Issue No. 61, May 2019
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chair), Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lynne Newland
Upper wrapper: 24 Hyde Park Gate, London SW7, Stella and Jack Hills’ home in 1897; see p. 39
Photograph by Stuart N. Clarke, 5 April 2019
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works 3
A Letter to Beatrice Webb …… Virginia Woolf 4
Note …… Stephen Barkway 4
Ireland, The Nation and the Woolfs, Part I …… Anne Byrne 7
The Irish Republic …… Leonard Woolf 13
The Irish War …… Leonard Woolf 17
The End of Our Government of Ireland …… Leonard Woolf 21
Books received 24
A History of Hogarth House, Part II …… Jonathan Carey 25
Edited and annotated …… Sarah M. Hall
Notes and Queries
Highgate Cemetery Records …… Stuart N. Clarke 36
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 41
Reviews
Virginia Woolf’s Rooms and the Spaces of Modernity …… Maggie Humm 47
Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group …… Sarah M. Hall 52
Flush: A Biography (Prosymne Press) …… Stephen Barkway 60
Virginia Woolf in Richmond 62
Vita & Virginia (film) …… Sarah M. Hall 66
Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world …… Matthew-Macer Wright 68
Report
Anne Olivier Bell (1916–2018): Celebration of her Life …… Sarah Phillips 74
Reports on a Society Event
Interactive Study Day on Orlando, 9 March 2019 …… Lisa Johnson 76; Annabel Dobson 76; Jennifer Cameron 77
International Virginia Woolf Society …… 78
For Members
Society Event—Members Only …… 79
Society Events—Non-Members Welcome …… 79
Twenty-first Annual General Meeting …… 80
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors ……Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 62, September 2019
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chair), Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lynne Newland
Upper wrapper: Cecil Woolf with his 2017 monograph, The Other Boy at the Hogarth Press
See pp. 72–81
Photograph by Paula Maggio
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Virginia Woolf, Geraldine Jewsbury and Susanne Howe …… Abigail Burnham Bloom 3
Letter to Miss Howe …… Virginia Woolf 4
Orlando: That ‘masterless house’ of Fiction …… Sue Roe 7
Virginia Woolf’s ‘Kew Gardens’: The Allegory of the Snail and the Green Insect …… Emma Wood 20
Virginia Woolf and Byron …… Hilary Newman 31
Books received 43
‘black, but enchanting’ Revisited …… Stuart N. Clarke 44
Ireland, The Nation and the Woolfs, Part II …… Anne Byrne 51
A Proposal of Irish Settlement …… Leonard Woolf 63
The Guilt of the Government …… Leonard Woolf 67
Cecil James Sidney Woolf (1927–2019): Tributes
Jean Moorcroft Wilson …… 73
Paula Maggio …… 75
Vanessa Curtis …… 77
Marion Dell …… 78
Sarah M. Hall …… 79
Anne Byrne …… 79
Gill Lowe …… 80
Report
DallowayDay 2019: Queering Dalloway …… Sarah M. Hall 81
For Members
Society Event – Members Only …… 83
Society Events – Non-Members Welcome …… 83
Other Events …… 83
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works …… 84
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 63, January 2020
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chair), Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lynne Newland
Upper wrapper: Gale, Chelwood Gate
The Cecils ‘built a modest country house, which they called Gale on account of its exposed location, at Chelwood Gate, between East Grinstead and Uckfield, in Sussex: surviving a Luftwaffe bomb which fell just outside its front door in November 1940, it remained their best-loved home for more than half a century.’ (ODNB)
See pp. 5–6
Photograph by Stephen Barkway, 19 December 2019
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Magazines 3
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works 4
A Letter to Lady Robert (Nelly) Cecil …… Virginia Woolf 5
Note …… Stephen Barkway 5
Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth and ‘dot, dot, dot’, ‘. . .’, ‘etc.’ …… Margaret Tudeau-Clayton 7
Bloomsbury Residences in Mrs. Dalloway: Peter Walsh and the Warren Smiths …… Robert B. Todd 22
The Inn Crowd: Edward Marsh, Virginia Woolf and the Inns of Court …… Robert B. Todd 31
The ‘Missing’ Letters of Leonard Woolf to Nancy Nolan 1943–69 …… Anne Byrne 38
Notes and Queries
The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen: A Tragic Influence …… André Gerard 45
Re-Viewing Books Published by the Hogarth Press
The 6,000 Beards of Athos, by Ralph H. Brewster …… Stuart N. Clarke 47
Reviews
Mrs Dalloway: The Hours (Manuscript) …… Stephen Barkway 53
Rhythmic Modernism: Mimesis and the Short Story …… Gerri Kimber 56
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf …… Matthew Macer-Wright 61
Dalloway (performance) …… Karen Whitaker 67
Reports
Passa Porta’s 7th Noble Prize, 1 October 2019 …… Steven Van Der Heyden 69
VWSGB Tribute at the Memorial to Cecil Woolf, 19 October 2019 …… Claire Nicholson 71
Report on a Society Event
Night and Day Study Weekend, 13–15 September 2019 …… Cathy Brogan 74
Books Received 78
For Members
Society Event—Members Only 79
Society Events—Non-Members Welcome 79
Other Events 80
Society Publications Inside front wrapper
Information for Contributors Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 64, May 2020
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chair), Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lynne Newland
Upper wrapper: St Paul’s Cathedral
‘The omnibuses swirled and circled in a perpetual current round the steps of St. Paul’s. The statue of Queen Anne seemed to preside over the chaos and to supply it with a centre, like the hub of a wheel. It seemed as if the white lady ruled the traffic with her sceptre …’
(The Years (Hogarth Press, 1937), 243)
Photograph by Stephen Barkway, 21 March 2009
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works 4
A Letter to Hugh Walpole …… Virginia Woolf 5
Note …… Stephen Barkway 6
Figures of Force in Jacob’s Room …… Stuart N. Clarke 9
The London Season and the Date of Chapter XIII of Jacob’s Room …… Robert B. Todd 18
Der Ring, the Treasury, the Aristotelian Society: A Triptych from Letters to Ka Cox …… Robert B. Todd 26
Hove, Boxing Day 1910: Virginia Woolf and the Sydney-Turner Family …… Robert B. Todd 36
‘All Out’: Surrey’s ‘Dramatic Collapse’ at Sheffield and the Date of Mrs. Dalloway Revisited …… Robert B. Todd 48
Notes and Queries …… Stuart N. Clarke
A Puzzling Word in Mrs. Dalloway 56
A Murder in Mrs. Dalloway 57
Intertextuality in a Schoolbook 59
Hogarth Press Fliers …… Stuart N. Clarke
‘Virginia Woolf: New Uniform Edition’ [1929] 61
‘The Works of Virginia Woolf’ [1931] 63
Books Received 65
Reviews
Religion Around Virginia Woolf …… Matthew Macer-Wright 66
Virginia Woolf at Home …… Katherine Hill-Miller 72
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read …… Stuart N. Clarke 76
For Members
Society Events for Members and Non-Members 79
Other Events 79
Claire Davison Cutting the Virginia Woolf Cake on 25 January 2020 80
Society Publications Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 65, September 2020
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chair), Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lynne Newland
Upper wrapper: 3 Prince Albert Road, London NW1. See p. 22 n31.
Photograph by Stuart N. Clarke, 2 August 2018
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works 4
‘Dearest Weasel’: Virginia Woolf’s Letters to Mary Hutchinson …… Stuart N. Clarke 5
The texts of the letters 13
Letters to Mary Hutchinson …… Virginia Woolf 15
Transcribed and edited by …… Stuart N. Clarke
Bruges 1907, Ghent 2020: Saxon Sydney-Turner and Flemish Painting in The Voyage Out and Night and Day …… Robert B. Todd 47
Marion Dell in Conversation with Maggie Humm about her New Novel, Talland House 51
Reviews
Square Haunting …… Matthew Macer-Wright 56
Modernist Lives …… Stephen Barkway 65
A Moment in the Life of Virginia Woolf …… Stephen Barkway 71
A Note of Explanation …… Stephen Barkway 72
Report
Finding Orlando in New York! …… Anne Byrne 75
For Members
Society Event—Members Only 79
Society Events—Non-Members Welcome 79
Other Events 80
Society Publications Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors Inside rear wrapper