Issue No. 1, January 1999 (Out of Print)
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Channer, Paul Evans, Sheila M. Wilkinson
Wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
Photographs on Issue No. 1 by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome to members ……. Stephen Barkway 3
First Annual General Meeting ……. 4
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 4
Seeds of the Society ……. Sheila M. Wilkinson 5
A Scene from the Past ……. Virginia Woolf 6
Letters from Virginia ……. Virginia Woolf 12
An Experiment in Fiction: ‘The thing that exists when we aren’t there’ [part I] ……. Rosemary Sumner 17
Virginia Woolf’s Photography ……. Maggie Humm 19
Golden Light and Substance: ‘The Prose of the World’ in Virginia Woolf’s Novels ……. Carole Rodier 22
Identity in ‘The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection’ ……. Rachael Holmes 25
Virginia Woolf and Eccentricity – A Way of Life, or Just a ‘Moment of Being’? ……. Vanessa Channer 28
‘We Are Walking to the Strand to Buy a Pencil’ ……. Ursula Behringer 3l
Wyndham Lewis’s Satires on Virginia Woolf ……. Lindsay Martin 32
‘The Porch’, Cambridge ……. Alister Raby 36
Virginia Woolf and Rodmell: A Denizen’s View ……. Pauline Cheny 39
Taking Over Talland House ……. Sue Bedford 41
Virginia Woolf’s Blurbs ……. Stephen Barkway 43
Reviews
Orlando: A Biography, Shakespeare Head Press ……. Stephen Barkway 44
Flush, Oxford World’s Classics …….Stuart N. Clarke 46
Granite and Rainbow: The Hidden Life of Virginia Woolf……. Stephen Barkway 48
Julia Margaret Cameron ‘s Women ……. Vanessa Channer 51
Woolf at the Door: Duckworth ……. Stuart N. Clarke 52
Mrs Dalloway – the Film ……. Vanessa Channer 53
Virginia Woolf: Five Short Stories – Audiotapes ……. Stuart N. Clarke 56
Books received 57
Reports
Virginia Woolf: Her Reception in Europe ……. Stuart N. Clarke 58
Virginia Woolf and her Context ……. Sheila M. Wilkinson 61
For members
Competitions ……. 63
Reading Groups ……. 64
Society events ……. 65
Other events ……. 66
VW on the WWW ……. 66
Members’ (commercial) interests ……. 67
Next issue ……. 68
Issue No. 2, July 1999
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke, Stephen Barkway,
Vanessa Channer, Paul Evans,
Nena Skrbic, Sheila M. Wilkinson
Wrapper designed by Stephen Barkway
Photograph on Issue No.2. Godrevy Lighthouse by Sheila M. Wilkinson
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
Letters to the Spiras ……. Virginia Woolf 4
Food Imagery in The Waves ……. Ros Peers 13
Point of View in ‘Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street’ ……. Stuart N. Clarke 18
Smith College ……. Stuart N. Clarke 21
An Experiment in Fiction: ‘The thing that exists when we aren’t there’ [part 2] ……. Rosemary Sumner 22
TLS 5000th issue ……. Sheila M. Wilkinson 28
A Newly-discovered Article ……. B. J. Kirkpatrick 28
Portuguese Translations of Virginia Woolfi An Addendum ……. Stuart N. Clarke 29
‘Putting Words on the Backs of Rhythm’ : Translating Woolf ……. Merete Alfsen 32
Mrs Stephen in The Mausoleum Book and Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse ……. Hilary Newman 37
‘House of All the Deaths’ : 22 Hyde Park Gate ……. Sarah M. Hall 42
Hyde Park Gate in 1894 ……. Stuart N. Clarke 46
‘Who Lived at Alfoxton?’ ……. Sheila M. Wilkinson 48
Blurbs: Flush: A Biography ……. 51
Virginia Woolf Today ……. Stephen Barkway 52
George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands ……. Hilary Glasscock 54
Reviews
Flush: A Biography, Shakespeare Head Press ……. Stuart N. Clarke 55
Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room: The Holograph Draft ……. Ruth Webb 56
Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf ……. Marion Dell 61
The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf ……. Pamela Priske 64
Woolf Studies Annual, Volume 4; Virginia Woolf and her Influences ……. Stuart N. Clarke 66
Who’s Afraid of Leonard Woolf? ……. Stuart N. Clarke 68
Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury ……. Stephen Barkway 69
Books received ……. 7 1
Reports
Vita/Virginia/Orlando/Knole ……. Stephen Barkway 72
Two of Me Now-Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf ……. Stephen Barkway 73
Virginia Woolf and the Body ……. Stuart N. Clarke 75
Virginia Woolf as the Common Reader ……. Sheila M. Wilkinson 77
Some Kind of Whole Made Shimmering Fragments ……. Gisela Philippi 77
Vita & Virginia ……. Vanessa Channer 79
For members
First Annual General Meeting ……. 82
Letter from a member ……. 82
Reading Group ……. 83
Virginia Woolf Quiz ……. 84
Society event ……. 84
Other events ……. 84
VW on the WWW ……. 85
Photography competition ……. 86
Members (commercial) interests ……. 86
Alliance of Literary Societies ……. 86
Next issue ……. 87
Issue No. 3, January 2000
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis (formerly Channer), Paul Evans,
Nena Skrbic, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper designed and photograph on wrapper by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Second Annual General Meeting ……. 3
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
Letters from Virginia Virginia Woolf ……. 4
Clothing and the Body: Motifs of Female Distress in Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield ……. Rachael Holmes 9
Virginia Woolf and the Body: Corporeality, Metaphor, and the In-Between ……. Leena Kore Schröder 15
Continuity and Destruction in Between the Acts ……. Hilary Newman 21
Septimus’ Suicide ……. Laura Sager 26
She ‘Will Really Be an Author in Time’: Virginia Stephen’s Early Facility with Language ……. Sarah M. Hall 29
Returning to St Ives: Virginia Woolf and Cornwall ……. Marion Dell 34
Virginia Woolf’s Bengalese Ancestor ……. Jean-Claude Féray 37
Talking with Quentin ……. Kathy Chamberlain 39
‘Hogarth Living Poet’ Publishing to the End ……. Peter Wallis 43
Virginia Woolf’s Blurbs: The Years ……. 44
Virginia Woolf Today ……. Stephen Barkway 45
Dwelling: a Poem ……. Linda Ewbank 48
Reviews
The Years, Penguin Books ……. Stuart N. Clarke 50
Art and Affection ……. Lynne Tanton 52
Virginia Woolf: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ……. Vanessa Curtis 55
Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf ……. Sally Zigmond 57
Friends & Apostles Stuart N. Clarke 61
Vanessa Bell: A Life of Painting ……. Sally Zigmond 62
The Bloomsbury Artists ……. Stephen Barkway 64
The Hours, by Michael Cunningham ……. Linda J. Langham 67
Mr. Dalloway ……. Linda J. Langham 69
Pace University Press ……. Stuart N. Clarke 71
Reports
Virginia in Cornwall ……. Vanessa Curtis 72
Vita & Virginia at the BLT ……. Stuart N. Clarke 77
Letters to the Editor
Virginia Woolf’s Photography ……. Vara Neverow 79
The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf ……. Jane Goldman 80
Who’s Afraid of Leonard Woolf? ……. Irene Coates 83
For members
Events 85
VW on the WWW 86
Stella Duckworth 86
Members’ (commercial) interests 86
Next issue 87
Issue No. 4, May 2000
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Paul Evans, Nena Skrbic, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper designed and photograph on wrapper by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
A Letter to Crosby Gaige ……. Virginia Woolf 4
On Not Speaking Out: Jacob ‘s Room
as a Conflation of Modernism and Feminism ……. Hiroko Takai 7
Lily as One of the Women Painters of the St Ives School ……. Masami Usui 13
Virginia Woolf’s Broadcasts and her Recorded Voice ……. Stuart N. Clarke 17
Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Art ……. Lindsay Staniforth 20
‘A Kind Old Walrus’ (Arnold Bennett) ……. Mark A. Bloomfield 27
Remembering Leonard Woolf ……. Catherine Moore 35
Interview with Bet Inglis ……. Ros Peers 37
Virginia Woolf’s Blurbs: Roger Fry 40
Virginia Woolf Today ……. Stephen Barkway 42
St George’s Gardens: a Poem Sandra Widmark Vimar 47
Kew Gardens Revisited – A Bloomsbury Story ……. Ana Maria Navales 50
Letter to the Editor: Pace University Press ……. Mark Hussey 54
Book reviews
Virginia Woolf Icon ……. Stephen Barkway 55
Virginia Woolf and the Great War ……. Sally Zigmond 59
Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?; Where Was Rebecca Shot?……. Stuart N. Clarke 61
Bloomsbury at Home ……. Vanessa Curtis 63
Vita Sackville-West:.A Bibliography ……. Stuart N. Clarke 64
‘Celebrating Bloomsbury’
The Art of Bloomsbury (Tate) ……. Vanessa Curtis 68
Quentin Bell: A Man of Many Arts ……. Pauline Holgate 69
Art Made Modern (Courtauld) ……. Rachel Tranter 71
Bloomsbury Art and Design (Bloomsbury Workshop) ……. Vanessa Curtis 73
Meeting Virginia at the Tate ……. Ian Griffiths 73
Reports
Sir Leslie Stephen & Derivative Immortality ……. Sheila M. Wilkinson 78
First Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by Gillian Beer ……. Stephen Barkway 79
For members
Second Annual General Meeting ……. 80
Membership Survey: Report ……. 81
Photography Competition ……. 82
Society events ……. 83
Other events ……. 83
VW on the WWW ……. 83
Instructions for contributors ……. 84
Issue No. 5, September 2000
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Paul Evans, Nena Skrbic, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper designed and photograph on wrapper by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
‘Three Jews’ ……. Leonard Woolf 4
A Letter to Charles E. Brumwell ……. Virginia Woolf 13
Through the Realist Frame: ‘Phyllis and Rosamond’ and the Masculine ‘I’ ……. Nena Skrbic 15
Dates in Orlando: A Biography and the Manuscript ……. Tadanobu Sakamoto 23
The Years as a ‘Condition of England Novel’ ……. Hilary Newman 28
Interview with Nigel Nicolson ……. Ros Peers 33
Rosamond Peers, 1951–2000 ……. Sandra Halsey 38
Virginia Woolf’s Blurbs: Three Guineas ……. 39
Virginia Woolf Today ……. Stephen Barkway 41
On Reading A Writer ‘s Diary: a Poem ……. Sandra Widmark Vimar 45
Desert Island Discs ……. Duncan Grant 46
Letter to the Editor ……. Rosemary Sumner 47
Highgate Cemetery
The Restoration of the Stephen Graves in 2000 ……. Vanessa Curtis 48
A Visit to Highgate Two Years Ago ……. Arlene Ballmaier 53
Reviews
A Room of One ‘s Own and Other Essays (Folio Society) ……. Stephen Barkway 58
Ancestral Houses ……. Stuart N. Clarke 60
Reading Virginia Woolf’s Essays and Journalism ……. Marion Dell 62
The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf ……. Stephen Barkway 65
Virginia Woolf: Reading the Renaissance ……. Rachael Holmes 67
Virginia Woolf (Nicholas Marsh) ……. Jane McSherry 69
Ravenous Identity ……. Ros Peers 72
Close & Affectionate Friends ……. Stuart N. Clarke 76
Ex Libris ……. Vanessa Curtis 77
To the Lighthouse (BBC Radio 4) ……. Vanessa Curtis 78
Books received ……. 80
For members
Wave, Atom, Dinosaur.’ Woolf’s Science ……. 81
Society events ……. 81
Other events ……. 82
Call for Papers ……. 82
Instructions for contributors ……. 84