Virago Interviews

One or two of you were interested in finding out who was interviewing whom (or whom who, or something. Colin?) in the Virago book Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers (ed. Mary Chamberlain) which I mentioned yesterday. What am I here for but to oblige? The 'new' Virago writers (bearing in mind this was published in 1988) interview the 'old' Virago writers - some of these appeared elsewhere, but nevertheless they fit well in with the others. Lots of names I don't recognise, I confess, but avenues to explore...


Writers in the first column are interviewees; in the second, interviewers.

Maya Angelou - Rosa Guy
Natalya Baranskaya - Pieta Monks
Marjorie Barnard - Zoe Fairbairns
Dora Birtles - Joyce Nicholson
Kathleen Dayus - Mary Chamberlain
Elizabeth Hardwick - Helen McNeil
Dorothy Hewett - Drusilla Modjeska
Yvonne Kapp - Sally Alexander
Molly Keane - Polly Devlin
Mary Lavin - Eavan Boland
Rosamund Lehmann - Janet Watts
Paule Marshall - Mary Helen Washington
Naomi Mitchison - Alison Hennegan
Grace Paley - Cora Kaplan
Angela Rodaway - Carolyn Steedman
Dora Russell - Cathy Porter
Phyllis Shand Allfrey - Polly Pattullo
Mary Stott - Liz Heron
Eudora Welty - Hermione Lee
Rebecca West - Marina Warner