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Unpublished Letters in New Zealand Related to the Woolfs’ Anti-Fascism …… Joe Shaughnessy 7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