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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).

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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, 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) Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
(602) The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith ✓
(603) Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
(604) Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith
The Boy Who Followed Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
(606) Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith
Deep Water, by Patricia Highsmith ✓
(608) Mermaids on the Golf Course by Patricia Highsmith
(609) The Animal-Lover’s Book of Beastly Murder by Patricia Highsmith
(610) Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes by Patricia Highsmith
(611) Slowly, Slowly in the Wind by Patricia Highsmith
(612) The Black House by Patricia Highsmith
(613) This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith
The Tremor of Forgery – Patricia Highsmith
(615) 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) Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith by Patricia Highsmith
Those Who Walk Away – Patricia Highsmith
(627) 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 – Nina Bawden
(643) A Game for the Living – 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
(?) Wayward Girls and Wicked Women – Angela Carter
(?) Some Kind of Black – Diran Adebayo
(?) The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
(?) Owls Do Cry, Janet Frame ✓
(?) Towards Another Summer, Janet Frame ✓
(?) The Orchard on fire, Shena Mackay

Virago Designer Collection

Angel by Elizabeth Taylor (Virago, 2013, 316 p.)

Thematic Short-Story Collections

Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin de Siècle, edited by Elaine Showalter (1993)
Infinite Riches: Virago Short Stories, edited by Lynne Knight (1993)

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notsomoderngirl says:

5 de July de 2018 at 15:31

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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1. juliana brina says:
  
  5 de July de 2018 at 20:32
  
  Thank you! Feel free join the challenge if you want 🙂
  
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  1. notsomoderngirl says:
    
    5 de July de 2018 at 22:25
    
    I might have to have a look through and pick some that I fancy, thanks 🙂
    
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Marianne Maurer says:

2 de March de 2021 at 19:01

Great lists. There seems to be a problem with the link to the “black authors” list, though. Any idea why this doesn’t lead to the article?

Thanks.

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1. juliana says:
  
  3 de March de 2021 at 17:10
  
  Thank you, Marianne! I’ve just fixed the problem with the link 🙂
  
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  1. Marianne Maurer says:
    
    4 de March de 2021 at 14:38
    
    Thanks a lot. It works again. I have included it in my list, as well.
    
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