Issue No. 6, January 2001
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Paul Evans,
Nena Skrbic, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper designed and photograph on wrapper by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
A Letter to Pernel Strachey ……. Virginia Woolf 4
Virginia Woolf’s Treatment of Food in The Voyage Out and The Waves ……. Ros Peers 6
The Waves: A Title Challenge to Ulysses ……. Tadanobu Sakamoto 18
‘Each of course saw something different’: Mrs. Dallowayand the Experience of the Novel ……. Deirdre Gunnison 23
A Room of One’s Own and the Wren Library ……. Sheila M.Wilkinson 30
Unexpected Encounters ……. Sandra Widmark Vimar 32
Virginia Woolf’s Blurbs ……. 35
Virginia Woolf Today ……. Stephen Barkway 37
Letter to the Editor: Miss Perkins ……. Anna Woodword 40
Book reviews
Mrs Dalloway, edited by David Bradshaw ……. Ruth Webb 41
Flush: A Biography, edited by Alison Light ……. Stuart N. Clarke 44
Virginia Woolf, by Nigel Nicolson ……. Vanessa Curtis 45
Virginia Woolf, by Ruth Webb ……. Sally Zigmond 47
Virginia Woolf, by Linden Peach ……. Caroline Davies 48
Virginia Woolf’s Essays: Sketching the Past ……. Stuart N. Clarke 49
Woolf Studies Annual, Volume VI ……. Stuart N. Clarke 51
Bloomsbury and France ……. Stephen Barkway 54
To the Lighthouse, by Julian Cowley ……. Stuart N. Clarke 56
Virginia Woolf, The Uncommon Bookbinder ……. Stuart N. Clarke 57
Peering Through the Escallonia ……. Vanessa Curtis 59
The Life & Death of Asham ……. Ruth Webb 60
Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath — Two of Me Now ……. Stephen Barkway 62
Monarchy, by Leonard Woolf ……. Rachael Holmes 64
Roger Fry’s Durbins ……. Rachael Holmes 65
The West Country as a Literary Invention ……. Rosemary Sumner 67
Books received ……. 69
Reports
Virginia in Cambridge ……. Vanessa Curtis and Stephen Barkway 70
Acknowledgements ……. Sheila M. Wilkinson 75
Reading Virginia Woolf ……. Sheila M. Wilkinson 76
The Literature of the 1930s: The Text in History ……. Stuart N. Clarke 77
For members
Society events ……. 79
Other events ……. 79
Donation to the Society ……. 79
Virginia Woolf Quiz ……. 80
Instructions for contributors ……. 81
This issue is dedicated to the memory of Ros Peers (1951-2000)
Issue No. 7, May 2001
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Paul Evans,
Nena Skrbic, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington Photograph on wrapper and wrapper designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
A Letter to the Director of the British Museum ……. Virginia Woolf 4
Virginia Woolf: A Multifaceted Brain, a Single Purpose ……. Jean Guiguet 6
True Relation or Mysterious Case: The Source of Virginia Woolf’s First Ghost Story ……. Nena Skrbic 21
Experiment and Tradition: To the Lighthouse and All Passion Spent ……. Hilary Newman 26
Virginia Woolf and Jacques Raverat ……. Ian Blyth 31
On the Other Side of the Escallonia ……. Vanessa Curtis 36
Virginia Woolf’s Blurbs: The Waves ……. 39
Virginia Woolf Today ……. Stephen Barkway 41
Lytton Strachey’s Ermyntrude and Esmeralda ……. Tim Heath 44
The Transfer of 22 Hyde Park Gate to the Stephen Children ……. Vanessa Curtis 47
The Chevalier de l’Étang (1757-1840) and his Descendants, the Pattles [part 1] ……. Hugh Orange and John Beaumont
Editor’s note 51
Introduction: The Chevalier transfers to India 52
1 The Chevalier’s marriage 54
2 The Chevalier’s capture by the English 55
3 The Chevalier’s life in the English community 56
4 The Chevalier’s family 58
5 The de l’Étang daughters’ education 60
Pursuing Leslie Stephen Through the Censuses ……. Stuart N. Clarke 63
Highgate Cemetery: Update ……. Vanessa Curtis 66
Book reviews
Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations ……. Stephen Barkway 68
Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf ……. Sally Zigmond 70
Love Letters: Leonard Woolf and Trekkie Ritchie Parsons……. Vanessa Curtis 72
Orlanda ……. Stephen Barkway 76
Books received ……. 77
Reports
Second Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by Julia Briggs ……. Stephen Barkway 78
‘Rodmell to the Ouse’: Walk ……. Stuart N. Clarke 79
‘Virginia Woolf Night’ (BBC) ……. Stuart N. Clarke 81
For members
Society event ……. 82
Other events ……. 82
Stewarding at Monks House ……. Sheila M. Wilkinson 83
Reading Group ……. Vanessa Curtis 83
Instructions for contributors ……. 84
Issue No. 8, September 2001
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Paul Evans,
Nena Skrbic, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Little Talland House, Firle
‘This is not a cottage, but a hideous suburban villa — I have to prepare people for the shock.’ (Letters, no. 582, 31 August [1911])
Photograph on wrapper and wrapper designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
A Letter to J. C. Squire ……. Virginia Woolf 4
Note ……. Stephen Barkway 5
Letters to Miss Perkins ……. Leonard Woolf 8
Note ……. Stuart N. Clarke 14
The Application of Thought to Editing Woolf’s Texts ……. Stuart N. Clarke 15
Further Thoughts on Mrs. Dalloway’s Hot Wednesday in June 1923 ……. David Bradshaw 22
Other Lighthouses: On First Reading To the Lighthouse……. Matthew Macer-Wright 24
Virginia Woolf’s Blurbs: The Common Reader: Second Series ……. 26
Virginia Woolf Today ……. Stephen Barkway 28
The Chevalier de l’Étang (1757–1840) and his Descendants, the Pattles [part 2] ……. Hugh Orange and John Beaumont
6 The de l’Étang daughters and posterity ……. 31
7 The family of James and Adéline Pattle ……. 34
8 Maria Jackson (née Pattle) and her descendants ……. 42
Postscript ……. 46
Editor’s note on ‘pretty Theodosia’ ……. 47
Book reviews
The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction (Oxford World’s Classics) ……. Nena ·Skrbic 51
Virginia Woolf: A Beginner’s Guide ……. Stuart N. Clarke 53
Virginia Woolf in Camera ……. Stephen Barkway 55
Stella and Virginia ……. Marion Dell 57
The Bloomsbury Group in Venice ……. Stuart N. Clarke 58
Spirits of Place ……. Lindsay Martin 59
The Eternal Moment ……. Stuart N. Clarke 61
Reports
Virginia in Sussex ……. Vanessa Curtis and Stephen Barkway 63
Acknowledgements ……. Sheila M. Wilkinson 70
Virginia Woolf: Fact and Fiction ……. Andrea Darch 71
The Mind of Virginia Woolf ……. Lynn Todd-Crawford 72
For members
Third Annual General Meeting ……. 73
Cassis ……. 73
Society events ……. 74
Other events ……. 74
Postcards ……. 75
Instructions for contributors ……. 76
Issue No. 9, January 2002
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke, Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis,
Nena Skrbic, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Kenninghall Church
‘at Kenninghall the Christian church alone was obvious; the curiously moulded tower, with its gilt clock, showed itself most decorously gray …’ (A Passionate Apprentice, p. 314)
Photographs on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
Letters to Helen MacAfee ……. Virginia Woolf 4
Calendar of letters ……. Stuart N. Clarke 10
Cyclic Composition: The Genesis of Structure in The Waves ……. Ida Klitgard 12
‘ When a woman speaks the truth about her body’: Ethel Smyth, Virginia Woolf and the Challenges of Lesbian Auto/biography ……. Chris Wiley 19
A Little ‘Einsteinian’ Confusion ……. lan Blyth 29
Night and Day: Modernism in Disguise? ……. Hilary Newman 34
Netherhampton House, Near Salisbury ……. Sheila M. Wilkinson 39
‘To Elvedon’ : Looking Over the Wall in Norfolk ……. Stephen Barkway 42
Passing the Examination or ‘Passing Russell Square’? ……. Stuart N. Clarke 46
Not Virginia Woolf’s Blurbs ……. Stuart N. Clarke 48
Virginia Woolf Today ……. Stephen Barkway 49
Book Reviews
Three Guineas (Shakespeare Head Press) ……. Stuart N. Clarke 52
A Bloomsbury Canvas ……. Stuart N. Clarke 55
Virginia Woolf by Mary Ann Caws ……. Stephen Barkway 56
The Feminine Note in Fiction ……. Stuart N. Clarke 58
From the Lighthouse to Monk’s House ……. Lindsay Martin 59
Books received 61
Reports
Collecting from the Heart: Sotheby’s Sale of the Library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr ……. Stephen Barkway 62
Vita & Virginia, Bloomsbury Theatre ……. Stuart N. Clarke 67
Letters to the Editor
Virginia Woolf Today ……. Anne Olivier Bell 69
‘Hippocrene’ ……. Peter Wallis 69
The Chevalier de l’Etang (1757-1840) and his Descendants, the Pattles ……. John Beaumont 70 & Stuart N. Clarke 72
For members
Society events 73
Other events 74
Life members 74
Ros Peers’s Library ……. Stephen Barkway 75
‘Over There: Woolf and America’ 75
Instructions for contributors 76
Issue No. 10, May 2002
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke, Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis,
Nena Skrbic, Sheila M. Wilkinson
wrapper: Chapel, Giggleswick School
Photographs on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
Letters to Humphrey Milford……. Virginia Woolf 4
Note ……. Stephen Barkway 7
‘Out’ Homosexual Men in Virginia Woolfs Novels ……. Stuart N. Clarke 10
Virginia in Yorkshire ……. Stephen Barkway 22
Out of Africa ……. Glynnis Koch 25
Virginia Woolf Today ……. Stephen Barkway 27
Diary for 1896 ……. Stella Duckworth Transcribed and edited by Vanessa Curtis 30
Angelica Garnett: A Bloomsbury Heritage ……. Florence Noiville 46
Notes and Queries
‘Empty Room’, by A. S. J. Tessimond ……. Stephen Barkway 49
Book reviews
Editing Virginia Woolf.: ……. Stuart N. Clarke 50
Virginia Woolf and Fascism ……. Katherine C. Hill-Miller 56
Virginia Woolf and the Visible World ……. Rosemary Sumner 58
Virginia Woolf.: Becoming a Writer ……. Stephen Barkway 60
L ‘Univers imaginaire de Virginia Woolf ……. Constance Hunting 63
Political and Social Issues in British Women ‘s Fiction 1928-1968 ……. Marion Dell 64
Books received 66
Reports
The Lies and Silences of Biography ……. Dorothy Parkinson-Robbie 67
Lot 128: Gorringes’ Auction in Lewes ……. Sally Chalmers 69
For members
Third Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by Maggie Humm ……. Stephen Barkway 71
Society events 72
Other events 72
Ros Peers’s Library ……. Stephen Barkway 74
Major Authors on CD-ROM: Virginia Woolf 75
Woolf Studies Annual, Vol. VIII 75
Instructions for contributors 76