Issue No. 16, May 2004
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Talland House
‘we’ve been rambling over our old haunts — We crept into Talland House itself yesterday, and found it wonderfully done up and spick and span, and all the garden brimming with flowers and rock gardens — very unlike what it was in our day’ (Letters of Virginia Woolf, no. 704, [mid-April 1914]).
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
In lieu of an Editorial …… Virginia Woolf 3
Virginia Woolf Memorial Appeal …… Stephen Barkway 4
A Letter to Mr [John G.?] Wilson …… Virginia Woolf 5
Note …… Stephen Barkway 5
The Waves: An Experiment in Form ‘Retrieved … from Formlessness with Words’ …… Rosemary Sumner 9
Virginia Woolf’s Obituaries in Japan on the Brink of the Pacific War …… Hitomi Yoshio 18
Four Early Short Stories: The Victorian and the Modern Worlds …… Hilary Newman 24
Talland House: Newly Discovered Material …… Vanessa Curtis 34
My Discovery Story …… Nancy Scholem 37
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 39
Frances Partridge, 1900–2004 …… Stuart N. Clarke 42
Letter to the Editor: The Hours versus ‘The Hours’: A Take on Mrs. Dalloway …… Sandra Widmark Vimar 43
Books received 46
Reviews
Monday or Tuesday (Hesperus Press) …… Stuart N. Clarke 47
Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell: Remembering St Ives …… Vanessa Curtis 49
Georgian Bloomsbury …… Stuart N. Clarke 51
Modernist Women and Visual Cultures …… Sarah M. Hall 53
Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes Marion Dell 56
Period Piece (Clear Books) …… Stuart N. Clarke 60
Anny …… Stuart N. Clarke 62
DVDs: Orlando, Mrs Dalloway, The Hours …… Stephen Barkway 64
Freshwater at the Orange Tree Theatre …… Sarah M. Hall 68
Reports of Society events
Fifth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by Lyndall Gordon …… Stephen Barkway 71
‘Duncan Grant in Twickenham’ (exhibition) …… Ian Griffiths 72
Reading Group Meeting: To the Lighthouse …… Sarah M. Hall 75
For members
Sixth Annual General Meeting …… 78
Society events …… 78
Other events …… 79
New Life Member: Ralph Drake, 1936–2003 …… 80
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 17, September 2004
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Virginia Woolf Memorial, Tavistock Square Gardens, 3 July 2004
‘I do long for some tangible (that’s not the word) memorial to be dedicated to her — just by writing to friends, if one writes to enough friends, such a surprisingly large sum can materialize.’ (Letter from Christabel Aberconway to Leonard Woolf, 28 April [1941]; see VWB15, p. 63)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial Stuart N. Clarke 3
Unveiling the Virginia Woolf Memorial
Unveiling …… Anne Olivier Bell 4
Reaction …… Ian Griffiths 5
Address …… Hermione Lee 5
‘Tavistock Square Snapshots’ …… Virginia Woolf 7
A Letter to Catherine Carswell …… Virginia Woolf 13
Note …… Stephen Barkwzay 14
Charles and John, or, On Letting Go and Holding On …… Benjamin Harvey 17
Books received 26
Bloomsbury and the Literature of Empire: Virginia Woolf and her Voyage Out …… June Harwood 27
Issues of Authority and Authoritarianism in The Common Reader: Second Series …… Katerina Koutsantoni 35
You’ve Never Read Virginia Woolf! …… Pat Hathaway 44
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 46
Notes and Queries
The Old Woman’s Song in Mrs. Dalloway …… Stuart N. Clarke 50
The Ciphers in A Passionate Apprentice …… Vanessa Curtis 53
Reviews
The London Scene (Snowbooks) …… Stuart N. Clarke 55
The Mrs. Dalloway Reader …… Stuart N. Clarke 58
Virginia Woolf & the Raverats …… Stephen Barkway 61
Virginia Woolf’s Illnesses …… Malcolm Ingram 64
A Passionate Apprentice (Pimlico) …… Vanessa Curtis 68
A Concise Companion to Modernism …… Sarah M. Hall 70
Mansfield …… Vanessa Curtis 73
Reports of Society events
Reading Group Meeting: Three Guineas …… Sarah M. Hall 75
Reading Group Meeting: Mrs. Dalloway …… Sarah M. Hall 77
Summer Study Day: Jacob’s Room …… Ron Putnam 79
Report
The 2004 Leslie Stephen Lecture, University of Cambridge …… John Wallis 81
For members
Society events …… 83
Other events …… 83
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 18, January 2005
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Sissinghurst Tower, 5 September 2001
‘Over my head the years and centuries sweep,
The years of childhood flown,
The centuries unknown;
I dream; I do not weep.’
(Sissinghurst, by V. Sackville-West)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
A Letter from Virginia …… Virginia Woolf 4
Note …… Stuart N. Clarke 5
Nigel Nicolson (1917–2004)
My Father …… Adam Nicolson 6
Address at Nigel Nicolson’s funeral …… Adam Nicolson 8
Nigel Nicolson: A Memoir …… Katherine C. Hill-Miller 10
Recollections of Nigel Nicolson …… Sheila M. Wilkinson 13
Book received 14
Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: Woolf’s Illustrated Books …… Stuart N. Clarke 15
A Glimpse of Vanessa Bell through Two Sets of Letters …… Ruth O. Saxton 20
A House Detective at 46 Gordon Square …… Vanessa Curtis 26
A Literary Pilgrimage …… Frederick Lewis 31
First and Second Encounters with Virginia Woolf …… Ron Putnam 34
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 36
‘I’m Virginia, grab me!’ …… Ian Griffiths 40
Notes and Queries
In ‘Amonhon’ with no Baedeker …… Stuart N. Clarke 41
Reviews
Jacob’s Room (Shakespeare Head) …… Stuart N. Clarke and Stephen Barkway 43
Wild Outbursts of Freedom …… Hilary Newman 47
Woolf Across Cultures …… Sarah M. Hall 51
The Wise Virgins (Persephone) …… Sarah M. Hall 54
Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press …… Hilary Newman 57
Dora Carrington, Fact into Fiction …… Hilary Newman 58
Reports of Society events
Virginia in Yorkshire, September 2004 …… Marion Dell 60
Acknowledgements …… Sheila M. Wilkinson 66
Virginia in Westmoreland …… Sheila M. Wilkinson 67
Autumn Study Day: The Complete Shorter Fiction …… Patricia M. Shaw 68
Reading Group Meeting: The Diary, Vol. I …… Sarah M. Hall 71
Reading Group Meeting: Flush …… Sarah M. Hall 74
For members
Society events …… 78
Other events …… 78
‘The Writer in the Garden’ …… Ian Griffiths 79
Literary Hyper-Concordance …… Sarah M. Hall 80
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 19, May 2005
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke,
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Laughton Place, 6 September 2001
‘It seemed, that sunny morning, so beautiful, so peaceful; & as if it had endless old rooms.
So I came home boiling with the idea of buying it …’
(Diary, 20 September 1927)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
A Letter to Logan Pearsall Smith …… Virginia Woolf 4
Note …… Stuart N. Clarke 4
Virginia Woolf’s Unidentified Contributions to the Nation & Athenæum …… Stuart N. Clarke 8
On Emancipatory Legacies: A Séance …… Christine Froula 12
Book received 19
Laughton Place: A Knole of Woolf’s Own? …… Stephen Barkway 20
Looking for a Postcard from Scarborough: Woolf’s Yorkshire Connections …… Marion Dell 26
A Simple Darting Melody: Birds in the Works of Virginia Woolf …… Hannah Leslie 32
A New Relation between the Narrator and the Reader in Jacob’s Room …… Tadanobu Sakamoto 41
A Portable Friend …… Rebeca Poal 48
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 50
Letter to the Editor …… AnneMarie Bantzinger 55
Reviews
Flush: A Biography (Persephone) …… Stephen Barkway and Sarah M. Hall 57
Trespassing Boundaries …… Sarah M. Hall 60
Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield: A Creative Rivalry…… Vanessa Curtis 64
Reports of Society events
Sixth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by Anna Snaith …… Stephen Barkway 66
Reading Group Meeting: The Diary, Vol. II …… Sarah M. Hall 68
Reading Group Meeting, The Complete Shorter Fiction,1917–21 Section …… Sarah M. Hall 71
Report
Leonard Woolf Centennial …… Sarah M. Hall 75
For Members
Seventh Annual General Meeting …… 77
Society events …… 78
Other events …… 78
New Life Member …… 79
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 20, September 2005
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke,
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
Upper wrapper: Gate-house or ‘Keep’ to Kingston Barracks (1874–5), King’s Road,
Kingston-upon-Thames
‘We went to Kingston Barracks, and after saying, I suppose to insult him, that L. had senile tremor, and suspecting a sham, they gave him complete exemption which they said was probably permanent.’ (Letters, no. 880, [17 October 1917])
‘Kingston Barracks this afternoon to get L.’s exemption card … We walked through the Park to Kingston, failed to get the card, & then had tea in Kingston …’ (Diary, 27 October 1917)
‘We took the Bus to Kingston; visited for the last time let us hope in our lives, the Recruiting Office, & after waiting in the familiar room with the two wooden benches, the towel hanging up & the khaki coat, L. was summoned, & given his paper which states that he is “permanently & totally disabled.” We suppose this might fetch £500 if sold.’ (Diary, 6 November 1917)
Kingston Barracks was demolished in 1962.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
A Letter to Boris Anrep …… Virginia Woolf 4
Note …… Stephen Barkway 5
The Art of Making Memories …… Sue Roe 9
The Significance of the Old Woman and her Song in Mrs. Dalloway …… Tadanobu Sakamoto 28
An Apprenticeship with Woolf …… Julie Singleton 33
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 35
King’s College Archive Centre, Cambridge 40
Reviews
Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life …… Sally Zigmond 41
Afterwords: Letters on the Death of Virginia Woolf …… Stephen Barkway 44
Virginia Woolf as Feminist …… Stuart N. Clarke 48
The Mrs. Dalloway Reader (paperback) …… Stuart N. Clarke 51
Virginia Woolf, by Michael Whitworth …… Julie Singleton 53
The Letters of Lytton Strachey …… Sarah M. Hall 58
A Note about Notes: Leo Charlton …… Stuart N. Clarke 62
Supplementary Index for Woolf/Stephen …… Stephen Barkway 63
Ham Spray: Lytton and Carrington’s Country Retreat …… Lynne Newland 65
Boris Anrep: The National Gallery Mosaics …… Stephen Barkway 66
Reports of Society events
‘Orlando at Knole’ …… Glenis Jones 70
Summer Study Day: Mrs. Dalloway …… Sarah M. Hall 73
South Downs Walk …… Stephen Barkway 76
Reading Group Meeting: Moments of Being …… Sarah M. Hall 77
Report
‘Bloomsbury and Beyond’, NPG …… Stephen Barkway 81
For Members
Society events …… 83
Other events …… 84
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper