The Platform of Time …… Sarah M. Hall 63

Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies …… Mary Ellen Foley 65

A Sussex Guide: Bloomsbury in Sussex …… Vanessa Curtis 71

The 2007 Leslie Stephen Lecture, University of Cambridge …… Theresa Daly 73

‘Dora Carrington (1893–1932)’: Exhibition in New York …… Kathy Chamberlain 73

Reports of Society events

Reading Group Meeting: Roger Fry: A Biography …… Sarah M. Hall 77

Summer Study Day: Orlando: A Biography …… Claire Nicholson 79

Joanne Trautmann Banks (1941–2007) ……  84

Society events  …… 84

Other events  …… 84

Society Publications  ……  Inside front wrapper

Instructions for contributors  ……  Inside rear wrapper

 

ISSN 1465-2579

Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall,  Sheila M. Wilkinson

 

wrapper: 65 St Margaret’s Road, Twickenham
‘That October [1914], they took lodgings at 65 St Margaret’s Road, Twickenham’
(Virginia Woolf, by James King [London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994], p. 220) (see p. 75, below)

 

 

Julia Ruth Briggs (1943–2007)  …… Stuart N. Clarke 3
Letters from Virginia  …… Virginia Woolf 4
Edited by Stephen Barkway
Competition  …… 11
A Previously Unrecorded Review by Virginia Woolf  …… Michael H. Whitworth 12
Some Poetic Plays  …… 16
‘The roughness of the fibre’: Storytelling and Sensation in The Waves  …… Gillian Beer 21
Haiku  …… Peter Wallis 29
Flush as an Example of Virginia Woolf’s Art of Biography  …… Hilary Newman 30
Who’s Afraid of Berta Ruck?  …… Elaine Jackson 38
Books received  …… 52
New Life Members  …… 52
Finding Virginia Woolf: A Tribute to Bill Woodgate  …… Karen Whitaker 53
Virginia Woolf Today  …… Stephen Barkway 54

Reviews
Mrs Woolf and the Servants  …… Stuart N. Clarke 59
Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere  …… Stuart N. Clarke 61
Locating Woolf  …… Gail Toms 64
Virginia Woolf and Trauma  …… Reina van der Wiel 68
A Life of One’s Own  …… Karen Whitaker 72
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group in Twickenham  …… Stephen Barkway 74
Reports of Society events
Reading Group Meeting: Freshwater: A Comedy  …… Sarah M. Hall 75
Reading Group Meeting: The Complete Shorter Fiction, Early Stories  …… Sarah M. Hall 78
For Members
Society events  …… 82
‘In the Footsteps of Virginia Woolf’  …… 82
Other events  …… 83
Society Publications……  Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors …… Inside rear wrapper

 

Issue No. 28, May 2008
ISSN 1465-2579

 

Editorial Committee
Stuart N. Clarke,
Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Curtis, Sarah M. Hall, Sheila M. Wilkinson

 

wrapper: Crouch Farm House, near Sevenoaks, Kent, where the Woolfs visited the Easdale family

‘And it began with the car getting fixed in the gate post, Mrs. Woolf coming in by the kitchen garden, and our manservant unscrewing the front bumper before Mr. Woolf could drive in’ (Middle Age 1885–1932 [London: Constable, 1935], p. 291)

 

Photographs on wrappers and wrappers designed by Stephen Barkway

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Editorial …… Stuart N. Clarke   3
An ‘incredible goose’ and a ‘country flapper’: Virginia Woolf and the Easdales …… Stephen Barkway  5
Letters to Mrs G. E. Easdale …… Virginia Woolf 25
Transcribed and edited by Stephen Barkway  
Appendix A: Calendar of Letters to Mrs G. E. Easdale 31
Appendix B: Letters from Vita Sackville-West to Mrs G. E. Easdale 32
The Secret Life of Minor Characters in Mrs. Dalloway …… Irena Ksiezopolska 36
Book received 47
Haiku: Mrs. Dalloway …… Stuart N. Clarke  47
Unmasking the First Page of Mrs. Dalloway: A Detective Story …… Michael Coram 48
Competition Result: Potted Biography …… Stephen Barkway 53
Rediscovering Virginia Woolf …… Vanessa Curtis 54
Virginia Woolf Today …… Stephen Barkway 57
Thoby Stephen at Clifton College …… Vanessa Curtis 62
An Unpublished Letter from Leslie Stephen …… Vanessa Curtis 67
Forming a Leonard Woolf Society …… N. Sivasambu 70
Reviews
Virginia Woolf and the Victorians …… Tara Surry 71
The Prince, his Tutor and the Ripper …… Stuart N. Clarke 74
Who Was Sophie?  …… Stephen Barkway 77
Report of Society event
Ninth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, by Henrietta Garnett …… Stephen Barkway 81
For Members
Tenth Annual General Meeting 82
Society events 83
‘In the Footsteps of Virginia Woolf’ 83
Other events 84
Society Publications  Inside front wrapper
Instructions for contributors  Inside rear wrapper