Single journey only : a memoir

Owen, Ursula2019

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Ursula Owen has been a significant figure in the worlds of literature and free expression since the 1970s. A founding director of Virago Press in 1974, later becoming Joint Managing Director, she worked with a committed team as the company rapidly developed an international reputation, repositioning women writers and, over two decades, transforming both the literary canon and the contemporary publishing world. During the 1990s, Owen became a director of the Paul Hamlyn Fund, Cultural Policy Advisor to the Labour Party and Chief Executive of Index on Censorship. Yet behind these achievements lies the story of a refugee, a child who fled the Nazis, was educated at Putney High School, went up to Oxford, trained as a researcher in social services, travelled extensively, married and became a mother. In this memoir, we discover an extraordinary life where culture prevails against the tumultuous conflicts of the 20th-century, as well as the 21st.