Issue No. 71, September 2022
Editorial Committee
Stephen Barkway, Sarah M. Hall (Co-Chairs)
Mary Ellen Foley, Lynne Newland, Matthew Macer-Wright
Upper wrapper: Hermes by Praxiteles in the (new) museum, Olympia, 17 October 2015.
‘Sandra Williams got Jacob’s head exactly on a level with the head of the Hermes of Praxiteles.
[…] The comparison was all in his favour’ (JR, CUP, pp. 236, 645).
Photograph by Stuart N. Clarke.
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stephen Barkway 3
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works …… 6
Unpublished Letters in New Zealand Related to the Woolfs’ Anti-Fascism …… Joe Shaughnessy 7
Jacob’s Room Centenary
The Composition History of Jacob’s Room …… Stuart N. Clarke 10
Haiku: Jacob’s Room …… Stuart N. Clarke 17
By the Shores of Consciousness in Joyce and Woolf, 1922 …… Finn Fordham 18
A New Form for a New Novel: Writing Jacob’s Room …… Sue Roe 38
Jacob’s Room: Two Contemporary Reviews …… Stephen Barkway 51
Virginia Woolf Remembering ‘the Russian Dancers’ …… Robert B. Todd 54
Jacob Flanders ‘Could Not Dance’: The Significance of Nondance in Jacob’s Room …… Rhonda Mayne 63
Notes and Queries
The Colours of the Sea around the Scilly Isles (Jacob’s Room, ch. IV) …… Robert B. Todd 68
How I Discovered Virginia Woolf …… Lynne Newland 70
Writers’ Houses and a Plaque for Talland House …… Maggie Humm 72
Virginia Woolf Today …… Lynne Newland 78
Report on a Society Event
1922: Modernism Voyages Out (AGM Conference, 9 April 2022) …… Emilia Castellucci 82
For Members
Society Events—Members Only …… 83
Society Events—Non-Members Welcome …… 83
Other Events …… 83
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 72, January 2023
Editorial Committee
Stephen Barkway, Sarah M. Hall (Co-Chairs)
Mary Ellen Foley, Lynne Newland, Matthew Macer-Wright
Upper wrapper: Brighton bus no. 472, on Western Road, Brighton. See p. 34 below
Photograph by Stephen Barkway, 20 August 2022
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Sarah M. Hall 3
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works …… 4
A Letter to Francis Birrell …… Virginia Woolf 5
Note …… Stephen Barkway 5
The Stephens’ Move to 46 Gordon Square in October 1904 …… Robert B. Todd 11
An Inverted Poetics of Emptiness in Jacob’s Room …… Sayaka Okumura 19
The Goth Adjectivised: Julian Thoby Stephen and the Misuse of a Nickname …… Robert B. Todd 27
Notes and Queries
Why Go through Wimbledon? …… Stuart N. Clarke 31
Virginia Woolf on the Buses …… Stephen Barkway 34
Professor Huxtable in Jacob’s Room …… Robert B. Todd 36
Virginia Woolf Today …… Lynne Newland 38
Reviews
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio and Identity …… Claire Davison 43
Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf …… Maggie Humm 48
Young Bloomsbury …… James T. Bowen 52
Oh, to Be a Painter! …… Susanne Forrest 56
Virginia Woolf’s Apprenticeship …… Anna Snaith 58
Virginia Woolf’s Mythic Method …… Austin Long 62
Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers …… Marion Dell 65
The Fendi Set …… Marielle O’Neill 68
Firebird: A Bloomsbury Love Story …… Matthew Macer-Wright 70
A Party of Pattles …… Marion Dell 78
For Members
Society Events—Members Only …… 83
Society Events—Non-Members Welcome …… 83
Other Events …… 84
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 73, May 2023
Editorial Committee
Stephen Barkway, Sarah M. Hall (Co-Chairs)
Mary Ellen Foley, Lynne Newland, Matthew Macer-Wright
Upper wrapper: Leonard Woolf at Monks House, c.1932. Monks House Album 3, p. 18 (detail)
Photograph: Virginia Woolf Monk’s House Photographs, circa 1867–1967 (MS Thr 560), Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stephen Barkway 3
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works …… 4
A Letter to Leonard Woolf …… Virginia Woolf 5
Note …… Stephen Barkway 5
Leonard Woolf Reconsidered
The Pleasure of Letters: Dear Mrs Nolan, Yours Sincerely, Leonard Woolf …… Anne Byrne 8
From Parlour to Parliament: Margaret Llewelyn Davies, Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Women’s Co-operative Guild …… Marielle O’Neill 21
Is Leonard Woolf Undervalued? …… Peter Stansky 28
Drawing of Leonard Woolf …… Louisa Amelia Albani 32
‘A wide-minded study’: Leonard Woolf’s Undergraduate Essay ‘Classical Education and Literature’ …… Robert B. Todd 33
Leonard Woolf’s Final Weeks before Leaving for Ceylon in 1904 …… Robert B. Todd 44
Sylvia Chesterman, 1937–2023 …… Stephen Barkway 51
The Leonard Woolf Society
Nathan Sivasambu, 1928–2022 …… Suren Paul 52
Brief History of the Leonard Woolf Society …… Sarah M. Hall 54
Woolf Works ‘Insight’ at the Royal Opera House …… Maggie Humm 58
Virginia Woolf Today …… Lynne Newland 61
Reviews
The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume 2 …… Stephen Barkway 66
Selected Letters of Clive Bell …… Matthew Macer-Wright 72
Report of Society Event
Twenty-second Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture …… Sarah M. Hall 80
For Members
Society Events—Members Only …… 82
Society Events—Non-Members Welcome …… 82
Other Events …… 82
Twenty-fourth Annual General Meeting …… 83
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 74, September 2023
Editorial Committee
Stephen Barkway, Sarah M. Hall (Co-Chairs)
Mary Ellen Foley, Matthew Macer-Wright, Celeste Allen
Upper wrapper: Part of an installation by Barbara Kruger in the Marron Family Atrium, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 16 July 2022–2 January 2023. The installation was titled: ‘Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.’ The quotation in the circle is from A Room of One’s Own, chapter 2.
Photograph by Stephen Barkway, 4 October 2022
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Sarah M. Hall 3
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works …… 4
A Letter to Charles Wilson …… Virginia Woolf 5
Note …… Stephen Barkway 5
‘Submit or Fight’: Virginia Woolf’s Difficulty with the Spanish Civil War, Julian Bell and Three Guineas …… Sarah Watling 10
Did Virginia Woolf Suffer from Face Blindness? …… Görel Kristina Näslund 23
‘This he had preserved’: The Exquisite Moment in Mrs. Dalloway …… Noor Zohdy 28
Charles Elton’s ‘A Garden Song’: Leonard Woolf’s Inscription in His Little Notebook …… John Shaw 33
Virginia Woolf Today …… Lynne Newland 37
Reviews
The Diary of Virginia Woolf (Granta) …… Matthew Macer-Wright and Stephen Barkway 42
Virginia Woolf: The Negotiations of Reality …… Jane de Gay 53
This Devastating Fever …… Marielle O’Neill 59
Virginia Woolf and Poetry …… Matthew Macer-Wright 61
A Room of Your Own …… Vanessa Curtis 67
Emily & Virginia: A Novel …… Claire Nicholson 68
The World of Virginia Woolf (jigsaw) …… Sarah M. Hall 71
Reports of Society Events
Vita and Virginia (play) …… Claire Nicholson 74
DallowayDay 2023 …… Adam Chugg 77
Wendy Grierson, 1943–2023 …… Marion Dell 80
For Members
Society Events—Members Only …… 83
Society Events—Non-Members Welcome …… 83
Other Events …… 83
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 75, January 2024
Editorial Committee
Stephen Barkway, Sarah M. Hall (Co-Chairs)
Mary Ellen Foley, Matthew Macer-Wright, Celeste Allen
Upper wrapper: 10 Gower Street, Bloomsbury, the home of Ottoline and Philip Morrell from 1928
‘I was at Ottoline’s funeral services. I miss her; I mean Gower Street looks so dumb and dismal. I used to go round between tea and dinner, and now—’
(L6 226, 3 May 1938, to Vita Sackville-West)
Photograph by Stephen Barkway, 25 September 2023
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stephen Barkway 3
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works …… 4
A Letter to R. W. Chapman …… Virginia Woolf 5
Note …… Stephen Barkway 5
Mr Woolf’s Letters: The Journey Home …… Anne Byrne 8
The Stephen and Macaulay Families: Two New Letters …… Martin Ferguson Smith 28
Reading Sound in Virginia Woolf through ‘Tick-Tock’ …… Joe Bray 40
‘Her dress flamed, her body burnt’: Unravelling the Fabric of Identity in Mrs. Dalloway …… Evan Reed Butler 48
How I Discovered Virginia Woolf …… Shaun Ford 55
Notes and Queries
Some Reflections on the Date of the ‘Present Day’ Section in The Years …… Hilary Newman 57
Extraordinary Beauty: The Orlando Project in Solingen …… Andreas Schaefer 61
Virginia Woolf Today …… Lynne Newland 63
Reviews
A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again …… Matthew Macer-Wright 66
The Artist Helen Coombe (1864–1937): The Tragedy of Roger Fry’s Wife …… Wendy Jones Nakanishi 73
Bring No Clothes (book and exhibition) …… Helen Rees Leahy 77
For Members
Society Events—Members Only 83
Other Events 83
Society Publications Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors Inside rear wrapper