. virago parent company hachette livre founded 1973 founder carmen callil country of origin united kingdom key people lennie goodings editor nonfiction topics feminism official website http www.virago.co.uk virago is a british publishing company contents 1 history 2 notes 3 further reading 4 external links history edit virago was founded in 1973 by carmen callil primarily to publish books by women writers . both new works and reissued books by neglected authors have featured on the imprint s list as well as works with feminist themes by male authors such as h. g. wells . in 1982 virago became a wholly owned subsidiary of the chatto virago bodley head and cape group but in 1987 callil lennie goodings ursula owen alexandra pringle and harriet spicer put together a management buy out from cvbc then owned by random house usa . the buy out was financed by rothschild ventures and robert gavron . random house uk kept a ten per cent stake in the company and continued to handle sales and distribution . in 1993 rothschild ventures sold their shares to the directors and gavron who thus became the largest single shareholder . after a downturn in the market forced a reduction in activity the board decided to sell the company to little brown of which virago became an imprint in 1996 with lennie goodings as publisher and sally abbey as senior editor . in 2006 virago s parent company became part of publishing group hachette livre . lennie goodings remains as editor and publisher . valentine cunningham has praised virago for trawling most impressively and fruitfully in the novel catalogues of the 1930s for women s fiction to reprint . 1 notes edit cunningham valentine 1993 vin rouge audenaire in cunningham valentine british writers of the thirties clarendon press p. 26 isbn 9780192826558 . further reading edit riley catherine 2008 . do we still need virago fragmenting feminisms and the reflection of change through women s literary output and industry 1973 2007 ph.d. thesis . university of london . oclc 940360989 . google preview . riley catherine 2014 . the message is in the book what virago s sale in 1995 means for feminist publishing . women a cultural review . taylor and francis . 25 3 235 255 . doi 10.1080 09574042.2011.561111 . external links edit virago web site list of virago modern classics v t e lagard re sca lagard re publishing hachette livre armand colin calmann l vy dalloz fayard gautier languereau grasset hachette hatier larousse librairie g n rale fran aise 80 % jc latt s pika stock hatier edelsa hachette usa black dog & leventhal center street faithwords grand central hyperion little brown mulholland books orbit yen 49 % hachette uk hachette children s orchard books1 franklin watts1 wayland headline hodder & stoughton coronet hodder faith mulholland quercus sceptre two roads yellow kite hodder education chambers galore park gibson philip allan updates teach yourself john murray little brown constable & robinson orbit virago sphere octopus 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