Issue No. 46, May 2014
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chair)
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin
Upper wrapper: Statue of the Duke of Cambridge, Whitehall, London (see pp. 38–40 below)
Photograph by Stuart N. Clarke, 17 September 2011
Photographs on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial ……. Stuart N. Clarke 3
Abbreviations of Virginia Woolf’s Works ……. 4
A Letter to Arthur Waley …… Virginia Woolf 5
Note …… Stephen Barkway 6
The Mark on the Shutter: Or, A Small Boy’s Conscience …… Desmond MacCarthy 8
Note …… Stuart N. Clarke 16
Writing Back Through Our Mothers: Julia Stephen’s Influence on the Work of Virginia Woolf …… Marion Dell 18
VWSGB Sixteenth AGM 27
Marjorie Strachey’s The Counterfeits: A Fictional Version of Bloomsbury …… Hilary Newman 28
The Duke of Cambridge …… Stuart N. Clarke 38
Notes and Queries
Review of Monday or Tuesday …… M. I. C. 46
Mistaking the Turning in Oxbridge …… Stuart N. Clarke 46
Mansfield and Woolf — A New Discovery …… Lindsay Martin 50
‘Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision’ …… 51
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 52
Bloomsbury Bibliomania
Poems, by G. H. Luce (Hogarth Press) …… Stephen Barkway 57
New VWSGB Life Member …… 60
Reviews
The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club …… Stuart N. Clarke 62
Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson’s Circle …… Marion Dell 65
Elizabeth of the German Garden: A Literary Journey; Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Gate …… Gerri Kimber 71
Reports of Society Events
Reading Group Meeting: ‘Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid’ …… Sarah M. Hall 76
Fifteenth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by Hermione Lee …… Stephen Barkway 79
For Members
Wendy Taylor (1940–2013) …… Ruth Webb 82
Society events …… 83
Society events open to non-Members …… 83
Other events …… 84
Free prize draw open to all VWSGB Members …… 84
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 47, September 2014
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chair),
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin
Upper wrapper: Letter from Virginia Woolf to Sibilla Aleramo, 2 August 1932 (detail) (see p. 6 below)
Photograph by Stephen Barkway
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
Abbreviations of Virginia Woolf’s Works 4
Two Letters to Sibilla Aleramo …… Virginia Woolf 5
Note …… Stephen Barkway 7
Sibilla Aleramo and the Myth of Virginia Woolf …… Giulia Negrello 8
Winner of the NPG Prize Draw 15
South Downs Walk, 12 July 2014 …… Stephen Barkway 15
Book received 15
‘With several folds of blackness on their eyes’: Awaking from the Metaphor of Sleep in To the Lighthouse …… Tim Cook 16
‘An influence upon novelists … out of all proportion to [his] own popularity’: Thomas Love Peacock and Virginia Woolf …… Hilary Newman 23
Hampton Court in The Waves …… Stuart N. Clarke 33
Notes and Queries: The Years …… Stuart N. Clarke
Kitty Leaves for the North 39
The Picture of Cologne Cathedral 42
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 49
Bloomsbury Bibliomania
Virginia Browne-Wilkinson …… Michael Pearson 57
New Life Member 59
Reviews
The Modernist Party …… Gerri Kimber 60
Virginia Woolf and December 1910 …… Claire Nicholson 63
‘With You in the Hebrides’; Virginia Woolf, Authorship and Legacy; Bella Woolf, Leonard Woolf and Ceylon …… Danell Jones 69
The Proper Writing of Lives …… Sarah M. Hall 73
The Labors of Modernism …… Beth Rigel Daugherty 76
Report
Alliance of Literary Societies 2014 AGM and Conference …… Lindsay Martin 82
For Members
Society events …… 84
Society event open to non-Members …… 84
Other events …… 84
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 48, January 2015
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chair)
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin
Upper wrapper: Max Gate, the home of Thomas Hardy, near Dorchester. On Friday 23 July 1926, the Woolfs visited Thomas Hardy and had tea with him and his second wife Florence (see D3 96–101, 25 July 1926, and pp. 29–37 & 78 below)
Photograph by Stephen Barkway, 10 September 2014
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
Abbreviations of Virginia Woolf’s Works …… 4
Letter to Eva Hubback …… Virginia Woolf 5
Note …… Stephen Barkway 6
Why Virginia Woolf Could Never Have Been Jane Austen …… Sue Roe 10
Moments of Vision: Thomas Hardy and Virginia Woolf …… Marion Dell 29
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 39
Letters to the Editor
Virginia Woolf and December 1910 …… Jane Goldman 46
…… Claire Nicholson 47
Book received …… 47
Reviews
Virginia Woolf in Manhattan …… Matthew Macer-Wright 48
Virginia Woolf’s Late Cultural Criticism …… Janfarie Skinner 51
Virginia Woolf and Music …… Karen R. Daubert 56
Virginia Woolf and Classical Music …… Stuart N. Clarke 62
Translation as Collaboration …… Gerri Kimber 66
Reports of Society Events
Hallelujah! Dame Eileen Atkins’s Dramatic Reading of A Room of One’s Own …… Mary Ellen Foley 70
…… Stephen Barkway 71
Virginia in Wessex …… Stephen Barkway 72
Acknowledgements …… Sheila M. Wilkinson 81
The Voyage Out: Centenary Perspectives …… 83
Call for papers: Virginia Woolf Miscellany …… 83
‘Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries’ …… 83
For Members
Society events …… 84
Society events open to non-Members …… 84
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 49, May 2015
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chair),
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin
Upper wrapper: Shakespeare’s Sister, imagined by Stephen Barkway (see pp. 53–6 below)
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
Abbreviations of Virginia Woolf’s Works 4
Letter to James Strachey …… Virginia Woolf 5
Note …… Stephen Barkway 6
The Shadow of Ottoline Morrell in Evelyn Murgatroyd …… Richard Whitney 7
Virginia Woolf and Ageing: The Years and Between the Acts…… Heather Ingman 17
‘A dot with strokes raying out round it’: Doodles, Eyes and the World in The Years …… Sayaka Okumura 25
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 34
The Voyage Out: Centenary Perspectives 39
Bloomsbury Bibliomania
Joan Adeney Easdale …… Michael Pearson 40
The Unicorn …… Joan Adeney Easdale 47
Reviews
Literary Aesthetics of Trauma …… Kathy Chamberlain 49
The Other Shakespeare …… Matthew Macer-Wright 53
The Writer’s Garden …… Nuala Hancock 56
Virginia Woolf and the Professions …… Kathy Chamberlain 59
Freewomen and Supermen …… Gerri Kimber 63
The Waves, ed. David Bradshaw …… Lindsay Martin 67
Virginia Woolf: Twenty-First-Century Approaches …… M. L. Banting 70
Becoming Virginia Woolf …… Marion Dell 73
Report
Unveiling the Plaque on Frome Station …… Stuart N. Clarke 78
Report of Society Event
Sixteenth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by Alexandra Harris …… Stephen Barkway 79
For Members
Rosemary Sumner (1924–2015) …… Ruth Webb 81
Seventeenth Annual General Meeting …… 83
Society events …… 84
Society event open to non-Members …… 84
Other events …… 84
New VWSGB Life Members …… 84
Society publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 50, September 2015
ISSN 1465-2579
Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke (Chair)
Stephen Barkway, Mary Ellen Foley, Sarah M. Hall, Lindsay Martin
Upper wrapper: Sibyl Colefax at Monks House, c. August 1931
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abbreviations of Virginia Woolf’s Works 2
Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
‘I’m a bat and your a butterfly’: Virginia Woolf’s Letters to Sibyl Colefax …… Stephen Barkway 4
Letters to Sibyl Colefax …… Virginia Woolf 19
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 59
Reviews
The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group …… Emily Kopley 67
Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell: A Childhood in St Ives …… Gill Lowe 73
The Cambridge Companion to ‘To the Lighthouse’ …… Matthew Macer-Wright 77
Reports of Society Events
Book Sale …… Stephen Barkway 82
South Downs Walk …… Stephen Barkway 82
For Members
Society events …… 84
Society event open to non-Members …… 84
Other events …… 84
Society Publications …… Inside front wrapper
Information for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper