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Virago modern classics

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83 books here · 1818–2002

Publication order

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The glass cell · Patricia Highsmith

Professor's House · Willa Cather

117

The Reef · Edith Wharton

135

Angel 1957 · Elizabeth Taylor

198

Adam's breed 1929 · Radclyffe Hall

217

The Mother's Recompense · Edith Wharton

252

A Jest of God · Margaret Laurence

376

The four-chambered heart. 1950 · Anaïs Nin

382

The Solitary Summer 1899 · Elizabeth von Arnim

434

Daddy was a number runner · Louise Meriwether

474

Good behaviour 1981 · Molly Keane

539

Nightingale Wood 1938 · Stella Gibbons

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Blue Skies 1976 · Helen Hodgman

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No more than human · Maura Laverty

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The Lacquer Lady · F. Tennyson Jesse

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Vera 1921 · Elizabeth von Arnim

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Lady Oracle · Margaret Atwood

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That Lady 1946 · Kate O'Brien

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Lantana Lane · Eleanor Dark

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The weather in the streets · Rosamond Lehmann

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Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 1907 · Elizabeth von Arnim

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The life and death of Harriett Frean 1922 · May Sinclair

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The lying days · Nadine Gordimer

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Plagued by the Nightinga · Kay Boyle

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Troy Chimneys · Margaret Kennedy

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The Enchanted April 1923 · Elizabeth von Arnim

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The people who knock on the door · Patricia Highsmith

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Marriage 1818 · Susan Ferrier

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Travel light · Naomi Mitchison

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The semi-attached couple · Emily Eden

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Christopher and Columbus · Elizabeth von Arnim

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Mary Olivier 1919 · May Sinclair

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The doves of Venus · Olivia Manning

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A favourite of the gods · Sybille Bedford

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Summer Will Show · Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Mr. Fortune's Maggot · Sylvia Townsend Warner

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The world my wilderness 1950 · Rose Macaulay

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Without my cloak 1931 · Kate O'Brien

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The lifted veil 1985 · George Eliot

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Hester · Margaret Oliphant

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I will not serve 1960 · Eveline Mahyère

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Letty Fox 1946 · Christina Stead

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The judge · Rebecca West

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My friend says it's bullet-proof · Penelope Mortimer

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The Corn King and the Spring Queen · Naomi Mitchison

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The Fruit of the Tree · Edith Wharton

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The Edwardians 1930 · Vita Sackville-West

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Precious bane · Mary Gladys Meredith Webb

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Diana of the Crossways 1890 · George Meredith

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The ante-room 1934 · Kate O'Brien

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The quest for Christa T · Christa Wolf

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Mary Lavelle 1936 · Kate O'Brien

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The Three Sisters 1914 · May Sinclair

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The Golden Spur 1962 · Dawn Powell

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The Odd Women · George Gissing

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The tortoise and the hare 1954 · Elizabeth Jenkins

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A stricken field 1940 · Martha Gellhorn

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Life before man · Margaret Atwood

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The Ponder Heart · Eudora Welty

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Liana 1944 · Martha Gellhorn

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A view of the harbour 1947 · Elizabeth Taylor

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Novel on Yellow Paper · Stevie Smith

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For Love Alone 1944 · Christina Stead

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Losing Battles · Eudora Welty

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Lolly Willowes · Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Sleepless Nights · Elizabeth Hardwick

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The edible woman · Margaret Atwood

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The golden arrow · Mary Gladys Meredith Webb

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The Custom of the Country · Edith Wharton

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Rebecca 1938 · Daphne du Maurier

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All Passion Spent 1931 · Vita Sackville-West

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The Brontes Went to Woolworths · Rachel Ferguson

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Poor Caroline · Winifred Holtby

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Deerbrook 1892 · Harriet Martineau

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The fountain overflows · Rebecca West

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Marcella · Mary Augusta Ward

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The Song of the Lark 1915 · Willa Cather

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Dessa Rose 1986 · Sherley Anne Williams

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Lost Lady · Willa Cather

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The Return of the Soldier · Rebecca West

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The Glimpses of the Moon · Edith Wharton

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My Brilliant Career · Miles Franklin

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Death Comes For The Archbishop 1926 · Willa Cather