Issue No. 11, September 2002
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke, Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis,
Sarah M. Hall, Nena Skrbic, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Statue of Edith Cavell, St Martin’s Place, near Trafalgar Square
‘Their own taxi was held up. It stopped dead under a statue: the lights shone on its cadaverous pallor.
‘“Always reminds me of an advertisement of sanitary towels,” said Peggy, glancing at the figure of a woman in nurse’s uniform holding out her hand.
‘Eleanor was shocked for a moment. …
‘“The only fine thing that was said in the war,” she said aloud, reading the words cut on the pedestal.
‘“It didn’t come to much,” said Peggy sharply.’
(The Years, Hogarth Press [1937], 363)
Photographs on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
Letters to Leigh Ashton …… Virginia Woolf 4
Note …… Stephen Barkway 6
‘I Must Not Settle into a Figure?E Woolf and Celebrity Culture …… Kathleen M. Helal 8
(Im)possible Translations of The Waves …… Christine Renaudin & Suzanne Toczyski 22
A Different Hearing: Voicing Night and Day …… Elicia Clements 32
Echoes of Ulysses in Mrs. Dalloway …… Hilary Newman 40
Meeting Virginia …… Els Harmsen 48
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 50
Reviews
Approaches to Teaching Woolf’s To the Lighthouse …… Stuart N. Clarke 55
Before Bloomsbury: The 1890s Diaries of Three Kensington Ladies …… Vanessa Curtis 57
Woolf: A Portrait in Song …… Vanessa Curtis 60
Room: An Adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Writings …… Margaret Gosden 65
‘The Best Time of Our Lives: Virginia Woolf’s Cornwall?E…… Stephen Barkway 69
Books received 70
Report
The Voyage Out: The First Annual Study Day (2002) …… Janfarie Skinner 71
For members
Fourth Annual General Meeting 73
Annual Study Day 2003 74
Society events 75
Other events 75
Society publications 76
Instructions for contributors Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 12, January 2003
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall,
Nena Skrbic, Sheila M. Wilkinson
Wrapper: Monks House garden from Leonard’s study
‘I’m always losing him [Leonard] in the garden. He’s up a tree, or behind a hedge.’
(Letters, no. 3173, 18 September [1936])
Photographs on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Virginia Woolf Memorial Appeal …… Inside front wrapper
Fifth Annual General Meeting …… 3
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
Correspondence between Helena Swanwick, May Morris, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf ……Vanessa Curtis 4
Leonard’s Vegetable Empire: A History of the Garden at Monks House …… Elisa Kay Sparks 10
Empire and Elveden: New Light on The Waves …… Heidi Stalla 20
The Unique Brushstrokes of Virginia Woolf’s Style in Between the Acts …… Jana Carlisle 30
A Personal Introduction to Modernism …… Mary Ellen Foley 39
Society publications …… 41
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 42
Virginia Woolf and the Visible World …… Emily Dalgarno 46
Two Weddings: One Church …… Sheila M. Wilkinson 47
Reviews
Moments of Being (Pimlico) …… Stephen Barkway 48
Virginia Woolf’s Women …… Marion Dell 49
Who was Dr Jackson? …… Lyndall Gordon 52
Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings …… Rebeca Poal 54
Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910–1939 …… Kathleen M. Helal 57
Classic Women’s Short Stories …… Nena ·krbi?–k.t.e 60
Orlando ballet …… Jenny Thompson 61
On Being Ill (Paris Press) …… Stephen Barkway 63
Eminent Victorians: A One-Act Drawing Room Comedy…… Lynne Newland 64
Report
Virginia in London …… Vanessa Curtis and Stephen Barkway 67
Acknowledgements …… Sheila M. Wilkinson 73
Letter to the Editor
‘Art that Shook the World: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando’ ….. Annie Crowther 74
For members
New Life Members …… 75
Society events …… 75
Other events …… 75
Annual Study Day 2003 …… 76
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 13, May 2003
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Porthminster Beach, St Ives, with Godrevy Lighthouse on the horizon
‘There on the sand not far from the lovers lay the old sheep’s skull without its jaw. Clean, white, wind-swept, sand-rubbed, a more unpolluted piece of bone existed nowhere on the coast of Cornwall. The sea holly would grow through the eye-sockets; it would turn to powder …’ Jacob’s Room (Hogarth Press, 1922), 13
Photographs on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway With thanks to Graham Clayton
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
Letters from Virginia
To: Frances Cornford ……. Virginia Woolf 4
To: S. S. Koteliansky ……. Virginia Woolf 5
Note on Frances Cornford ……. Stuart N. Clarke 7
Virginia Woolf and the Remaking of Victorian Britain ……. Grace Moore 8
The Olfactory Economy of Lesbian Desire in Virginia Woolf’s Shorter Fiction and Between the Acts ……. Heather Levy 18
Duncan Grant Exhibition: Request for Loans 26
‘Solid Objects’: A Portrait of the Artist as ‘an Immense Egoist’ ……. Nena ?krbi? 27
New book: Oxford & Cambridge (in German) 32
Society Publications 32
‘Virginia’s Women’ on Woman’s Hour ……. Sheila M. Wilkinson 33
Discovering Virginia ……. Maggie Humm 37
‘The Hours’
Overture to ‘The Hours’ ……. Vanessa Curtis 38
Apothecary and Wild Child: What Lies
Between the Acts of ‘The Hours’ and Mrs. Dalloway ……. Heather Levy 40
Virginia Woolf Today ……. Stephen Barkway 50
Reviews
Melymbrosia ……. Stuart N. Clarke 57
Between the Acts (Shakespeare Head) ……. Stuart N. Clarke and Stephen Barkway 61
The Open Book ……. John Mepham 66
The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact ……. Nadège Marsaleix 70
Julia Margaret Cameron (National Portrait Gallery) ……. Sarah M. Hall 71
Reports
Virginia Woolf Memorial Appeal ……. Stephen Barkway 76
VWSGB Reading Group Meeting: Jacob’s Room ……. Sarah M. Hall 77
Fourth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by David Bradshaw ……. Stephen Barkway 79
Notes and Queries
Lady Dorothy Nevill ……. Stephen Barkway 80
For members
Fifth Annual General Meeting 82
New Life Members 82
Society events 83
Other events 83
Reading Group 84
Instructions for contributors ……. Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 14, September 2003
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Roger Fry’s house, Durbins, Guildford, Surrey, 8 September 2002
‘The house on the outskirts of Guildford , with its lofty rooms, was airy and spacious–“I hate Elizabethan rooms with their low ceilings in spite of their prettiness, and I love the interiors of the baroque palaces of Italy”. He had designed the house himself, and he was proud of its proportions …’ Roger Fry, by Virginia Woolf (Hogarth Press, 1940), 163
Photographs on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway With thanks to Erika and Joachim Lukas, the owners of Durbins, for permission to take and use the photograph on the upper wrapper
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
Next issue ……. 3
A Letter to William Jackson ……. Virginia Woolf 4
Note ……. Stephen Barkway 5
Politics of the Sartorial Sign: Power and Representation ……. Nadège Marsaleix 7
Books received 11
The Lord Chief Justice and the Woolfs ……. Stuart N. Clarke 12
Virginia Woolf’s Changing Vision of the Soldier from Jacob Flanders to North Pargiter ……. Keri Barber 26
‘The Bug Taking Note’: Virginia Woolf’s Surrealist Sketch, ‘A Fantasy upon a Gentleman’ (1937) ….. nena Krbi 36
From Vita to Virginia ….. Sheila M. Wilkinson 43
Virginia Woolf Today ….. Stephen Barkway 45
Virginia Woolf and Burley ….. Vanessa Curtis 50
The 1901 Census ….. Stuart N. Clarke 54
Reviews
Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches ….. Sarah M. Hall 55
Death in the Life and Novels of Virginia Woolf; Virginia Woolf’s Wise and Witty Aunt; Virginia Woolf and Logan Pearsall Smith ….. Stephen Barkway 57
K: The Art of Love ….. Marion Dell 61
Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Modernist Literature ….. Sarah M. Hall 64
Tracing Echoes ….. Vanessa Curtis 66
The Spoken Word (CDs) ….. Stuart N. Clarke 68
Classic Serial: Night and Day (BBC) ….. Sarah M. Hall 70
Reports of Society events
South Downs Walk, 12 July 2003 ….. Lynne Newland 72
Night and Day: The Second Annual Study Day, 5 July 2003 ….. Theresa Daly 74
Virginia Woolf Memorial Appeal ….. Stephen Barkway 75
Notes and Queries
Sidney Keyes and Virginia Woolf ….. Doug Mackenzie 76
For members
Society events 79
Other events 79
New book: Wild Outbursts of Freedom 80
Life Members: An Apology 80
Society Publications ….. Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors ….. Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 15, January 2004
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Lady Aberconway by Cecil Beaton
‘You see her here sweeping up the great staircase [of 38 South Street], her dark head the neater in contrast with the amplitude of her skirts; her repose and distinction keeping all this pageantry properly subdued. … Do not imagine that her personality is lost amid so much picturesqueness. Her oval face has a grave calm beauty which dominates her dress.’ (Vogue, 20 February 1935, pp. 74, 75.)
Photograph on lower wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 2
‘What tiara did you wear?’: Lady Aberconway and Mrs Woolf ……. Stephen Barkway 4
Letters to Christabel McLaren ……. Virginia Woolf 22
Transcribed and edited by Stephen Barkway
Appendices
A: Two letters from 1965 ……. Christabel Aberconway
Leonard Woolf 64
B: The MacCarthy Fund notebook ……. Christabel McLaren 65
C: Four letters to Lytton Strachey ……. Christabel McLaren 67
D: From The Book of Beauty ……. Cecil Beaton 69
Virginia Woolf Today ……. Stephen Barkway 70
Reports of Society events
Virginia in Cornwall, September 2003 ……. Vanessa Curtis and Stephen Barkway 73
Acknowledgements ……. Sheila M. Wilkinson 80
Reading Group Meeting: Between the Acts ……. Sarah M. Hall 81
Reading Group Meeting: Orlando ……. Sarah M. Hall 84
Virginia Woolf Memorial Appeal ……. Stephen Barkway 87
For members
Society events 88
Society Publications ……. Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors ……. Inside rear wrapper