Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2018
Abstract
About the Book
When Virginia Woolf ended her thirty-year association with Bruce Richmond and the Times Literary Supplement, she commented in her diary that "I learnt a lot of my craft writing for him: how to compress; how to enliven; and also was made to read with a pen and notebook, seriously." Virginia Woolf's Reading Notebooks describes, dates, and identifies the sources of sixty-seven volumes of these notes. An indispensable tool for those who plan to consult the notebooks themselves, the book also illuminates, brilliantly, both the depth and breadth of Woolf's life-long love of reading and her passionate engagement with literary and social history. Most of the entries were made while reading for reviews, for critical and biographical essays, for her own information about a topic, or for background for a book. Taken as a whole, the thousands of entries jumbled together in the notebooks capture the responses of the woman and artist to the world around her, and trace the growth of the dreamy young reader into a major figure in the intellectual history of the twentieth century. The notebooks included in this work are housed in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, New York Public Library; University of Sussex Special Collections, The Keep, Brighton; and the Beinecke Library, Yale University.
About the Author
Brenda R. Silver is Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor Emerita at Dartmouth College, and Adjunct Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin. Her publications include Virginia Woolf Icon (1999) and Rape and Representation (1991), edited with Lynn A. Higgins, as well as "Anon" and "The Reader": Virginia Woolf's Last Essays, A Textual Edition, with Introduction and Commentary (1979/80).
About the Electronic Publication
This electronic publication of Virginia Woolf's Reading Notebooks was made possible with the permission of the author. The University Press of New England created Kindle, EPUB and PDF files.
Rights Information
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License © Princeton University Press
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1349/ddlp.3522
Original Citation
Print version: Virginia Woolf's Reading Notebooks. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780691061795. PR6045.O72 Z8764 1983.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Silver, Brenda R., "Virginia Woolf's Reading Notebooks" (2018). Dartmouth Scholarship. 4334.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/4334