Virginia Woolf

A Guide to Research

Thomas Jackson Rice

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781138476011
• eBook ISBN: 9781351106191
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Originally published in 1984, Virginia Woolf: Guide to Research is a bibliographic guide to the writings and critical reception of the works of Virginia Woolf. The guide is a simply organized guide that makes easily accessible, a diversified body of critical works on Virginia Woolf. The scholarship is organised into key collections, based around Woolf's major works of fiction, and contains studies from a variety of content, including periodicals, articles, book chapters as well as foreign-language books.

Part 1
Primary Bibliography

A. MAJOR WORKS

This slightly annotated, chronological checklist provides initial English and American publication information for VW’s principal writings and for posthumously published anthologies, collections, and selections of her works. The annotations supply contents for collections (complete for story collections, selective for essay collections), original separate publication dates for collected writings, cross-references to whole or partial reprintings, and other important publication information (including cross-references to textual commentaries and publishing histories). For VW’s posthumously published autobiographical writings, diaries, and letters, see section B below. For scholarly editions and transcriptions of her manuscripts, see section C below. And for full bibliographical data on all VW’s publications, through 1979, see Kirkpatrick’s bibliography (E7).

The following section is subdivided into three parts:

A, i. Novels (A1-A9)

A, ii. Short Fiction (A10-A16)

A, iii. Miscellaneous Writings (A17-A39)

A, i. Novels

A1 THE VOYAGE OUT. London: Duckworth, 1915. New York: Doran, 1920.

For manuscript information see C2. For textual commentaries see G41, H121, J2, J6, J9, and J15.

A2 NIGHT AND DAY. London: Duckworth, 1919. New York: Doran, 1920.

For textual commentary see H121.

A3 JACOB’S ROOM. London: Hogarth, 1922. New York: Harcourt, 1923.

For textual commentary see H121.

A4 MRS. DALLOWAY. London: Hogarth; New York: Harcourt, 1925.

For textual commentaries see M36, M38, M47, M51, and M81. Also see A16, A20, and T6.

A5 TO THE LIGHTHOUSE. London: Hogarth; New York: Harcourt, 1927.

For manuscript information see C7. For textual commentaries see N28 and N62.

A6 ORLANDO: A BIOGRAPHY. New York: Crosby Gaige; London: Hogarth, 1928.

For manuscript information see C9. For textual commentary see P15.

A7 THE WAVES. London: Hogarth; New York: Harcourt, 1931.

For manuscript information see C6. For textual commentaries see Q24-Q26, Q30. And for a concordance see D2.

A8 THE YEARS. London: Hogarth; New York: Harcourt, 1937.

For manuscript information see C3. For textual commentaries see R3, R7, R9, R11, R19, R20, and R24.

A9 BETWEEN THE ACTS. London: Hogarth; New York: Harcourt, 1941.

For manuscript information see C5. For textual commentary see S18. And for a concordance see D1.

A, ii. Short Fiction

Listed here are all uncollected stories, separately published stories, and story collections, including posthumous publications. Dates for previous periodical publication of individual stories in the collections are provided in the annotations. For fuller publication data, see Kirkpatrick (E7). Also see C8.

A10 THE MARK ON THE WALL. Richmond, Engl.: Hogarth, 1917.

Contains the title story (revised and reprinted in A12 and A13) and Leonard Woolf’s “Three Jews.” First publication of the Woolfs’ Hogarth Press.

A11 KEW GARDENS. Richmond, Engl.: Hogarth, 1919.

Separately published story, reprinted in A12 and A13.

A12 MONDAY OR TUESDAY. Richmond, Engl.: Hogarth; New York: Harcourt, 1921.

Contents:

“A Haunted House”

“A Society”

“Monday or Tuesday”

“An Unwritten Novel” (1920)

“The String Quartet”

“Blue and Green”

“Kew Gardens” (above)

“The Mark on the Wall” (A10)

All stories except “A Society” and “Blue and Green” reprinted below.

A13 A HAUNTED HOUSE, AND OTHER SHORT STORIES. London: Hogarth; New York: Harcourt, 1944.

Contents:

“A Haunted House” (A12)

“Monday or Tuesday” (A12)

“An Unwritten Novel” (A12)

“The String Quartet” (A12)

“Kew Gardens” (All, A12)

“The Mark on the Wall” (A10, A12)

“The New Dress” (1927)

“The Shooting Party” (1938)

“Lappin and Lapinova” (1939)

“Solid Objects” (1920)

“The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection” (1929)

“The Duchess and the Jeweller” (1938)

“Moments of Being: ‘Slater’s Pins Have No Points’” (1928)

“The Man Who Loved His Kind”

“The Searchlight”

“The Legacy”

“Together and Apart”

“A Summing Up”

Four stories reprinted in A16.

A14 NURSE LUGTON’S GOLDEN THIMBLE. London: Hogarth, 1966.

Uncollected and previously unpublished children’s story, discovered in 1965.

A15 A COCKNEY’S FARMING EXPERIENCES. Ed. Suzanne Henig. San Diego, Calif.: San Diego State Univ. Press, 1972.

Two uncollected and previously unpublished early stories (c. 1892). Includes the title story and the unfinished “Experiences of a Pater-familias.” See T15.

A16 MRS. DALLOWAY’S PARTY: A SHORT STORY SEQUENCE. Ed. Stella McNichol. London: Hogarth, 1973. New York: Harcourt, 1975.

Seven stories, four previously collected, directly or thematically related to VW’s novel, MD. Contents:

“Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street” (1923)

“The Man Who Loved His Kind” (in A13)

“The Introduction”

“Ancestors”

“Together and Apart” (in A13)

“The New Dress” (in A13)

“A Summing Up” (in A13)

See T20.

A, iii. Miscellaneous Writings

For full contents of the various essay collections listed here, as well as complete listings of VW’s contributions to books, periodical publications, translations, and other miscellaneous nonfiction, see Kirkpatrick (E7). Also see C1, C5, C10, and X48.

A17 STAVROGIN’S CONFESSION AND THE PLAN OF THE LIFE OF A GREAT SINNER, BY F. M. DOSTOEVSKY. Trans. S. S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf. Richmond, Engl.: Hogarth, 1922.

VW’s and Koteliansky’s first, and most significant collaborative translation.

A18 MR. BENNETT AND MRS. BROWN. London: Hogarth, 1924.

Separately published essay, first in the “Hogarth Essays” series. Previously published in 1923, in an earlier version, and, in its present version, as “Character in Fiction” (1924). Collected in A28, A31, A32, and G49. Also see F48 and H16.

A19 THE COMMON READER. London: Hogarth; New York: Harcourt, 1925.

Collects twenty-five biographical and critical essays, including the title essay, “Defoe,” “Addison,” “Jane Austen,” “Modern Fiction” (reprinted in A31, G44, and Nl), “JANE EYRE and WUTHERING HEIGHTS,” “George Eliot,” “The Russian Point of View,” and “Joseph Conrad.” All essays reprinted in A32.

A20 “Introduction.” In MRS. DALLOWAY. New York: Modern Library, 1928. Pp. v-ix.

VW’s important revelation that Mrs. Dalloway “was originally to kill herself, or perhaps merely to die” at the novel’s end. Reprinted in G44.

A21 A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN. New York: Fountain Press; London: Hogarth, 1929.

Extracts reprinted in A31.

A22 THE COMMON READER: SECOND SERIES. London: Hogarth, 1932. Published as THE SECOND COMMON READER. New York: Harcourt, 1932.

Collects twenty-six biographical and critical essays, including “ROBINSON CRUSOE,” “THE SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY,” “Beau Brummell” (also separately published, 1930), “Mary Wollstonecraft,” “Dorothy Wordsworth,” “George Gissing,” “The Novels of George Meredith,” and “The Novels of Thomas Hardy.” All essays reprinted in A32.

A23 FLUSH: A BIOGRAPHY. London: Hogarth; New York: Harcourt, 1933.

A24 THREE GUINEAS. London: Hogarth; New York: Harcourt, 1938.

Extracts reprinted in A31.

A25 ROGER FRY: A BIOGRAPHY. London: Hogarth; New York: Harcourt, 1940.

A26 THE DEATH OF THE MOTH, AND OTHER ESSAYS. Ed. Leonard Woolf. London: Hogarth; New York: Harcourt, 1942.

Collects twenty-eight biographical and critical essays and sketches, including the title sketch, “Street Haunting: A London Adventure” (also separately published, 1930), “Henry James” (three essays), “George Moore,” “The Novels of E. M. Forster,” “The Art of Biography,” “A Letter to a Young Poet” (also separately published, 1932), and “Professions for Women” (reprinted...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Periodical Abbreviations
• Part 1: Primary Bibliography
• Part 2: Secondary Bibliography
• INDEXES