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THREE NEW

monographs

General Editor: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Emily Kopley

Virginia Woolf and the Thirties Poets

This monograph investigates in depth the tension between Woolf and thegeneration of male poets who first came to public attention in the 1930s, ageneration that included W.H. Auden, Julian Bell, Cecil Day-Lewis, JohnLehmann, Louis MacNeice, Peter Quennell, and Stephen Spender. Whilethe poets’ youth, gender, homosociality and manner of turning politics intopoetics irritated Woolf, their favoured genre especially prompted hercriticism. In her two essays on the younger poets, the 1932 Letter to a

Young Poet and the 1940 The Leaning Tower, Woolf argues that lyric poetryno longer reflects contemporary life and that more powerful vehicles mightbe mixed-genre modes, the novel, and autobiography (forms she herselfpursued). Far from antagonistic in turn, many of the young poets accommodated Woolf’s combativeargument by claiming her novels as, in fact, poetry, and expressing appreciation of Woolf’s prose throughtheir verse, both during her lifetime and after. This important study traces allusions exchanged betweenWoolf and the 1930s poets to reveal mutual engagement and influence. Further, this exhaustive essay drawsin part on lesser-known published documents and on unpublished archival material to clarify a major cross-generational debate about literary form.Bloomsbury Heritage series No. 60, perfectbound paperback, 76pp., incl. illustrations,

ISBN 978-1-907286-20-9, price £10.50

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Mary Ann Caws

How Vita Matters

Among the extraordinary proliferation of genres in which Vita Sackville-West wrote, all of which figure in Professor Mary Ann Caws’s Selected

Writings of Vita Sackville-West, the present monograph concentrates onthose which seemed most likely to last in the affection and admiration oftwenty-first century readers. Mary Ann’s own candidates are Vita’s diaryand memoir-writing, including the Dream Book, her travel writing, herreflections on animals and gardening, her short stories and one or two ofher novels, quite different from the selection which might have been madeby the reading public of Vita’s time.Bloomsbury Heritage series No. 61, card wrappers, 24pp., incl. portrait

frontispiece, ISBN 978-1-907286-22-3, price £5.50

Mark Hussey

‘I’d Make It Penal’, The Rural Preservation

Movement in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

The image of Virginia Woolf as an ethereal stylist far removed from the

ordinary concerns of daily life has been shattered by recent scholarship that

demonstrates how deeply immersed in the life of her times her fiction is.

Allusions and references that seem at first sight random or obscure to us

would have been instantly recognizable to her contemporaries as lifted

from the daily newspapers. In The Rural Preservation Movement in

Virginia Woolf’s ‘Between the Acts’, Mark Hussey illustrates in highly

readable form how conversation about the relations between town and

country, and the fierce debates of the inter-war years over the development

of the British countryside infuse Woolf’s last novel. Set in a remote village

on a summer’s day in 1939, Between the Acts is populated by characters

who chat about the issues of the day: ugly bungalows being built on the

Downs, the challenge of litter from day-trippers, and the lures of urban

pleasures that have depleted the farm labour force.

Bloomsbury Heritage series No. 62, card wrappers, 16pp.,

ISBN 978-1-907286-23-0, price £5.50

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Two important reissues

Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Virginia Woolf, Life and London:

Bloomsbury and Beyond

Virginia Woolf stands with Dickens, Pepys and Dr Johnson in her intense

response to London. She was born and lived there all her life. But how

exactly was she affected by the town which had seemed both vitally

necessary and fatally destructive to her? This important book, first

published in 1987 and now available again in a revised edition, provides

an original and entertaining answer to that question, with its dual portrait

of the great writer and her London. Susan Hill in a review described

Virginia Woolf, Life and London as ‘A new and very unusual book about

Virginia Woolf − So original and so fascinating, there is no complete

evocation like this one − It not only takes the reader through the streets and

squares of Kensington and Bloomsbury, but explains why those areas had

such poetic significance in the novels − it made me reread the novels with

a fresh eye’. Since this is a guide to ‘Bloomsbury and Beyond’, a special

feature of the book is a series of superb line drawings by Leonard

McDermid.

Demy 8vo, perfectbound, 256pp., ISBN 978-1-907286-04-9, price £11.95. Casebound edition,

ISBN 978-1-907286-12-4, price to be announced

Mark Hussey

Virginia Woolf A-Z

Virginia Woolf A-Z, of which Cecil Woolf Publishers are delighted to issue

the first British edition, is the only comprehensive, single-volume

reference on one of the most innovative writers of the 20th century and one

of the few modern writers whose place in the literary canon is assured.

Praised by critics for the subtlety of novels like Mrs Dalloway and To the

Lighthouse, revered by feminists as the author of A Room of One’s Own,

and called by some ‘the last of the great English essayists’, Woolf attracted

an early coterie of followers that in the last few decades has grown to a

vast, international readership.

This extraordinary encyclopedia sorts out the volumes of information

available on Woolf’s life and work:

• detailed synopses of all major and most minor works, including

overviews of their critical reception

• descriptions of every character, both fictional and factual

• biographies of Woolf’s contemporaries, including family members, friends, lovers, and the Bloomsbury

Group members

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• explanations of literary terms associated with her work, such as modernism, formalism, stream-of-

consciousness

• identification of place names both from her life and her fiction

• accounts of adaptations, including Sally Potter’s acclaimed film Orlando

In addition, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced. An appendix lists every entry by subject category, and

the extensive bibliography is organized both alphabetically and by subject. Nine family trees map out the

complicated relationships and living arrangements of the Bloomsberries, and a chronologiy gives a quick

overview of the major events of Woolf’s life. For students, teachers and common readers, Professor

Hussey’s magisterial work is quite simply indispensable.

Large format perfectbound paperback, 464pp., profusely illustrated, ISBN 978-1-907286-19-3 £17.50.

Casebound edition ISBN 978-1-907286-21-6, price to be announced

A Complete List of Earlier Monographs in the Series

1.  Virginia Woolf, A COCKNEY’S FARMING EXPERIENCES, £5.00

2.  Virginia Woolf, ROGER FRY; A SERIES OF IMPRESSIONS, £5.00

3.  Jean Moorcroft Wilson, LEONARD WOOLF: PIVOT OR OUTSIDER OFBLOOMSBURY, £5.00

4.  Mary Ann Caws, BLOOMSBURY IN CASSIS, £5.00

5.  Jean Moorcroft Wilson, VIRGINIA WOOLF’S WAR TRILOGY: ANTICIPATINGTHREE GUINEAS, £5.00

6.  Mary Ann Caws, CARRINGTON AND LYTTON: ALONE TOGETHER, £5.00

7.  Abigail Willis, BLOOMSBURY CERAMICS, £6.00

8.  Jean Moorcroft Wilson, VIRGINIA WOOLF AND ANTI-SEMITISM, £5.00

9.  Sarah Bird Wright, STAYING AT MONKS HOUSE: ECHOES OF THE WOOLFS,£5.00

10. Patricia Laurence, VIRGINIA WOOLF AND THE EAST, £5.00

11. Jane Marcus, VIRGINIA WOOLF, CAMBRIDGE AND A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN:‘THE PROPER UPKEEP OF NAMES’, £7.50

12. Elizabeth Steele, VIRGINIA WOOLF AND COMPANIONS – A FEMINISTDOCUMENT – A PLAY, £5.50

13. Peter Stansky, WILLIAM MORRIS AND BLOOMSBURY, £5.50

14. Clive Bell, ROGER FRY: ANECDOTES, FOR THE USE OF A FUTUREBIOGRAPHER, ILLUSTRATING CERTAIN PECULIARITIES OF THE LATEROGER FRY, Edited by Diane F. Gillespie, £6.00

15. LEONARD AND VIRGINIA WOOLF WORKING TOGETHER; AND THEHITHERTO UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT ‘INL RENS’, Edited by Wayne K.Chapman and Janet Manson, £5.50

16. Laila Miletic-Vejzovic, A LIBRARY OF ONE’S OWN: THE LIBRARY OFLEONARD AND VIRGINIA WOOLF, £5.50

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17. Gwen Anderson, ETHEL SMYTH: THE BURNING ROSE: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY,£5.50

18. Kathryn N. Benzel, CHARLESTON: A VOICE IN THE HOUSE, £7.50

19. Nicola Luckhurst, BLOOMSBURY IN VOGUE, £6.50

20. Michael Yoss, RAYMOND MORTIMER: A BLOOMSBURY VOICE, £5.50

21. Rachel Tranter, VANESSA BELL, A LIFE OF PAINTING, £7.50

22. Leonard Woolf, MONARCHY: AN HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED MS, £7.50

23. Marion Dell, PEERING THROUGH THE ESCALLONIA: VIRGINIA WOOLF,TALLAND HOUSE AND ST IVES, £7.50

24. Chistopher Reed, ROGER FRY’S DURBINS: A HOUSE AND ITS MEANINGS, £7.50

25. Susan Richardson, VIRGINIA WOOLF AND SYLVIA PLATH – TWO OF ME NOW:A POETIC DRAMA, £5.50

26. Carol Hansen, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ASHAM: LEONARD AND VIRGINIA’SHAUNTED HOUSE, £7.50

27. Alan Isaac, VIRGINIA WOOLF, THE UNCOMMON BOOKBINDER, £7.50

28. E.M. Forster, THE FEMININE NOTE IN LITERATURE – AN HITHERTOUNPUBLISHED MS, Edited by George Piggford £7.50

29. John Lello, THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP IN VENICE, Illustrated by Sandra Lello,£7.50

30. Vanessa Curtis, STELLA AND VIRGINIA: AN UNFINISHED SISTERHOOD, £7.50

31. Nicola Luckhurst and Martine Ravache, VIRGINIA WOOLF IN CAMERA, £7.50

32. Hilary Newman, DEATH IN THE LIFE & NOVELS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, £6.00

33. Alister Raby, VIRGINIA WOOLF’S WISE AND WITTY QUAKER AUNT: ABIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF CAROLINE EMILIA STEPHEN, £6.00

34. David H. Porter, VIRGINIA WOOLF AND LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH: ‘ANEXQUISITELY FLATTERING DUET’, £6.50

35. Hilary Newman, VIRGINIA WOOLF AND KATHERINE MANSFIELD, ACREATIVE RIVALRY, £6.50

36. Michael Tatham, DORA CARRINGTON, FACT INTO FICTION, £6.50

37. David H. Porter, VIRGINIA WOOLF AND THE HOGARTH PRESS: ‘RIDING AGREAT HORSE’, £6.50

38. Philip Neale, HAM SPRAY: LYTTON & CARRINGTON’S COUNTRY RETREAT,£7.00

39. Lytton Strachey, A SON OF HEAVEN: A TRAGIC MELODRAMA, Edited by GeorgeSimson, £10.00

40. Roberta Rubenstein, REMINISCENCES OF LEONARD WOOLF, £6.00

41. Nuala Hancock, GARDENS IN THE WORK OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, £7.50

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42. Gill Lowe, VERSIONS OF JULIA: FIVE BIOGRAPHICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OFJULIA STEPHEN, £8.00

43. S.P. Rosenbaum, CONVERSATION WITH JULIAN FRY, £5.50

44. John Lello, ROGER FRY, APOSTLE OF GOOD TASTE AND VENICE, Illustrated bySandra Lello, £6.50

45. Hilary Newman, LAURA STEPHEN, A MEMOIR, £7.00

46. Patricia Laurence, JULIAN BELL, THE VIOLENT PACIFIST, £7.50

47. Hilary Newman, JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN: VIRGINIA WOOLF’S TRAGICCOUSIN, £7.50

48. John Shaw, THE QUEST FOR LURIANA: THE STORY OF A BLOOMSBURYPOEM, £7.50

49. Hilary Newman, ANNE THACKERAY RITCHIE: HER INFLUENCE ON THEWORK OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, £7.50

50. Emilie Crapoulet, VIRGINIA WOOLF: A MUSICAL LIFE, £7.50

51. Julie Singleton, A HISTORY OF MONKS HOUSE AND VILLAGE OF RODMELL,SUSSEX HOME OF LEONARD AND VIRGINIA WOOLF, £7.50

52. Diana Gardner, THE RODMELL PAPERS: REMINISCENCES OF VIRGINIA ANDLEONARD WOOLF BY A SUSSEX NEIGHBOUR, £6.50

53. David H. Porter, THE OMEGA WORKSHOPS AND THE HOGARTH PRESS: ANARTFUL FUGUE, £7.50

54. Paula Maggio, READING THE SKIES IN VIRGINIA WOOLF: WOOLF ONWEATHER IN HER ESSAYS, DIARIES, AND THREE OF HER NOVELS, £7.50

55. Drew Patrick Shannon, HOW SHOULD ONE READ A MARRIAGE? PRIVATEWRITINGS, PUBLIC READINGS, AND LEONARD AND VIRGINIA WOOLF, Notyet published

56. Catherine Hollis, LESLIE STEPHEN AS MOUNTAINEER, £10.00

57. Catherine Gregg, VIRGINIA WOOLF AND ‘DRESS MANIA’, £10.00

58. Alice Lowe, BEYOND THE ICON: VIRGINIA WOOLF IN CONTEMPORARYFICTION, £6.00

59. Todd Avery, DESMOND AND MOLLY MacCARTHY: BLOOMSBERRIES, £6.00

Cecil Woolf Publishers appreciate proposals for future monographs and

welcome submissions. Full catalogue of this series sent on request.

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