane
- The Land of Spices – Kate O’Brien
- Aleta Dey – Francis Marion Beynon
- Fireworks – Angela Carter
- The Way Things Are, by E.M. Delafield
- Thank Heaven Fasting, by E.M. Delafield
- William – E.H. Young
- The Willow Cabin, by Pamela Frankau
- A Wreath for the Enemy, by Pamela Frankau
- Sunlight on a Broken Column – Attia Hossein
- Phoenix Fled – Attia Hossein
- Love, Elizabeth von Arnim
- The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton ✓
- The Corner that Held Them, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Miss Marjoribanks, Mrs Oliphant ✓
- A Deputy Was King – G.B. Stern
- The Wind Changes, by Olivia Manning
- Cousin Rosamund, by Rebecca West
- The Fire-Dwellers – Margaret Laurence  ✓
- Not So Quiet, by Helen Zenna Smith
- We That Were Young, by Irene Rathbone
- The Story of an African Farm – Olive Schreiner
- A Touch of Mistletoe, by Barbara Comyns
- Blue Skies & Jack & Jill – Helen Hodgson
- Phoebe, Junior, Mrs Oliphant
- The Winged Horse – Pamela Frankau
- Brother Jacob, George Eliot
- Clash – Ellen Wilkinson
- The Caravaners – Elizabeth von Arnim
- Cassandra, by Christa Wolf
- Tortoise by Candlelight – Nina Bawden
- What’s It Like Out? – Penelope Gilliatt
- Music Upstairs – Shena Mackay
- My Friend Says It’s Bullet-proof, by Penelope Mortimer
- The Microcosm – Maureen Duffy
- Journey to Paradise, by Dorothy Richardson
- Cullum – E. Arnot Robinson
- The Diviners – Margaret Laurence
- Young Entry – Molly Keane
- The Ante-Room – Kate O’Brien
- Seventh Horse & Other Tales by Leonora Carrington
- After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Everything Is Nice (Collected Stories) by Jane Bowles
- Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther
- Peking Picnic by Ann Bridge
- The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
- Celia – E.H. Young
- A Little Love, A Little Learning – Nina Bawden
- Nobody’s Business – Penelope Gilliatt
- Borderline – Janette Turner Hospital
- Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger – Shena Mackay
- Eight Cousins, Louisa May Alcott
- A Rose in Bloom, Louisa May Alcott
- Alexander’s Bridge, Willa Cather
- Zoe, Â Geraldine Jewsbury
- Good Daughters, Mary Hocking ✓
- Emma, Jane Austen
- Indifferent Heroes, Mary Hocking
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Welcome Strangers, Mary Hocking
- Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
- Selected Stories, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Illyrian Spring, by Ann Bridge
- The Last of Summer – Kate O’Brien
- Hester Lilly and Other Stories – Elizabeth Taylor
- The Rock Cried Out – Ellen Douglas
- A Particular Place – Mary Hocking
- The King of a Rainy Country, by Brigid Brophy (1956) ✓
- Two Worlds and Their Ways, Ivy Compton-Burnett (1990, 310 p.)  ✓
- The Mighty and Their Fall, Ivy Compton-Burnett
- Treasure Hunt – Molly Keane
- Villette, Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
- Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte ✓
- The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen – Elizabeth von Arnim
- Try Anything Twice – Jan Struther
- Sunflower, by Rebecca West
Tell Me a Riddle & Yonnondio (also #’s 38/39), by Tillie Olsen- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte ✓
- Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
- A Woman of My Age – Nina Bawden
- As Once in May – Antonia White
- Conversation Piece – Molly Keane
- The Birds on the Trees, by Nina Bawden
- Hackenfeller’s Ape, by Brigid Brophy
- The Hearing Trumpet, by Leonora Carrington ✓
- The Golden Spur – Dawn Powell
- Blaming, by Elizabeth Taylor
- A Heritage and Its History, Ivy Compton-Burnett
- The Vicar’s Daughter – E.H. Young
- The Four-Chambered Heart – Anais Nin
- Walking Naked – Nina Bawden
- White Bird Passes – Jessie Kesson
- Another Time, Another Place – Jessie Kesson
- A Dedicated Man and Other Stories – Elizabeth Taylor
- The Ice House – Nina Bawden
- The Solitary Summer – Nina Bawden
- The Other Woman – Colette
- Collages – Anais Nin
- Crewe Train – Rose Macaulay
- Where the Apple Ripens and Other Stories – Jessie Kesson
- Glitter of Mica – Jessie Kesson
- The Grain of Truth – Nina Bawden
- The Knight of Cheerful Countenance – Molly Keane
- The Dud Avocado – Elaine Dundy  ✓
- Lolly Willowes – Sylvia Townsend Warner ✓
- Mr Skeffington – Elizabeth von Arnim
- A Wreath of Roses, by Elizabeth Taylor
- Familiar Passions – Nina Bawden
- Mother and Son, Ivy Compton-Burnett
- Christopher and Colombus, by Elizabeth von Arnim
- George Beneath a Paper Moon – Nina Bawden
- All the Dogs of My Life – Elizabeth von Arnim
- Glimpses of the Moon, Edith Wharton
- No Place on Earth by Christa Wolf
- The Custom of the Country- Edith Wharton
- The Constant Sinner – Mae West
- She Done Him Wrong – Mae West
- Anna Apparent, Nina Bawden
- Curious, If True: Strange Tales, Elizabeth Gaskell
- Several Perceptions – Angela Carter
- The Transit of Venus, by Shirley Hazzard
- A Very Great Profession, by Nicola Beaumann
- A Suppressed Cry – Victoria Glendinning
- Twilight Sleep, Edith Wharton
- The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, Edith Wharton
- I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
- The Sheik – E.M. Hull
- The Way of an Eagle – E.M. Hull
- Three Weeks – Elinor Glyn
- Union Street – Pat Barker
- Blow Your House Down – Pat Barker
- Pirates at Play – Violet Trefusis
- Liza’s England – Pat Barker
- Playing the Harlot – Patricia Avis
- A Virtuous Woman – Kaye Gibbons
- You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town – Zoe Wicomb
- The Orlando Trilogy, by Isabel Colegate
- Heartburn – Nora Ephron
- The Hours Before Dawn, by Celia Fremlin
- Sheep’s Clothing, by Celia Dale
- The Rising of the Moon, by Gladys Mitchell
- A Death in the Life – Dorothy Salisbury Davis
- The Last Magician – Janette Turner Hospital
- Christina Rossetti – Frances Thomas
- Joanna – Lisa St Aubin de Teran
- The Richer, The Poorer – Dorothy West
- The Wedding – Dorothy West
- Family Money – Nina Bawden
- Devil by the Sea – Nina Bawden
- Daddy Was a Number Runner – Louise Meriwether
- The Flint Anchor – Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Women’s Room – Marilyn French
- The Bull Calves – Naomi Mitchison
- Sights Unseen – Kaye Gibbons
- Charms for the Easy Life – Kaye Gibbons
- Dangerous Calm – Elizabeth Taylor
- Shadow Dance – Angela Carter
- Dear Departed – Marguerite Yourcenar
- Circles of Deceit – Nina Bawden
- Seventh Heaven – A. Hoffman
- The Bleeding Heart – Marilyn French
- Dessa Rose – Sherley Anne Williams
- The Bay of Noon – Shirley Hazzard
- The Spoilt Kill – Mary Kelly
- Ellen Foster – Kaye Gibbons
- Solstice – Joyce Carol Oates
- Expensive People – Joyce Carol Oates
- Afternoon of a Good Woman – Nina Bawden
- The Collected Stories – Eudora Welty
- How Many Years – Marguerite Yourcenar
- Remember, Remember! The Selected Stories of Winifred Holtby – ed. Marion Shaw
- Kinflicks – Lisa Alther
- John Brown’s Body – A.L. Barker
- The Gooseboy – A.L. Barker
- A Woman of Independent Means – E.F. Hailey
- The Men’s Room – Ann Oakley
- Love of Worker Bees/A Great Love – Alexandra Kollantai
- The Dark Tide – Vera Brittain
- New York Mosaic – Isabel Bolton
- The Bread and Butter Stories – Mary Norton
- Honourable Estate – Vera Brittain
-  Dusty Answer, by Rosamond Lehmann ✓
- The Echoing Grove – Rosamond Lehmann
- The Sugar Mother – Elizabeth Jolley
- The Newspaper from Claremont Street – Elizabeth Jolley
- A Woman’s Guide to Adultery – Carol Clewlow
- A Garden of Earthly Delights – Joyce Carol Oates
- Original Sins – Lisa Alther
- Good Behaviour – Molly Keane ✓
- Time After Time – Molly Keane
- Loving and Giving – Molly Keane
- Love Lessons – Joan Wyndham
- Manhattan, When I Was Young – Mary Cantwell
- The Odd Woman – Gail Godwin
- Peyton Place – Grace Matalious
- Now in November – Josephine Johnson
- Provincial Daughter – R.M. Dashwood
- The Bondwoman’s Narrative – Hannah Crafts
- The Eye of Love – Margery Sharp
- Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
- The Good Husband – Gail Godwin
- 84 Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff
- Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier  ✓
- Jamaica Inn – Daphne du Maurier
- Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne du Maurier
- My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier ✓
- The House on the Strand – Daphne du Maurier
- Submerged – A.L. Barker
- All Men Are Mortal – Simone de Beauvoir
- Paris Was Yesterday – Janet Flanner
- All of Us There – Polly Devlin
- The Loving Spirit – Daphne du Maurier
- The Birds and Other Stories – Daphne du Maurier  ✓
- The King’s General – Daphne du Maurier
- The Rebecca Notebook – Daphne du Maurier
- Mary Anne – Daphne du Maurier
- The Scapegoat – Daphne du Maurier
- The du Mauriers – Daphne du Maurier
- Myself When Young – Daphne du Maurier
- Rule Britannia – Daphne du Maurier
- Julius – Daphne du Maurier
- The Glass-Blowers – Daphne du Maurier
- Gerald: A Portrait – Daphne du Maurier
- Castle Dor – Daphne du Maurier
- Live Alone and Like It – Marjorie Hillis
- Round About a Pound a Week – Maud Pember Reeves
- Mother Country – Elisabeth Russell Taylor
- The Sin Eater – Alice Thomas Ellis
- The Summerhouse Trilogy – Alice Thomas Ellis
- I’ll Never Be Young Again – Daphne du Maurier
- The Flight of the Falcon – Daphne du Maurier
- The Old Man and Me – Elaine Dundy
- Parasites – Daphne du Maurier
- The Rendezvous and Other Stories – Daphne du Maurier
- Pillion Riders – Elisabeth Russell Taylor
- Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady – Florence Kinge
- Christine – Madeleine Masson
- The Winding Stair – Daphne du Maurier
- The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte – Daphne du Maurier
- Beyond These Walls – Janina Bauman
- Symposium – Muriel Spark
- Loitering with Intent – Muriel Spark
- Vanishing Cornwall – Daphne du Maurier
- Golden Lads – Daphne du Maurier
- The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
- Jane and Prudence – Barbara Pym
- West with the Night – Beryl Markham
- An Angel at My Table – Janet Frame
- The Diary of Helena Morley
- Hungry Hill – Daphne du Maurier
- No Fond Return of Love – Barbara Pym
- The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings – Charlotte Perkins Gilman  ✓
- Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
- Nightingale Wood – Stella Gibbons
- The Breaking Point and Other Stories – Daphne du Maurier
- Some Tame Gazelle – Barbara Pym
- The Comforters – Muriel Spark
- Excellent Women – Barbara Pym ✓
- When Rain Clouds Gather – Bessie Head
- Living in the Maniototo – Janet Frame
- A Far Cry from Kensington – Muriel Spark
- A Glass of Blessings – Barbara Pym
- The Group – Mary McCarthy
- Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
- Less Than Angels – Barbara Pym
- Desert of the Heart – Jane Rule
- The Daylight and the Dust:Selected Short Stories – Janet Frame
- 117 Days – Ruth First
- Challenge – Vita Sackville-West
- The Doll: Short Stories – Daphne du Maurier
- Civil to Strangers – Barbara Pym
- The Company She Keeps – Mary McCarthy
- Damage – Josephine Hart
- Sin – Josephine Hart
- A Woman in Berlin – Anonymous
- An Academic Question – Barbara Pym
- Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
- Testament of Friendship – Vera Brittain
- The Complete Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor
- The River – Rumer Godden
- Black Narcissus – Rumer Godden
- Kingfishers Catch Fire – Rumer Godden
- Crampton Hodnet – Barbara Pym
- High Rising – Angela Thirkell
- Wild Strawberries – Angela Thirkell
- Tin Toys Trilogy – Ursula Holden
- In Diamond Square – Merce Rodoreda
- Breakfast with the Nikolides – Rumer Godden
- The Battle of the Villa Fiorita – Rumer Godden
- A Fugue in Time – Rumer Godden
- Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy – Rumer Godden
- Cromartie v. the God Shiva – Rumer Godden
- China Court – Rumer Godden
- In This House of Brede – Rumer Godden
- Listen to the Nightingale – Rumer Godden
- Thursday’s Children – Rumer Godden
- The Dark Horse (Children’s) – Rumer Godden
- An Episode of Sparrows (Children’s) – Rumer Godden
- Harriet Said… – Beryl Bainbridge ✓
- A Weekend With Claude – Beryl Bainbridge
- Sweet William – Beryl Bainbridge
- A Quiet Life – Beryl Bainbridge
- The Mandelbaum Gate – Muriel Spark
- Pomfret Towers – Angela Thirkell
- The Charioteer – Mary Renault ✓
- Emily of New Moon – L.M. Montgomery
- Emily Climbs – L.M. Montgomery
- Emily’s Quest – L.M. Montgomery
- Christmas at High Rising – Angela Thirkell
- One Pair of Feet – Monica Dickens
- Summer Half – Angela Thirkell
- August Folly – Angela Thirkell
- The Brandons – Angela Thirkell
- Territorial Rights – Muriel Spark
- The Public Image – Muriel Spark
- (601)Â Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
- (602) The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith ✓
- (603)Â Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
- (604)Â Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith
- The Boy Who Followed Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
- (606)Â Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith
- Deep Water, by Patricia Highsmith ✓
- (608)Â Mermaids on the Golf Course by Patricia Highsmith
- (609)Â The Animal-Lover’s Book of Beastly Murder by Patricia Highsmith
- (610)Â Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes by Patricia Highsmith
- (611)Â Slowly, Slowly in the Wind by Patricia Highsmith
- (612)Â The Black House by Patricia Highsmith
- (613)Â This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith
- The Tremor of Forgery – Patricia Highsmith
- (615)Â The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
- (616) Carol by Patricia Highsmith
- Purposes of Love – Mary Renault
- Return to Night – Mary Renault
- Rilla of Ingleside – L.M. Montgomery
- Jane of Lantern Hill – L.M. Montgomery
- A Suspension of Mercy – Patricia Highsmith
- Kind are her Answers – Mary Renault
- North Face – Mary Renault
- Fire From Heaven – Mary Renault
- The Persian Boy – Mary Renault
- (625)Â Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith by Patricia Highsmith
- Those Who Walk Away – Patricia Highsmith
- (627)Â Funeral Games by Mary Renault
- The Glass Cell – Patricia Highsmith
- Little Tales of Misogyny – Patricia Highsmith
- The Lady and the Unicorn – Rumer Godden
- Aunt Sass – Christmas Stories – P.L. Travers
- I Go by Sea, I Go by Land – P.L. Travers
- Mossy Trotter – Elizabeth Taylor
- The King Must Die – Mary Renault
- The Bull From The Sea – Mary Renault
- The Blunderer – Patricia Highsmith
- Edith’s Diary – Patricia Highsmith
- The Praise Singer – Mary Renault
- The Mask of Apollo – Mary Renault
- The Last of the Wine – Mary Renault
- The Serial Garden – Joan Aiken
- The Kingdom and the Cave – Joan Aiken
- (?) Ruffian on the Stair –Â Nina Bawden
- (643) A Game for the Living –Â Patricia Highsmith
- The Fox at the Manger – P.L. Travers
- Small G – Patricia Highsmith
- Found in the Street – Patricia Highsmith
- A Dog’s Ransom – Patricia Highsmith
- (?)Â Wayward Girls and Wicked Women – Angela Carter
- (?)Â Some Kind of Black –Â Diran Adebayo
- (?)Â The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
- (?) Owls Do Cry, Janet Frame ✓
- (?) Towards Another Summer, Janet Frame ✓
- (?) The Orchard on fire, Shena Mackay
Wow, this is a fantastic idea for a post! I love Virago books, and I think this is a great challenge for yourself, or for anyone else 🙂
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Thank you! Feel free join the challenge if you want 🙂
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I might have to have a look through and pick some that I fancy, thanks 🙂
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