Issue no. 41, September 2012
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chief Editor)
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin
wrapper: Fishguard Bay Hotel, Goodwick, Fishguard
‘We are sitting in the hotel lounge, with a couple of sporting gentry, who read out from the Times about cricket. I try to read.’
(Letters, no. 2883 to Ethel Smyth, 27 April 1934)
The Woolfs stayed at the Fishguard bay Hotel the night before their sea-crossing to Cork, Ireland — see p. 34
Photograph by Stephen Barkway, 12 July 2009
Photographs on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Honorary President of the Society …… Stephen Barkway 3
Angelica Garnett (1918–2012)
Pour saluer Angelica Garnett …… Elisabeth Grate 6
Message for the Unveiling of the Memorial in Tavistock Square, 26 June 2004 …… Angelica Garnett 9
A Letter to an Anonymous Man …… Virginia Woolf 11
Note …… Stephen Barkway 12
Rose Macaulay and Virginia Woolf: Kindred Spirits, Literary Rivals …… Wendy Jones Nakanishi 16
L. H. Myers’ Satire on Bloomsbury …… Lindsay Martin 26
Virginia Woolf’s Visit to Dublin in 1934 …… Stuart N. Clarke 34
Notes and Queries
‘Scrolloping’ Revisited …… Stuart N. Clarke 42
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 45
Re-Viewing Books Published by the Hogarth Press
Illyria, Lady, by Constance Butler …… Hilary Newman 49
Reviews
Literature, Cinema and Politics 1930–1945 …… Evelyn Haller 58
Modernism, Memory, and Desire …… Karen Daubert 63
Julian Bell: From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War …… Eleanor McNees 70
Reports of Society events
Reading Group Meeting: ‘The Leaning Tower’ …… Sarah M. Hall 73
South Downs Walk …… Stephen Barkway 75
S. P. Rosenbaum …… James M. Haule 77
For Members
The Alliance of Literary Societies and its Journal, ALSo …… Ruth Webb 79
Society events …… 80
Other events …… 80
Books received …… 80
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 42, January 2013
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chief Editor)
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin
wrapper: St Mary’s & Holy Apostles Church, Scarborough; Anne Brontë is buried in the churchyard (see pp. 9–10 and 13).
Photograph by Stuart N. Clarke, 11 August 2012
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
A Letter to Mrs Joshua …… Virginia Woolf 4
Note …… Stuart N. Clarke 4
Books received …… 7
Jacob’s Room …… Stuart N. Clarke
Scarborough 8
A Chronology 17
Named Fictional Characters, etc. 19
Wasted Votes? …… Stuart N. Clarke 25
Jointly Signed Letter
The Times, 28 November 1934 …… Stuart N. Clarke 30
Notes and Queries
The Genesis of ‘The Shooting Party’ …… Stephen Barkway and Stuart N. Clarke 33
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 37
VWB41: Addendum et Corrigendum 42
Reviews
In the Hollow of the Wave …… Mary Ellen Foley 43
On Being Ill, with Notes from Sick Rooms …… Marion Dell 50
A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury …… Janfarie Skinner 54
Charleston and Monk’s House …… Marion Dell 58
Constellation of Genius: 1922 …… Lindsay Martin 65
Report of Society Event
Virginia in Derbyshire …… Sylvia Chesterman 67
Acknowledgements …… Sheila M. Wilkinson 78
Gisela Philippi …… Sheila M. Wilkinson 78
For Members
Society Events …… 80
Other Events …… 80
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Instructions for Contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 43, May 2013
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chief Editor)
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin
wrapper: letter (detail) from Virginia Woolf to Edgar Morrow, dated 14 November 1932 (see pp. 4–6).
With thanks to Ann Winfield (née Morrow) for permission to use this image
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
A Letter to Edgar Morrow …… Virginia Woolf 4
Note …… Stephen Barkway 6
Biographical Note on Edgar Morrow …… Ann Winfield and Carole Winfield 7
The Third Julia Briggs Memorial Prize
Report on the Competition …… Ruth Webb 8
Virginia Woolf: Representations of the Relationship between the Past and Present Possibilities …… Emma Simone 10
The Background to ‘The Symbol’ …… Stuart N. Clarke 15
Mrs W. K. Clifford, Leslie Stephen and Virginia Woolf …… Hilary Newman 22
An Uncollected Letter to Lucy Clifford …… Virginia Woolf 31
Note …… Stephen Barkway 31
Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press: An Emotional and Professional Enterprise …… Candyce Heinsen Carter 33
Book received 40
Some Press Opinions (Part One) Stuart N. Clarke 41
The Voyage Out 42
Notes and Queries
Freud’s Eightieth Birthday Committee …… Stephen Barkway 51
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 52
Reviews
The Years (Shakespeare Head) …… Stephen Barkway 58
Translating Virginia Woolf …… Stuart N. Clarke 60
The Web of Sense …… Isabel M. Andrés 65
Circulating Genius …… Gerri Kimber 68
Love’s Creation …… Stuart N. Clarke 73
Report
The 2012 Leslie Stephen Lecture, University of Cambridge …… Stephen Barkway 78
Report of Society Event
Fourteenth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by Jane Goldman …… Stephen Barkway 81
For Members
Fifteenth Annual General Meeting …… 83
Society events …… 84
Society events open to non-Members …… 84
Other events …… 84
Society publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 44, September 2013
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chief Editor)
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin
Wrapper: The Atlantic, May 1938 (see p. 3 below).
As may be seen from the map, Germany has already absorbed Austria following the Anschluß on 12 March 1938; it will devour Czechoslovakia after the Munich Agreement at the end of September.
Photographs on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
A Letter to Cordelia ‘Boo’ Fisher …… Virginia Woolf 5
Note …… Emma Wood 6
The Weeping Woman and Virginia Woolf’s Call of Conscience: Radical Pacifist Politics in Three Guineas …… J. Ashley Foster 11
Another Satire on Bloomsbury: Roy Campbell’s The Georgiad and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando …… Lindsay Martin 19
Some Press Opinions (Part Two) …… Stuart N. Clarke 27
Monday or Tuesday 28
Notes and Queries
Modernist Fowl Play …… Hilary Newman and Stephen Barkway 40
A Manx Cat (photograph) …… Stuart N. Clarke 42
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 43
Patrick Garland Remembered …… Sarah Phillips 50
Reviews
Virginia Woolf in Context …… Jeremy Diaper 53
Virginia Woolf as a ‘Cubist Writer’ …… Stephen Barkway 57
How Should One Read a Marriage? …… Ruth Webb 59
Virginia Woolf and the Spanish Civil War …… Eleanor McNees 62
The Best of Blogging Woolf; Virginia Woolf’s Likes & Dislikes …… Charlotte Jones 64
Virginia Woolf: Walking in the Footsteps of Michel de Montaigne …… Gill Lowe 67
Orlando: A Biography (Folio Society) …… Stephen Barkway 70
Vanessa & Virginia (play) …… Lindsay Martin 73
A Knife in the Whale (play) …… Sarah M. Hall 74
From the Diary of Virginia Woolf (recital) …… Stephen Barkway 77
Reports of Society Events
Reading Group Meeting: ‘Craftsmanship’ …… Sarah M. Hall 79
South Downs Walk …… Stephen Barkway 82
For Members
Society event for Members …… 84
Society events open to non-Members …… 84
Other events …… 84
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 45, January 2014
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chief Editor)
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin
Upper wrapper: Shakespeare’s monument, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon
‘And we went to the Church, & there was the florid foolish bust’
(Diary, [9 May 1934]); see pp. 75 and 77 below.
Photographs on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
A Letter to H. R. Wackrill …… Virginia Woolf 4
Note …… Stephen Barkway 5
Some Press Opinions (Part Three) …… Stuart N. Clarke 7
Night and Day …… 8
Appendix: The Voyage Out …… 31
Notes and Queries
Elizabeth Dalloway’s Omnibus …… Stuart N. Clarke 34
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 38
Reviews
Virginia Woolf’s Essayism …… Eleanor McNees 46
Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination …… Lindsay Martin 50
The Charleston Bulletin Supplements …… Gill Lowe 53
Virginia Woolf’s Garden …… Stuart N. Clarke 58
The Angel of Charleston …… Stuart N. Clarke 61
The Years (CUP) …… Stephen Barkway 64
Report of Society Event
Virginia in Warwickshire …… Lynne Newland and Stephen Barkway 69
Acknowledgements …… Sheila M. Wilkinson 81
For Members
New Life Members …… 83
Society events …… 83
Society events open to non-Members …… 83
Other events …… 84
Book received …… 84
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper