ABSTRACT
One of the most significant feminist projects of the last twenty-five years has been the reissuing of long out-of-print books by women authors. Many have been gathering dust on library shelves for dozens, sometimes hundreds of years. Most had long since ceased to make any money for anyone. But Virago and other feminist presses that grew up with the second wave of feminism, have put many of these books back into circulation. Now easily available in good quality paperback editions they are read for pleasure, not just among scholars, though scholars were often the first to create the demand for these books by finding them, writing about them and bringing them to university course lists and to public attention.
