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Paying tribute to Virago’s former directors

Ursula Owen, a former director of Virago Press.
Ursula Owen, a former director of Virago Press. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/The Guardian

Thank you to Ella Creamer for her rousing piece on Virago Press reaching 50 proud years of publishing (‘People still do not want women to succeed or be equal. While that is true, you need Virago’: 50 years of the warrior publisher, 28 June). Many of our authors and some of the early founders – Carmen Callil, Marsha Rowe and Rosie Boycott – were properly celebrated. We also want to pay tribute and thanks to the directors Ursula Owen and Harriet Spicer who, with Callil, took up the reins in the mid-1970s and made the dreams a reality, running Virago for nearly two decades. They are women to reckon with and to honour, alongside today’s Viragos. Onwards for another 50 years!
Lennie Goodings Chair, Virago
Sarah Savitt Publisher, Virago

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