Virago Changing The World One Page at a Time

Despite the 1960s freelove and alternative culture many women found that their lives and expectations had barely altered But by the 1970s the Womens Liberation Movement was causing seismic shifts in the march of the worlds events and womens 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 womens literature