Pandora Press
Pandora Press is a UK feminist publishing imprint that was founded in 1983 by Philippa Brewster at
Pandora Press was committed to addressing women's contribution to literary history and to showing, according to The New York Times, that "women were the mothers of the novel and that any other version of its origin is but a myth of male creation", as demonstrated in Spender's 1986 work Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen.[7] As well as exploring the output of female writers of the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, whose work had been overlooked by male historians and literary critics, Spender produced an accompanying series for Pandora Press that featured such writers as Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Mary Hays and Mary Brunton.[1][2]
The imprint published titles by such notable contemporary writers as
As reported by Simone Murray in Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics (
References
- ^ a b Bindel, Julie (19 December 2023). "Dale Spender obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ ISBN 9780745320151.
- ^ Jaggi, Maya (29 May 2004). "Redemption songs". The Guardian.
- ^ Cochrane, Kira (14 March 2013). "Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women?". The Guardian.
- ^ Comerford, Ruth (28 July 2021). "Lacey departs Myriad after 15 years as parent firm 'scales back' publishing". The Bookseller. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ Busby, Margaret (2019). "Acknowledgements". New Daughters of Africa (PDF). Myriad Editions. p. xxiii.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "Books | Non-Fiction". Michelene Wandor website. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
- ^ "On gender and writing / edited by Michelene Wandor". lib.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
- ^ "50 Feminist Books That Changed Our Lives". University of Delaware. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
- ^ Murray, Simone (2004). "Introduction". In Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics. Pluto Press. p. 13.