Virago: Changing The World One Page at a Time
Virago: Changing The World One Page at a Time

Virago: Changing The World One Page at a Time

2016-10-31 | 60 min

Despite the 1960s free-love and alternative culture, many women found that their lives and expectations had barely altered. But by the 1970s, the Women's Liberation Movement was causing seismic shifts in the march of the world's events, and women's creativity and political consciousness was soon to transform everything - including the face of publishing and literature. In 1973 a group of women got together and formed Virago Press; an imprint, they said, for 52 per cent of the population. These women were determined to make change - and they would start by giving women a voice, by giving them back their history and reclaiming women's literature.

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Cast

Carmen Callil

Carmen Callil

Ursula Owen

Ursula Owen

Harriet Spicer

Harriet Spicer

Lennie Goodings

Lennie Goodings

Alexandra Pringle

Alexandra Pringle

Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters

Jon Snow

Jon Snow

Jo Brand

Jo Brand

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