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Dame Carmen Callil: Feminist publisher

Witness History

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Carmen Khalil's Instinct for Survival Comes at a Price

The 1970s saw dozens of similar feminist publishing companies, but arguably Virago remains the best known. Some authors such as Antonio White and Margaret Atwood even made it onto the British school curriculum in the 1980s. Carmen Khalil says her instinct for survival came at a price. "I was very strict and stern, you know. Everything had to be done"

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