Issue No. 31, May 2009
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chief Editor)
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: The east side of Gordon Square, c. 1905 (for the complete photograph, see pp. 38–9)
‘Private houses in London are apt to be much of a muchness. The door opens on a dark hall; from the dark hall rises a narrow staircase; off the landing opens a double drawing-room, and in this double drawing-room are … three long windows giving upon the street.’ (‘Portrait of a Londoner’, The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. V [Hogarth Press, 2009], 593)
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
A Letter to Alys Russell …… Virginia Woolf 4
Note …… Stephen Barkway 5
The Julia Briggs Memorial Prize
Report on the Competition …… Ruth Webb 8
Common Readers in Wartime …… Alexandra Harris 10
Dating the Action of The Voyage Out …… Stuart N. Clarke 17
Virginia Stephen’s Visit to Lisbon in 1905 …… Stuart N. Clarke 22
First Encounter with Virginia Woolf: A Writer’s Diary …… Anthea Arnold 28
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 29
The 1911 Census …… Stuart N. Clarke 34
Residents of the East Side of Gordon Square …… Stuart N. Clarke 40
This Perpetual Fight
Review of the Exhibition Catalogue …… Stephen Barkway 42
Reflections on This Perpetual Fight …… Karen R. Daubert 45
Reviews
The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume V …… Mary Ellen Foley 49
James Kenneth Stephen; A History of Monks House and Village of Rodmell; The Rodmell Papers …… Sarah M. Hall 54
Anne Thackeray Ritchie …… Ruth Webb 57
Report
The 2008 Leslie Stephen Lecture, University of Cambridge …… Claire Nicholson 61
Haiku …… Peter Wallis 63
Morley College Classes 1906–7 64
Reports of Society events
Tenth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by Jane de Gay …… Stephen Barkway 65
Reading Group Meetings: ‘On Being Ill’ …… Sarah M. Hall 67
‘How Should One Read a Book?’ & ‘Poetry, Fiction and the Future’ …… Sarah M. Hall 70
For Members
Eleventh Annual General Meeting …… 74
Society event …… 75
Society event open to non-Members …… 75
Other events …… 76
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 32, September 2009
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chief Editor)
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Studio photograph of Winifred Holtby by an unknown photographer
Holtby ‘is far too kind, gentle, and well meaning to hurt a hair on the hinder leg of a fly’ (Letters, no. 2429 to Ethel Smyth, [6 September 1931]).
For consent to reproduce this photograph, which is the Winifred Holtby Collection at Hull Local Studies Library, we are grateful to Professor Marion Shaw, the literary executor of the Winifred Holtby Estate.
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
Virginia Woolf, Winifred Holtby and her Virginia Woolf …… Stephen Barkway 5
The texts of the letters 11
Letters to Winifred Holtby (transcribed and edited by Stephen Barkway) …… Virginia Woolf 12
Common Readers and Critics: Virginia Woolf in Conversation …… Alice Wood 25
Virginia Woolf, The Common Readers and the Common Reader …… Elizabeth Wright 31
Orts, Scraps and Fragments: Troilus and Cressida and Between the Acts …… Hilary Newman 36
The Hotel Borges: A Correction …… Stuart N. Clarke 48
Virginia Woolf’s French Ancestors: Legends and Facts …… Ronald Lessens 49
Notes and Queries
A Footnote to the 1940 Diary …… Stuart N. Clarke 59
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 60
Haiku …… Tadanobu Sakamoto 64
Reviews
Imagining Virginia Woolf …… Stuart N. Clarke 65
Godrevy Light …… Stuart N. Clarke 68
The Omega Workshops and the Hogarth Press: An Artful Fugue …… Stephen Barkway 71
Report
Virginia Woolf at the University of Essex …… John Wallis 73
Report of Society event
Summer Study Day: The Years …… Amber K. Regis 75
For Members
Society events 79
Society Reading Group 79
New Life Member 79
Other events 80
Society Publications Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 33, January 2010
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chief Editor)
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
Upper wrapper: 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden—see Editorial
Photograph by Stuart N. Clarke, 5 September 2009
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The View from Monks House Garden …… Stephen Barkway 3
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 4
Haiku: Flush: A Biography …… Stuart N. Clarke 5
A Letter to Miss Batchelder …… Virginia Woolf 6
Note …… Stuart N. Clarke 6
A Common Reader Chases Woolf’s Cows …… Jennifer Ristau 8
A Man in a Park …… AnneMarie Bantzinger 13
Correspondence between Julia Stephen and George Smith, 1885–94 …… Vanessa Curtis 19
Virginia Woolf’s French Ancestor: New Facts …… Ronald Lessens 33
Among the Bookstacks …… Sandra Inskeep-Fox 36
Notes and Queries
The Death of Mr Valpy …… Stuart N. Clarke 38
Geraldine Jewsbury’s Grave …… Stuart N. Clarke 39
Aunt Anny and the Bomb …… Stuart N. Clarke 42
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 44
Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, Esq. …… Stephen Barkway 49
James Russell Lowell’s Poem to Virginia Stephen …… Vanessa Curtis 50
An Unpublished Letter from Vanessa Bell at St Ives in 1905 …… Vanessa Curtis 53
Reviews
The Bloomsbury Group (CDs) …… Stuart N. Clarke 57
Book received …… 60
British Modernism and Censorship …… Ruth Webb 61
The Unspoken Truth …… Anthea Arnold 66
Reports of Society events
Virginia Woolf in Provence …… Susanne Forrest 69
Reading Group Meeting: ‘Introductory Letter to Margaret Llewelyn Davies’ …… Sarah M. Hall 71
For Members
Society events …… 75
Other events …… 75
New Life Member …… 76
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 34, May 2010
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chief Editor)
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
Upper wrapper: Virginia Woolf (detail)
Photograph by Barbara Strachey, 1938
© National Portrait Gallery, London (for the complete photograph, see p. 37)
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
Letters to Evan Charteris …… Virginia Woolf 4
Note …… Stephen Barkway 6
Virginia Woolf: Her Quaker Aunt and her Fiction …… Hilary Newman 12
Virginia Woolf and Detachment …… Ann-Marie Priest 23
What Forster Got Right about Woolf …… Matthew Macer-Wright 28
The Common Reader Today …… M. L. Banting 33
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 38
Virginia Woolf ‘authorportrait’ …… Carl Köhler 44
Reviews
Virginia Woolf: An MFS Reader …… Alexandra Harris 45
Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science …… Gillian Beer 49
Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf …… Alice Wood 51
Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’: A Reader’s Guide …… Lone Christensen 55
Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness …… Reina van der Wiel 59
Glamour in Six Dimensions …… Ruth Webb 62
The Great Silence, 1918–1920 …… John Holding 68
The Quest for Luriana …… Stephen Barkway 73
Haiku: The Years …… Stuart N. Clarke 74
Report
‘A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections’ …… Norma Munson 75
Report of Society event
Eleventh Annual Birthday Lecture, by Laura Marcus …… Stephen Barkway 76
For Members
Twelfth Annual General Meeting …… 78
Society events …… 79
Society event open to non-Members …… 79
Other events …… 80
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 35, September 2010
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chief Editor)
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: A selection of ‘modernist magazines’ in which Virginia Woolf was published.
‘my instinct is to fight shy of magazines which have a declared character. Why lay down laws about imaginative writing?’
(Letters, no. 3414, to John Lehmann, [early July 1938])
Photograph on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
Letters to R. W. Wright …… Virginia Woolf 4
Note …… Stephen Barkway 5
Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Library at Washington State University …… Michèle Barrett 7
‘Wood is a pleasant thing to think about’ …… Benjamin Harvey 12
Notes and Queries
Another View of Florence by Vanessa Bell? …… Stuart N. Clarke & Stephen Barkway 16
The Dreadnought Talk Typescript: Chronology …… Stuart N. Clarke 21
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 22
Reviews
Virginia Woolf’s Bloomsbury, Vol. 2 …… Kim Salmons 27
Virginia Woolf’s Bloomsbury, Vol. 1 …… Karen S. Hedger-Breeds 31
The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf, second edition …… Emma Wood 35
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Vol. 1 …… Stephen Barkway 38
The Sultan of Zanzibar …… Stuart N. Clarke 44
Leslie Stephen as Mountaineer …… Stephen Barkway 49
Desmond and Molly MacCarthy …… Stephen Barkway 51
Virginia Woolf: Fashion and Literary Modernity …… Kim Salmons 52
Virginia Woolf’s ‘Common Reader’ …… Amber K. Regis 57
Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History …… Nadège Marsaleix 62
I Do I Undo I Redo …… Catherine Sandbach-Dahlström 64
Approaches to Teaching Woolf’s ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ …… Isabel M. Andrés 69
Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View …… Laura Marcus 74
Report of Society event
Summer Study Day: Between the Acts …… John Wallis 77
Julia Briggs Memorial Prize 2011 80
For Members
Ann Barber (1939–2010) …… Sheila M. Wilkinson 81
The View from Monks House Garden: Update …… Stephen Barkway 82
Society events …… 82
Other events …… 83
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper