Our VIRAGO wishlist for 2020

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Our VIRAGO wishlist for 2020

1kaggsy
Editat: nov. 5, 2020, 9:02 am

As the Virago Secret Santa is now getting underway, here is a new thread for us to post our updated Virago Wishlists for 2020!

You can leave further ideas for your Santa on the "Letters to Santa" thread which will appear shortly - but this thread is a nice place to leave lists of Virago (or even Persephone and the like!) titles that would fill a space in your library! :D

2Heaven-Ali
nov. 6, 2020, 6:35 am

VMCs
That's How it was, Maureen Duffy
Some everyday folk and Dawn - Miles Franklin
The Charioteer by Mary Renault
Belinda by Rhoda Broughton,
Rumour of Heaven by Beatrix Lehmann,
The Flint Anchor Sylvia Townsend Warner
Messalina of the suburbs E M Delafield
Thank Heaven Fasting E M Delafield
Spinster by Sylvia Ashton Warner
Ordinary Families by E Arnot Robertson
The House in Clewe Street by Mary Lavin
The Squire's Daughter by F M Mayor

modern vmcs
Blow your house Down - Pat Barker
The Doll - short stories - Daphne Du Maurier
The King's General - Daphne Du Maurier
The Loving Spirit - Daphne Du Maurier
The Friendly Young Ladies - Mary Renault

Persephone

A Woman's Place by Ruth Adams

Some Persephone books I own or have read in other editions but want for my collection.

The Crowded Street - Winifred Holtby
Round About a Pound a Week - Maud Pember Reeves
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Wolf

*other Persephone books I don't own are on my Christmas wishlist for family to buy*

Dean Street Press

I love DSP books I have quite a lot - some ebooks and some physical books. They aren't all listed on LT - I will try to update in the coming days.

Some titles I don't have are:

My Caravaggio Style - Doris Langley Moore
The Native Heath - Elizabeth Fair
Winter and Rough Weather - D E Stevenson
Smouldering Fire - D E Stevenson
Begin Again - Ursula Orange

3alexdaw
nov. 6, 2020, 8:04 pm

VMCs
Not so quiet - Helen Zenna Smith
Love in Winter - Storm Jameson
The fire dwellers - Margaret Laurence
A Jest of God - Margaret Laurance
The Sugar House - Antonia White
The Solitary Summer - Elizabeth von Arnim
This Real Night - Rebecca West
but really anything I ain't got. I just love the old VMCs.

Persephones
Few eggs and no oranges
How to run your home without Help
The Fortnight in September
Round about a Pound a Week
Dinners for Beginners

Violet Needham
These are incredibly rare and ridiculously expensive but just in case you get lucky in a bookshop where someone doesn't know their true value. Girls gone by have done some editions too.

The Great House of Estraville
The Avenue
Adventures at Windsor Castle
The Red Rose of Ruvina
The Secret of the White Peacock
Richard and the Golden Horseshoe

Thank you Secret Santa :)

4kaggsy
nov. 7, 2020, 7:13 am

Here are the Virago and Persephone books I would *particularly* like to grace my library at some point....

VMCs (green if possible but the Spain is a brand new title):

George Egerton – Keynotes and Discords
Elizabeth Gaskell – Curious, If True
Nancy Spain - Death Goes on Skis

Travellers:

Bell Gertrude - The Desert and the Sown
Bird Isabella - Journeys to Persia and Kurdistan Vols 1 & 2
Cable Mildred - The Gobi Desert
David Neel, Alexandra - My Journey to Lhasa
Duff Gordon, Lucie - Letters from Egypt
Eberhardt, Isabelle - The Passionate Nomad Diaries of Isabella Eberhardt
Montagu Lady - The Turkish Embassy Letters
Moodie Susanna - Roughing it in the Bush

Persephone:

Long Live Great Bardfield - Tirza Garwood

5Cornishgirl
Editat: nov. 22, 2020, 4:15 am

Virago’s.

The Third Miss Symons by F M Mayor
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
The Short Stories of Willa Cather
Year Before Last by Kay Boyle
The Last Summer by Kate O’Brien
One Way Love by Gamel Wolsey
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Coymns
The People With the Dogs by Christina Stead
Anna Apparent by Nina Bawden
Hester Lilly by ElizabethTaylor
Virginia by Ellen Glasgow

In the original green if possible.

Persephone

Expiation by Elizabeth Avon Arnim
Young Anne by Dorothy Whipple
Vain Shadow by Jane Hervey

Any from Dean Street Press.

Thank you Santa.

6LyzzyBee
nov. 8, 2020, 2:46 am

These are some Viragoes I would very much like, however I know it's hard to find things at the moment!

Ashton, Helen - any except Bricks and Mortar
Cross, Amanda - any except No Word From Winifred
Gibbons, Stella - Here be Dragons, My American, The Bachelor, The Matchmaker
Handel Richardson, Henry - any except The Getting of Wisdom, Maurice Guest
Leverson, Ada - Any except Love's Shadow/Tenterhooks/Love at Second Sight (The Little Ottleys)
Stallwood, Veronica - any except Oxford Exit and Oxford Mourning
Du Maurier, Daphne - My Cousin Rachel
Powell, Violet - The Life of a Provincial Lady: Study of E.M.Delafield and Her Works
Sharp, Margery - any except The Foolish Gentlewoman, The Nutmeg Tree, The Eye of Love or Cluny Brown. Especially Martha in Paris and Martha, Eric and George

7BeyondEdenRock
nov. 9, 2020, 11:14 am

Here is my 'Most Wanted Virago' list

Virago Modern Classics:

The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Glitter of Mica by Jessie Kesson
The Seventh Horse And Other Tales by Leonora Carrington
A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence
The Fire-Dwellers by Margaret Laurence
Seducers in Ecuador; & The Heir by Vita Sackville-West
Cheerfulness Breaks In by Angela Thirkell
Growing Up by Angela Thirkell

Virago Travellers etc.:

The London Journal of Flora Tristan
Farewell Spain by Kate O'Brien
The Desert and the Sown: The Syrian Adventures of the Female Lawrence of Arabia by Gertrude Bell
My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Néel
Captive Spirit:Selected Prose by Marina Tsvetaeva

9bleuroses
nov. 14, 2020, 3:20 pm

A little late but here's my wishlist!

Viragos:

The Virago Book of Witches (2020 Edition)
The Virago Book of Women Travellers (2020 Edition)
Black Narcissus - New Virago Designer Series
Death Goes on Skis - New Nancy Spain edition.
Dust Tracks on the Road (Hurston) - The original green spine.

Persephones:
Journal - Katherine Mansfield
Alas Poor Lady - Rachel Ferguson

Handheld Press:
Save Me the Waltz - Zelda Fitzgerald
Business as Usual - Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford
Where Stands a Winged Sentry - Margaret Kennedy
Personal Pleasures - Rose Macaulay
Dreaming of Rose - Sarah LeFanu

Dean Street Press:
A House in the Country - Ruth Adam
Much Dithering - Dorothy Lambert
Miss Plum and Miss Penny - Dorothy Evelyn Smith

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