Jane Miller — In My Own Time: Thoughts and Afterthoughts

London, Virago, 2016. First edition. Cloth. A lovely signed collection of essays written for 'In These Times' by acclaimed author of 'Crazy Age', Jane Miller. This copy previously owned by renowned publisher, writer and critic, Carmen Callil. She was the founder of Virago Press, the publisher of this work. Signed by the author to the title page. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. These pieces serve as windows into the mind of the author over the course of the last four years, collected from their first appearances as columns for a Chicago-based magazine called In These Times. Jane Miller, whose works include 'School for Women', 'Women Writing About Men' and 'Crazy Age' discusses reading Tolstoy in Russian, on Syrian refugees, political scandals, and the demise of the NHS, among other topics.From the library of Carmen Callil, an Australian publisher who founded Virago Press in 1973, to "publish books which celebrated women and women's lives, and which would, by so doing, spread the message of women's liberation to the whole population". Virago publish works by new and neglected female authors, publishing the works by authors such as Daphne du Maurier, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Atwood, and Angela Carter, all with a distinctive green spine synonymous with Virago. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, both cloth boards and wrapper are lovely, with only minor shelf wear to the spine heads and tails. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.