Issue No. 26, September 2007
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Detail of 1892–3 page from the Trinity House Visitors Book for Godrevy Lighthouse, St Ives, 1859–1934 in Printed Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photography(auction catalogue), Bonhams, London, 26 June 2007 (see pp. 37–8, below)
Photographs on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
Haiku: Roger Fry: A Biography …… Stuart N. Clarke 4
A Letter to Edmund Blunden …… Virginia Woolf 5
Note …… Stephen Barkway 6
Virginia Woolf, Desmond MacCarthy and Literary Character: A Newly-discovered Woolf Letter …… Julia Paolitto 9
Getting to Know Virginia …… Juliet Nicolson 19
Communication Networks: The Telephone, Books, and Portraits in Night and Day …… Sayaka Okumura 27
Julia Briggs (1943–2007) …… Stuart N. Clarke 36
Evidence for Going to the Lighthouse . . . Twice! …… Stephen Barkway 37
Letter to the Editor …… Sheila M. Wilkinson 38
Notes and queries
Friday, 13 November 1931 …… Stuart N. Clarke 39
The Learned Pig …… Stuart N. Clarke 42
Virginia Woolf Today—in Germany …… Ulrike König-Filip 45
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 48
J. K. Stephen and Prince Eddy …… Gill Lowe 50
Brownlee Jean Kirkpatrick (1919–2007) …… Stuart N. Clarke 60
Reviews
The Platform of Time …… Sarah M. Hall 63
Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies …… Mary Ellen Foley 65
A Sussex Guide: Bloomsbury in Sussex …… Vanessa Curtis 71
Reports
The 2007 Leslie Stephen Lecture, University of Cambridge …… Theresa Daly 73
‘Dora Carrington (1893–1932)’: Exhibition in New York …… Kathy Chamberlain 73
Reports of Society events
Reading Group Meeting: Roger Fry: A Biography …… Sarah M. Hall 77
Summer Study Day: Orlando: A Biography …… Claire Nicholson 79
Joanne Trautmann Banks (1941–2007) …… 84
For Members
Society events …… 84
Other events …… 84
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 27, January 2008
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: 65 St Margaret’s Road, Twickenham
‘That October [1914], they took lodgings at 65 St Margaret’s Road, Twickenham’
(Virginia Woolf, by James King [London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994], p. 220) (see p. 75, below)
Photographs on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Julia Ruth Briggs (1943–2007) …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
Letters from Virginia …… Virginia Woolf 4
Edited by Stephen Barkway
Competition …… 11
A Previously Unrecorded Review by Virginia Woolf …… Michael H. Whitworth 12
Some Poetic Plays …… 16
‘The roughness of the fibre’: Storytelling and Sensation in The Waves …… Gillian Beer 21
Haiku …… Peter Wallis 29
Flush as an Example of Virginia Woolf’s Art of Biography …… Hilary Newman 30
Who’s Afraid of Berta Ruck? …… Elaine Jackson 38
Books received …… 52
New Life Members …… 52
Finding Virginia Woolf: A Tribute to Bill Woodgate …… Karen Whitaker 53
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 54
Reviews
Mrs Woolf and the Servants …… Stuart N. Clarke 59
Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere …… Stuart N. Clarke 61
Locating Woolf …… Gail Toms 64
Virginia Woolf and Trauma …… Reina van der Wiel 68
A Life of One’s Own …… Karen Whitaker 72
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group in Twickenham …… Stephen Barkway 74
Reports of Society events
Reading Group Meeting: Freshwater: A Comedy …… Sarah M. Hall 75
Reading Group Meeting: The Complete Shorter Fiction, Early Stories …… Sarah M. Hall 78
For Members
Society events …… 82
‘In the Footsteps of Virginia Woolf’ …… 82
Other events …… 83
Society Publications…… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Separate 32-page Supplement
Julia Ruth Briggs, 1943–2007
Issue No. 28, May 2008
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke,
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Crouch Farm House, near Sevenoaks, Kent, where the Woolfs visited the Easdale family
‘And it began with the car getting fixed in the gate post, Mrs. Woolf coming in by the kitchen garden, and our manservant unscrewing the front bumper before Mr. Woolf could drive in’ (Middle Age 1885–1932 [London: Constable, 1935], p. 291)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
An ‘incredible goose’ and a ‘country flapper’: Virginia Woolf and the Easdales …… Stephen Barkway 5
Letters to Mrs G. E. Easdale …… Virginia Woolf 25
Transcribed and edited by Stephen Barkway
Appendix A: Calendar of Letters to Mrs G. E. Easdale 31
Appendix B: Letters from Vita Sackville-West to Mrs G. E. Easdale 32
The Secret Life of Minor Characters in Mrs. Dalloway …… Irena Ksiezopolska 36
Book received 47
Haiku: Mrs. Dalloway …… Stuart N. Clarke 47
Unmasking the First Page of Mrs. Dalloway: A Detective Story …… Michael Coram 48
Competition Result: Potted Biography …… Stephen Barkway 53
Rediscovering Virginia Woolf …… Vanessa Curtis 54
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 57
Thoby Stephen at Clifton College …… Vanessa Curtis 62
An Unpublished Letter from Leslie Stephen …… Vanessa Curtis 67
Forming a Leonard Woolf Society …… N. Sivasambu 70
Reviews
Virginia Woolf and the Victorians …… Tara Surry 71
The Prince, his Tutor and the Ripper …… Stuart N. Clarke 74
Who Was Sophie? …… Stephen Barkway 77
Report of Society event
Ninth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by Henrietta Garnett …… Stephen Barkway 81
For Members
Tenth Annual General Meeting …… 82
Society events …… 83
‘In the Footsteps of Virginia Woolf’ …… 83
Other events …… 84
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 29, September 2008
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke,
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Vicars’ Close, Wells, Somerset, 14 July 2008
‘I live in these lodgings about as near the sacred precincts as possible. Bells toll, & people shuffle down the Close to prayers. It is exactly the place in which some grey superstition should linger … The Cathedral of course dominates the whole place’ (A Passionate Apprentice, ‘Wells and Manorbier, August 1908’)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
Letters to Irene Biss …… Virginia Woolf 4
We breathed the same air, once . . . …… David Fairfax 6
The Paston Letters and ‘The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn’ …… Hilary Newman 7
Notes and Queries
Fly Loo in Orlando: A Biography …… Stuart N. Clarke 20
Where Exactly Were the Woolfs Married? …… Stuart N. Clarke 21
Vita Sackville-West’s Unrecorded TLS Reviews …… Stephen Barkway 24
Potted Biographies of Virginia Woolf …… 26
First Encounters with Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway …… Peter and John Wallis 29
Jenny Thompson (1937–2008) …… António Bivar 32
16 Vicars’ Close, Wells …… Stephen Barkway 35
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 36
Virginia Woolf Writes Ian Fleming …… Stuart N. Clarke 41
Appeal: St Mary, Stoke Newington …… 42
The English Family at Hyde Park Gate, 1943–1973 …… Sue (Edwina) Myers (edited by Vanessa Curtis) 44
Reviews
Selected Essays, by Virginia Woolf …… Dorinda J. Guest 52
Vanessa and Virginia, by Susan Sellers …… Elizabeth Wright 54
Reports
‘Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs …’ …… Stephen Barkway 58
Antiquarian Book Fair, Olympia …… Stephen Barkway 59
Virginia Woolf Conference, 2007 …… Jeanne V. Reed 61
Reports of Society events
Summer Study Day: The Waves …… Dianne Wood 66
Reading Group Meetings:
Carlyle’s House …… Sarah M. Hall 69
The London Scene …… Sarah M. Hall 72
‘The Death of the Moth’, ‘Street Haunting’, ‘Evening over Sussex’ …… Sarah M. Hall 75
For Members
Society events …… 79
Other events …… 79
Books received …… 80
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 30, January 2009
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke,
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: the Mosque of the Suleiman (the Blue ‘Mosque’) seen from a window in the gallery of Santa Sophia, Istanbul, 20 September 2008
‘Today more by chance than by design we stumbled—or more strictly shuffled, into the most beautiful mosque in Constantinople. And as the only other mosque that I know is S. Sophia, the audacity of this remark needs all the excuses that I can give it.’ (A Passionate Apprentice[Hogarth Press, 1990], 352)
Photographs on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
A Letter to Arnold Bennett …… Virginia Woolf 4
Note …… Stephen Barkway 6
‘A Few Cigarettes in Lilian’s Ash Tray’: Woolf’s Revisions to her Essays …… Stuart N. Clarke 11
Letting Only a Few Flowers Fall Upon her Tomb: Virginia Woolf and Aphra Behn …… Anne Greenfield 20
Approaches to Shakespeare: Virginia Woolf and Two of her Antecedents …… Hilary Newman 33
Lucy Cavendish College …… Lindsey Traub 44
A Note on Woolf and America …… Stuart N. Clarke 45
First Encounter with Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse …… F. Russell Clampitt 48
Haiku: A Room of One’s Own …… Stuart N. Clarke 49
Virginia Woolf (drawing) …… Catherine Rivard 50
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 51
Reviews
The Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury …… Karen Whitaker 57
The Virginia Woolf Writers’ Workshop …… Sarah M. Hall 59
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume Five…… Stephen Barkway 61
Reports of Society events
Paris in the Footsteps of Virginia Woolf …… Dorothy Parkinson-Robbie 68
Reading Group Meeting: ‘The Cinema’ and ‘The Sun and the Fish’ …… Sarah M. Hall 72
Publications received …… 76
For Members
Society events …… 78
In the Footsteps of Virginia Woolf in Provence 78
Other events …… 79
New Life Member …… 79
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper