Books and portraits : some further selections from the literary and biographical writings of Virginia Woolf ; edited and with a pref. by Mary Lyon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Contributor:

Lyon, Mary.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Harvest/HBJ book

A Harvest/HBJ book

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 1981

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 221 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Harvest/HBJ edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.

Summary:

Virginia Woolf's reputation as a novelist tends to overshadow her significance as a literary critic. Her first published works, however, were reviews or critical essays, and she continued to write literary criticism until her death. Only the two volumes of The Common Reader were published during her lifetime. Five additional volumes of essays were published posthumously. After the last appeared, in 1965, research uncovered well over a hundred more uncollected articles. From these Mary Lyon chose forty-eight that seemed, from both the reader's and the scholar's point of view, most important to preserve. Many were written when Virginia was still in her twenties, but from the very beginning her literary judgment was sure and her style distinctive.

Contents:

Part I Of Writing and Writers

In the Orchard 3

A Woman's College from Outside 6

On a Faithful Friend 10

English Prose 14

Impressions at Bayreuth 18

Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century 23

Men and Women 28

Coleridge as Critic 31

Patmore's Criticism 35

Papers on Pepys 39

Sheridan 44

Thomas Hood 54

Praeterita 59

Mr Kipling's Notebook 63

Emerson's Journals 67

Thoreau 72

Herman Melville 80

Rupert Brooke 85

The Intellectual Imagination 90

These Are The Plans 93

Mr Sassoon's Poems 97

A Russian Schoolboy 101

A Glance at Turgenev 106

A Giant With Very Small Thumbs 109

Dostoevsky The Father 112

More Dostoevsky 116

Dostoevsky in Cranford 120

The Russian Background 123

A Scribbling Dame 126

Maria Edgeworth and Her Circle 130

Jane Austen and the Geese 134

Mrs Gaskell 137

The Compromise 141

Wilcoxiana 144

The Genius of Boswell 149

Shelley and Elizabeth Hitchener 154

Literary Geography 158

Flumina Amem Silvasque 162

Haworth, November 1904 166

Part II Mainly Portraits

The Girlhood of Queen Elizabeth 173

The Diary of a Lady in Waiting 178

Queen Adelaide 183

Elizabeth Lady Holland 186

Lady Hester Stanhope 195

The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt 201

Lady Strachey 208

John Delane 212

Body and Brain 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Selections. 1981. Books and portraits.

ISBN:

0156135604

9780156135603

OCLC:

6864277

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