The Latest Breaking News from Virago

Paying tribute to Virago’s former directors

Letters: Ursula Owen and Harriet Spicer took up the reins in the mid-1970s and made the dreams a reality, write Lennie Goodings and Sarah Savitt

The Guardian - UK · Jun 30, 2023

‘People still do not want women to succeed or be equal. While that is true, you need Virago’: 50 years of the warrior publisher

Formed to ‘break the silence’ for female voices and still as essential and influential as ever, fans and founding members pay tribute to the trailblazing feminist press

The Guardian - UK · Jun 28, 2023

An apology won’t bring back the thousands of trees felled in Sheffield

The result of the council’s vicious campaign means most of us will be long dead before their replacements reach maturity

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2023

Virago founder Carmen Callil remembered by her friend Rachel Cooke: ‘Of course she was difficult’

The Observer writer on the brilliant publisher, a larger-than-life character among whose many talents was an extraordinary capacity for friendship

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2022

A Sultry Month changed how I viewed history. It is well that it has been reissued

Faber has blown the dust off Alethea Hayter’s groundbreaking biography of London’s 19th-century literati – not before time

The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2022

Who was Virago Press founder Dame Carmen Callil?

The dame devoted most of her life to amplifying women’s voices in publishing

Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2022

Virago founder Carmen Callil was a powerhouse who changed the publishing world for the better

The publisher and writer – who has died aged 84 – was a pioneering champion of female writers. Virago’s chair Lennie Goodings remembers her long-time colleague and friend

The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2022

Carmen Callil, pioneering champion of female writers, dies aged 84

Publisher who founded Virago Press began as a campaigning outsider who introduced UK readers to authors including Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood

The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2022