Issue No. 76, May 2024
Editorial Committee
Stephen Barkway, Sarah M. Hall (Co-Chairs)
Mary Ellen Foley, Lynne Newland, Matthew Macer-Wright
Upper wrapper: The tomb of Edward Gibbon (1737–94) in the Sheffield Chapel at the Church of St Andrew and St Mary the Virgin, in Fletching, East Sussex
‘The only book I read is Gibbon, for I’ve promised to write a centenary on him [‘The Historian and “The Gibbon”’, TLS, 24 April 1937]. Yesterday we drove in the bright June sun to Fletching to see his tomb; but as it was Christmas the tomb—you know my passions for the tombs of the great—was obscured by a nativity play.’ (Letter from Virginia Woolf to Julian Bell, Christmas Day 1936, Modern Fiction Studies, 30 (1984): 195)
Photograph by Stephen Barkway, 1 January 2024
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
An Unpublished Letter from Angelica Garnett Maggie Humm 5
Letter to Dorothea Scott Angelica Garnett 7
Playing Bridge with the Woolfs Stuart N. Clarke 9
Uncertainty in The Years Hilary Newman 15
Mrs Dalloway Cordially Invites You to Join Her at Downton Abbey Itziar Hernández Rodilla 31
‘The Mark on the Wall’ and the Missing Punctuation Mark Daisy Birch 37
Finding Woolf at Eighteen, Falling in Love Sovay M. Hansen 43
Notes and Queries
More on the Woolfs’ Journeys between London and Monks House Stuart N. Clarke 46
Has ‘The Mystery of the Gift to Virginia Woolf’ Been Solved? Howard Ginsberg 50
Virginia Woolf Today Celeste Allen 53
Reviews
Rural Hours. The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann Helen Rees Leahy 59
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: Bookmarked James T. Bowen 62
The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax Mary Ellen Foley 65
Orlando, My Political Biography (film) Sarah M. Hall 72
Reports of Society Events
Twenty-Third Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture Stephen Barkway 74
Chair’s Report, Annual General Meeting Claire Nicholson 77
John Shaw, 1932–2024 Marion Dell 80
For Members
Society Events—Members Only 81
Society Events—Non-Members Welcome 81
Other Events 81
Twenty-Fifth Annual General Meeting 84
Society Publications Inside front wrapper
Information for Contributors Inside rear wrapper
Issue No. 77, September 2024
Editorial Committee
Stephen Barkway, Sarah M. Hall (Co-Chairs)
Mary Ellen Foley, Lynne Newland, Matthew Macer-Wright
Upper wrapper: Lime Kiln Farm, Chalvington, East Sussex
Photograph by Stephen Barkway, 1 June 2024
‘[W]e went to see the farm at Lime Kiln […] The oasts had umbrella spokes poking out at the top: all was so ruined and faded. The Tudor farm house was almost blind; very small eyebrowed windows.’ (D3 189, 8 August 1928)
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial Stephen Barkway 3
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works 4
Virginia Woolf: Bookbinder and Typesetter Reanna Brooks 5
‘A line, there, in the centre’: The Postwar Vision of Woolf’s To The Lighthouse Noor Zohdy 23
The Woolfs and the Webbs: Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Anti-Imperialist Activism against British Colonial Policy in Kenya Marielle O’Neill 31
Notes and Queries
Virginia Woolf in Paris Stephen Barkway 47
Virginia Woolf Today Celeste Allen 50
Reviews
The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume 3 Stephen Barkway 57
Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War Matthew Macer-Wright 62
Virginia Woolf and the Lives, Works, and Afterlives of the Brontës Ruth Webb 67
Mrs Dalloway Centenary The Editors 75
Reports of Society Events
A Reflection on DallowayDay 2024 Laura Cloke 76
The Journey Not the Arrival Matters Marielle O’Neill 79
For Members
Society Events—Members Only 82
Society Events—Non-Members Welcome 82
Other Events 82
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Information for Contributors Inside rear wrapper