Issue Nos 76 to 80
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An Unpublished Letter from Angelica Garnett Maggie Humm 5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
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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)
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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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Issue No. 78, January 2025
Editorial Committee
Stephen Barkway, Sarah M. Hall (Co-Chairs)
Mary Ellen Foley, Matthew Macer-Wright, Celeste Allen
Upper wrapper: Bouchier’s Tower in the Green Court at Knole, from Eddy Sackville-West’s tower on the West Front
See pp. 72–81
Photograph by Stephen Barkway, 13 September 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
The Hour, Irrevocable: Death, Time and Narration in Mrs. Dalloway D. W. White 6
From Birds to Dogs: Human and Animal Relationships in Mrs Dalloway Eleonora Tarabella 17
Virginia Woolf’s Use of the Antigone Myth Hilary Newman 22
Bloomsbury in the 1921 Census Sarah M. Hall 36
First Encounters with Virginia Woolf Béatrice De Pauw 48
Virginia Woolf Today Celeste Allen 51
Reviews
Reading Modernism’s Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller Matthew Macer-Wright 61
Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour [exhibition and catalogue] Helen Rees Leahy 67
Report
The Nicolsons: Two National Trust Exhibitions in Kent, 2024–5 Stephen Barkway 72
For Members
Society Events—Members Only 82
Society Events—Non-Members Welcome 82
Other Events 82
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Issue No. 79, May 2025
Editorial Committee
Stephen Barkway, Sarah M. Hall (Co-Chairs)
Mary Ellen Foley, Matthew Macer-Wright, Celeste Allen
Upper wrapper: White’s, 37 St James’s Street, London
Photograph by Stephen Barkway, 20 November 2011
‘Tall men, men of robust physique, well-dressed men with their tail-coats and their white slips and their hair raked back who, for reasons difficult to discriminate,
were standing in the bow window of White’s with their hands behind the tails of their coats, looking out.’ (MD 15–16)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial Stephen Barkway 3
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works 4
Letters from Virginia Woolf to Harcourt, Brace and Company Virginia Woolf
Note Stuart N. Clarke 5
Writing the ‘Biography’ of Mrs Dalloway Mark Hussey 21
‘Little’ Women: Rezia Warren Smith’s Perspective Sue Roe 23
Mrs Dalloway Centenary: A Walk Through My Library Ben Majchrowicz 37
Mrs Dalloway: Illness and a Sense of Loss in the Main Characters Giuseppe Laurenza 46
Beyond Borders—In Dialogue with Virginia Woolf Steven Van Der Heyden 52
How I Discovered Virginia Woolf John Rogers 56
Virginia Woolf Today Celeste Allen 58
Reviews
Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel Helen Rees Leahy 63
The Bloomsbury Photographs Celeste Allen 69
Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury Sarah Latham Phillips 72
Reports
Twenty-Fourth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture Stephen Barkway 75
Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury Festival, Antwerp Claire Nicholson 76
For Members
Society Events—Members Only 81
Society Events—Non-Members Welcome 81
Other Events 81
Twenty-Sixth Annual General Meeting 83
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Issue No. 80, September 2025
Editorial Committee
Stephen Barkway, Sarah M. Hall (Co-Chairs)
Mary Ellen Foley, Matthew Macer-Wright, Celeste Allen
Upper wrapper: Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LE
Courtesy of Hatchards Archive
The young Virginia Stephen visited Hatchards on her birthday in 1897, and on 13 and 20 March 1905 (PA 21, 251, 254).
‘But what was she dreaming as she looked into Hatchards’ shop window? What was she trying to recover? What image of white dawn in the country […] There were Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities; there were Soapy Sponge and Mrs Asquith’s Memoirs and Big Game Shooting in Nigeria, all spread open. Ever so many books there were […].’ (MD, OUP, 2009, 8)
Photograph on rear wrapper and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway
Hatchards began its life at the end of the eighteenth century. Just as London’s West End was becoming fashionable, John Hatchard, after fourteen years of apprenticeship and employment, decided to set up a Shop of His Own at 173 Piccadilly, shortly afterwards moving to number 187 (Mr Hatchard claimed he made a deposit of just £5 for the site). It was the beginning of a centuries-long tradition of bookselling at this address. The cover photograph is part of the archive at Hatchards, which houses books, letters and catalogues dating from the 1790s, as well as photographs and magazine articles. It’s the very same shop front that Woolf’s Clarissa Dalloway would have gazed into in 1923. What white dawn might occur to you the next time you stroll down Piccadilly, dreamily looking in at deep shelves of books?
Thanks to Saskia Wraith, Hatchards Piccadilly
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial Sarah M. Hall 3
Abbreviations for Virginia Woolf’s Works 4
The Last Omitted Words in the Diary of Virginia Woolf Edward Mendelson 5
‘Here’s to Kitty’s place in history’: Kitty Maxse and Clarissa Dalloway David Taylor 7
Animating the Age: Remembering Madge Vaughan Eileen Francis 21
Virginia Woolf and Proust: A Personal (Re-)Reading of Mrs Dalloway Béatrice De Pauw 27
An Ecocritical Excursus on Pre- and Post-Human Lives in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and To the Lighthouse Eleonora Tarabella 35
Finding Virginia Woolf in My Sixties Liz Taylor 40
A Room of One’s Own in Antwerp—A Rare Books Exhibition Ben Majchrowicz 43
Virginia Woolf Today Celeste Allen 52
Reviews
Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene Helen Rees Leahy 58
Theory & Practice Maggie Humm 62
The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf Matthew Macer-Wright 65
Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical Helen Rees Leahy 75
For Members
Society Events—Members Only 82
Society Events—Non-Members Welcome 82
Other Events 82
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