Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Virginia Woolf
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Standard Name: Woolf, Virginia
Birth Name: Adeline Virginia Stephen
Nickname: Ginia
Married Name: Adeline Virginia Woolf
Thousands of readers over three or four generations have known that Virginia Woolf was—by a beadle—denied access to the library of a great university. They may have known, too, that she was a leading intellect of the twentieth century. If they are feminist readers they will know that she thought . . . back through her mothers and also sideways through her sisters and that she contributed more than any other in the twentieth century to the recovery of women's writing.
Marcus, Jane. “Introduction”. New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf, edited by Jane Marcus, Macmillan, p. i - xx.
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Educated in her father's library and in a far more than usually demanding school of life, she radically altered the course not only of the English tradition but also of the several traditions of literature in English.
Froula, Christine. Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde. Columbia University Press.
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She wrote prodigiously—nine published novels, as well as stories, essays (including two crucial books on feminism, its relation to education and to war), diaries, letters, biographies (both serious and burlesque), and criticism. As a literary journalist in a wide range of forums, she addressed the major social issues of her time in more than a million words.
Woolf, Virginia. “Introduction; Editorial Note”. The Essays of Virginia Woolf, edited by Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, pp. vols. 1 - 4: various pages.
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She left a richly documented life in words, inventing a modern fiction, theorising modernity, writing the woman into the picture. She built this outstandingly influential work, which has had its impact on both writing and life, on her personal experience, and her fictions emerge to a striking degree from her life, her gender, and her moment in history. In a sketch of her career written to Ethel Smyth
she said that a short story called An Unwritten Novelwas the great discovery . . . . That—again in one second—showed me how I could embody all my deposit of experience in a shape that fitted it.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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Publishing
Viola Tree
Virginia Woolf
found that the production of this book required a lot of work in the closing stages from her as publisher. She received the (apparently corrected) proofs by 2 March in a state calculated...
Publishing
Dora Carrington
Carrington
contributed four illustrative woodcuts to Two Stories, the first publication of Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
's Hogarth Press
; she was paid 15s for this work.
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson.
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Julia Strachey
JS
wrote the novel while staying with her aunt Dorothy Bussy
's family at Roquebrune in France, informally separated from her first husband, Stephen Tomlin
.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown.
In a letter to Ethel Smyth
on 1 March 1937, Virginia Woolf
described this work as a manuscript thrust on us.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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H. G. Wells
HGW
published the earlier parts of The Outline of History, which has an important presence in Woolf
's last novel, Between the Acts.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
McKillop, A. Brian. The Spinster and the Prophet. Macfarlane Walter and Ross.
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Viola Tree
Michael Burn
wrote an introduction for this book, and VT
's half-uncle Max Beerbohm
wrote a letter which served as prefatory material. The book draws on a scrapbook or commonplace-book kept by Parsons: hence its...
Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon.
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Julia Strachey
JS
was interested in the theatre both before and after she met her husband, Lawrence Gowing
, a prominent artist whose work included some set design and painting.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown.
159-61, 172
During the late 1930s and...
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Hilary Mantel
HM
's contributions to the London Review of Books include memoir pieces such as Someone to Disturb, January 2009, about a failed attempt to build a friendship in Jeddah, across the barriers of...
Publishing
T. S. Eliot
Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
published the first English edition of TSE
's The Waste Land at the Hogarth Press
in Richmond.
Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Harcourt, Brace.
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Woolmer, J. Howard. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1938. Hogarth Press.
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Kathleen Raine
KR
knew as a child that poetry was her vocation. Her mother wrote down her poems before she could hold a pencil herself.
Watts, Janet. “Kathleen Raine”. The Guardian, p. 25.
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As an undergraduate she had poems published by William Empson
in...
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Violet Trefusis
When VT
met Virginia Woolf
for tea in London in November 1932, she asked her to publish this novel at the Hogarth Press
, Woolf declined.
Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo.
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Holroyd, Michael. “A Tale of Three Novels”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 31-2.
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The Feminist Companion incorrectly lists the Hogarth Press
