Issue Nos 51 to 55

Issue No. 51, January 2016

ISSN 1465-2579

Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chair)
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin

Upper wrapper: Leith Hill Tower, Surrey
Photograph by Stuart N. Clarke, 19 July 2014
(see pp. 38–41 below)
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abbreviations of Virginia Woolf’s Works 3
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 4
Virginia Woolf’s ‘Bed-Books’ …… Stuart N. Clarke 6
Two Uncollected Letters from Virginia Woolf to the Newspapers …… Stuart N. Clarke 8
Between the Acts and E. M. Forster’s Pageants …… Hilary Newman 15
Thoby Stephen at Clifton College: A Closer View …… C. S. Knighton 25
Virginia Woolf’s Publications in Wartime — and After …… Stuart N. Clarke 30
Appendix 1: War Economy Books Tabulated 35
Appendix 2: Granite and Rainbow — A Warning 35

Notes and Queries
Leith Hill Tower, Surrey …… Stuart N. Clarke 38
Thinking about Literary Influence: ‘Ivy Gripped the Steps’ …… Stuart N. Clarke 41
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 44

Bloomsbury Bibliomania
A Book that Changed My Life …… Stuart N. Clarke 50
Forthcoming Conferences …… 54

Reviews
Virginia Woolf’s English Hours …… Anthea Arnold 55
Bloomsbury Heritage monographs …… Gerri Kimber 59
Vanessa and Her Sister …… Matthew Macer-Wright 63
Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf …… Sarah M. Hall 68
Godrevy: Views to a Lighthouse …… Stuart N. Clarke 72
The plan that wouldn’t go away …… Sarah M. Hall 73
Virginia Woolf: A Portrait …… Sarah M. Hall 74
Orlando (ed. Whitworth) …… Lindsay Martin 77

Report of Society Event
Reading Group Meeting: The Voyage Out …… Sarah M. Hall 81

For Members
Society events …… 84
Society events open to non-Members …… 84
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper

Issue No. 52, May 2016

ISSN 1465-2579

Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin

Upper wrapper: 38 Great James St, Holborn, WC1
The Editorial and Business departments of the Nation and Athenæum moved here in August 1925. Virginia Woolf visited the office on 17 April 1928 (see D2 179–80 and p. 53 below)
Photograph by Stuart N. Clarke, 28 August 2014
Photographs on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works 3
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 4
A Letter to Ellery Sedgwick …… Virginia Woolf 6
Note …… Stephen Barkway 7
The Hogarth Press, the Brontës, and the Wuthering Heights Authorship Debate …… Hilary Newman 11
Virginia Woolf’s Wordplay in ‘The Mark on the Wall’ …… Sayaka Okumura 20
Letter to the Editor: The Voyage Out? …… Sandra Widmark Vimar 24

Notes and Queries
A Review of Monday or Tuesday …… Stuart N. Clarke 25
Like Son, Like Father: Like Woolf, Like Proust …… Stuart N. Clarke 29
‘Betty Flanders [is] of a lower class than Mrs Barfoot’: Discuss. …… Stuart N. Clarke 30

Eighteenth Annual General Meeting 33
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 34
Letter to the Editor: Shirley Conran …… Mark Hussey 41

Bloomsbury Bibliomania
‘Le Temps Passe’, Commerce and the Hogarth Press …… Stephen Barkway 42
A Comparison of the First and Second Editions of The Prospects of Literature by Logan Pearsall Smith …… Stuart N. Clarke 46

Reviews
Virginia Woolf: Essays on the Self; Street Haunting and Other Essays …… Stephen Barkway 51
Conceived in Modernism …… Mary Ellen Foley 54
1922: Literature, Culture, Politics …… Gerri Kimber 60
Modernism in a Global Context …… Mark Banting 64
Virginia Woolf: ‘Mrs Dalloway’ (Whitworth) …… Ruth Webb 68
Virginia Woolf (Alkayat and Cosford) …… Stephen Barkway 71
The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism …… Lindsay Martin 73

Report of Society Event
Seventeenth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by Frances Spalding …… Stephen Barkway 78

For Members
Society events …… 80
Society event open to non-Members …… 80
Other events …… 80
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper

Issue No. 53, September 2016

ISSN 1465-2579

Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chair)
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin

Upper wrapper: Ottoline Morrell (see pp. 37–8)
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works …… 3
Anne Olivier Bell’s 100th Birthday …… Stephen Barkway 4
A Letter to Philip Morrell …… Virginia Woolf 8
Note …… Stephen Barkway 9
Aesthetes, ‘A’ Roads, and Cricketing Criminals: Annotating The Voyage Out …… Emma Sutton 12
The Cracked Sunflower: Virginia Woolf and Philanthropy …… Stuart N. Clarke 21

Notes and Queries
‘A last message from Ottoline’ Explained …… Stephen Barkway 37
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 39
Compulsory Chapel …… Thoby Stephen 44
Note …… Stuart N. Clarke 48

Re-Viewing Books Published by the Hogarth Press
Chase of the Wild Goose, by Mary Gordon …… Hilary Newman 51

Reviews
A Room of One’s Own (ed. Bradshaw and Clarke) …… Jane Goldman 60
Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears …… Sarah M. Hall 65
Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed …… Sarah M. Hall 68

Report
Alliance of Literary Societies AGM and Conference …… Lindsay Martin 72

Reports of Society Events and Activities
South Downs Walk, 2 July 2016 …… Stephen Barkway 75
Monks House Bergère Chair …… Stephen Barkway 75
Study Day, 19 March 2016 …… Lindsay Martin 78

Books received …… 78

For Members
New Life Member …… 79
Society events …… 79
Society events open to non-Members …… 79
Other events …… 80

Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper

Issue No. 54, January 2017

ISSN 1465-2579

Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chair)
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin

Upper wrapper: 20 Yeoman’s Row, London SW3 (see Editorial)
Photograph by Stuart N. Clarke, 23 October 2016
Photographs on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works …… 5
Three Newly Discovered Letters from Virginia Woolf to Ka Cox …… David Bradshaw 6
Driving ‘40 miles to see a necromancer’: Charles Paget Wade at Snowshill Manor …… Stephen Barkway 13
Poems from ‘Keeping Company with Mrs Woolf’ …… Neil Curry 28
A First Glimpse of ‘Keeping Company with Mrs Woolf’ …… Mary Ellen Foley 32

Book received …… 39

Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 40
To the Lighthouse: A Dada Poem …… Stephen Barkway 48

Re-Viewing Books Published by the Hogarth Press 
Funeral March of a Marionette: Charlotte of Albany, by Susan Buchan …… Stephen Barkway 50

Reviews
Queer Bloomsbury …… Stuart N. Clarke 54
The Life of D. H. Lawrence …… Gerri Kimber 62
Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist …… Lindsay Martin 66
Julia Margaret Cameron (Woolf and Fry) …… Stephen Barkway 71
A Mystical Philosophy …… Matthew Macer-Wright 76

For Members
New Life Member …… 83
Society events …… 83
Society events open to non-Members …… 83
Other events …… 84

Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper

Separate 40-page Supplement
David Bradshaw, 1955–2016

Issue No. 55, May 2017

ISSN 1465-2579

Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke,
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin

Upper wrapper: 24 Montpelier Crescent, Brighton, Dr Octavia Wilberforce’s house, where she examined Virginia Woolf on 27 March 1941 (see p. 29).
Photograph by Stuart N. Clarke, 4 April 2017
Photographs on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works 4
Chapter XIII of the Holograph Draft of Jacob’s Room …… Virginia Woolf, transcribed and edited by Stuart N. Clarke 5
The Inquest on Virginia Woolf …… Stuart N. Clarke 26

The Hogarth Press
‘Its the personal touch’: The Hogarth Press in Richmond, 1917–1924 …… Stephen Barkway 34
Hogarth Press ‘A’ Subscribers in 1922 …… Stuart N. Clarke 54
Report: exhibition in Richmond …… Stephen Barkway 60
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 63

Reviews
Ordinary Matters …… Maggie Humm 69
Virginia Woolf (Nadel) …… Kathy Chamberlain 73
Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Path …… Gerri Kimber 76

Books received 80

Report of Society Event
Eighteenth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by Susan Sellers …… Stephen Barkway 81

For Members
Nineteenth Annual General Meeting 83
Society events 83
Society events open to non-Members 84
Other events 84

Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper