Virginia Woolf

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Woolf Observed

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Notes on Virginia’s Childhood

      • Vanessa Bell

      Pages 3-8

   3. Cousin Virginia

      • Dame Janet Vaughan

      Pages 9-12

   4. Meeting Virginia Woolf

      • Siegfried Sassoon

      Pages 12-13

   5. Mrs Woolf Comes to Dinner

      • E. E. Duncan-Jones, U. K. N. Stevenson

      Pages 14-15

   6. Virginia Woolf at Girton

      • Kathleen Raine

      Pages 15-17

   7. Tea with Virginia Woolf

      • G. E. Easdale

      Pages 17-20

   8. Virginia

      • Enid Bagnold

      Pages 20-21

3. Moments of Being

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. The Diary of Sydney Waterlow

      • J. H. Stape

      Pages 25-26

   3. At the Theatre

      • Berta Ruck

      Pages 26-27

   4. The Diary of Lady Ottoline Morrell

      • J. H. Stape

      Pages 27-29

   5. Mr Bennett and Mrs Woolf

      • Arnold Bennett

      Pages 29-30

   6. The Diary of Beatrice Webb

      • Beatrice Webb

      Pages 30-33

   7. A Week in France with Virginia Woolf

      • Vita Sackville-West

      Pages 34-36

   8. At Elizabeth Bowen’s

      • Cyril Connolly

      Pages 37-37

   9. ‘She enjoyed each butterfly aspect of the world’

      • Dame Edith Sitwell

      Pages 38-39

   10. The Diary of Dame Ethel Smyth

       • J. H. Stape

       Pages 39-42

4. Among Friends

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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This volume provides multi-faceted perspectives on Virginia Woolf as observed and remembered by relatives, close friends, acquaintances and fellow writers. Gathered from scattered sources, the forty-one pieces - some published for the first time - provide an intimate portrait of a fascinating individual who many consider this century's most significant woman writer. This new and varied collection sheds light on the private and public personalities of Virginia Woolf the subtle poetic novelist, the devoted friend and the influential and successful publisher.

• chronology
• individual
• interview
• knowledge
• press
• time
• Virginia Woolf

• Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan

  J. H. Stape

Policies and ethics