Pandora Press is a UK feminist publishing imprint that was founded in 1983 by Philippa Brewster[1] at Routledge and Kegan Paul, with Dale Spender as editor-at-large.
[3] Among early Pandora Press titles were Spender's There's Always Been a Women's Movement This Century (1983) and Time and Tide Wait for No Man (1984), and other authors published by the imprint included Marge Piercy (Stone, Paper, Knife, 1983)[3] and Jeanette Winterson (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 1985, winner of the Whitbread Award for a first novel).
"[5] Also a commissioning editor for Pandora Press was Candida Lacey, who went on to become publisher of Myriad Editions for 15 years.
[8] As well as exploring the output of female writers of the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, whose work had been overlooked by male historians and literary critics, Spender produced an accompanying series for Pandora Press that featured such writers as Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Mary Hays and Mary Brunton.
On Gender and Writing, 1983, with contributors including Sara Maitland, Judith Kazantzis, Wendy Mulford, Libby Houston, Michèle Roberts, Angela Carter, Noel Greig, Rozsika Parker, Alison Hennegan, Jill Tweedie, Angela Phillips, Mary Stott, Penelope Shuttle, Peter Redgrove, Pam Gems, Eva Figes, Margaret Drabble and Fay Weldon),[9][10] and Cynthia Enloe (Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, 1989), among others.