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Virginia Woolf’s uncollected letters now out in print

Posted in books, letters, tagged , , , , on Monday 24 March 2025| 2 Comments »

The good news is that The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf (2025) is now out in print. The bad news is the cost: $245. But the other good news is that Edinburgh University Press is offering a “launch discount” code that saves you 30 percent off the published price. Use code NEW30 at checkout.

Amazon U.S. is also offering the volume at a price of $246.39, but no discount is available.

Edited by Stephen Barkway and the late Stuart N. Clarke, the volume includes more than 1,400 uncollected and newly discovered letters from Virginia Woolf, including several substantial series of letters with previously unrecorded correspondents.

Important letters to contemporary writers, such as Stella Benson, Rebecca West, Lyn Lloyd Irvine and Berta Ruck, have been unearthed from archives, as well as fifty letters to T. S. Eliot. This book also features substantial collections of letters to Lady Colefax, Winifred Holtby, Mary Hutchinson, Christabel McLaren (Lady Aberconway) and Raymond Mortimer, as well as previously unrecorded correspondents, according to the publisher.

Background on the new letters and the editors

For 25 years, Clarke and Barkway searched for previously unpublished letters from Virginia Woolf and included them in the pages of the Virginia Woolf Bulletin, which is issued free to members of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.

During their search, the pair of editors also put out a call to members and beyond for any letters from Woolf  that did not make it into the six-volume collection of her letters published by Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich between 1975-80.

Clarke is a co-founder of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and was editor of the Virginia Woolf Bulletin from 1999 to 2022. As well as contributing almost 300 items to the Bulletin, he edited Volume five and Volume six of The Essays of Virginia Woolf (2009 and 2011) and transcribed Orlando: The Original Holograph Draft (1993). Barkway is a co-founder of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and was its Chair from 1998 to 2018.

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In memoriam to VWSGB founder Stuart N. Clarke

Posted in in memoriam, Virginia Woolf, tagged , on Saturday 15 February 2025| 1 Comment »

The irreplaceable Stuart N. Clarke, who co-founded the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain in 1998 and served as editor of the Virginia Woolf Bulletin for 23 years, died peacefully on Feb. 10, 2025.

Stuart was known for his encyclopedic  knowledge of Virginia Woolf, often stepping up to answer esoteric questions posed to the VW Listserv.

“His vigorous recall of facts and quotations not only astounded those around him but became a reliable resource for the Society and its members,” according to the email from the society’s executive committee that announced his passing. “The Society would not have been what it has grown to become without the seemingly endless, encyclopaedic knowledge that Stuart had of Virginia Woolf’s life and work.”

The Centre for Modernist Cultures at the University of Birmingham made him an Honorary Fellow in 2022 “in recognition of his exceptional contribution to the study of Virginia Woolf.”

His work as a distinguished textual editor includes Volumes 5 and 6 of The Essays of Virginia Woolf (Hogarth Press, 2009 and 2011), A Room of One’s Own with David Bradshaw (Shakespeare Head Press, 2015), and Jacob’s Room for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Among his earlier publications are Orlando: The Original Holograph Draft (1993), and Translations from the Russian (2006), a volume devoted to the collaborative translations undertaken by Virginia Woolf and S.S. Koteliansky.

To honor Stuart’s dedication, the VWSGB will produce a supplement with the next issue of the Bulletin, containing pieces written by his fellow Woolfians in appreciation of his huge contribution to Woolf studies over the years.

Tributes should reach the society at bulletinvwsgb@gmail.com by March 1. You can also post your memories about Stuart in the Comments section below.

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Stuart N. Clarke honored for his Woolf work

Posted in awards, Virginia Woolf, tagged , on Saturday 27 August 2022| 3 Comments »

Thanks to the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain for this news about co-founder and member Stuart N. Clarke.

Co-founder of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, Stuart N. Clarke has been made an Honorary Fellow by the Centre for Modernist Cultures at the University of Birmingham `in recognition of his exceptional contribution to the study of Virginia Woolf.’

Work on Woolf

His work on Woolf is considerable. Well before the founding of the VWSGB, Stuart self-published Orlando: The Holograph Draft (1993). He assisted B. J. Kirkpatrick to compile the fourth edition of A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf (1997), an arduous and multifaceted task.

In 1999, he started the Virginia Woolf Bulletin for the VWSGB and was its chief editor for the first 70 issues, supplying much of the content, including full-length papers featuring original research and many of the fascinating ‘Notes and Queries’ articles.

Also for the organization, Stuart produced an edition of Virginia Woolf and S. S. Koteliansky’s Translations from the Russian, which had not been reprinted since the Hogarth Press originals of 1922 and 1923.

Apart from his work for the Society, Stuart has edited and annotated volumes five and six of Woolf’s Essays (Hogarth Press, 2009 and 2011), A Room of One’s Own with David Bradshaw (Shakespeare Head Press, 2015), and Jacob’s Room for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Clarke’s assiduous tracing of references has been especially significant in establishing the extent and complex character of Woolf’s political engagement. – Center for Modernist Studies, University of Birmingham

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A first-hand impression of “The Mark on the Wall”

Posted in Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , , on Sunday 17 February 2019| 5 Comments »

Common reader Nell Toemen had a real “Woolf-week” in January by first traveling to Oslo, Norway, to visit the opening of Ane Thon Knutsen’s PhD. Exhibition, “The Mark on the Wall, and then traveling to London for Virginia Woolf’s Birthday Lecture by Stuart Clarke.

She shared her impression of Ane’s exhibit with Blogging Woolf. We are happy to include it as follows:

Nell’s first-hand impression of Ane’s exhibit

First there was some of her ‘Woolf-work’ in the Oslo National Academy of the Arts reflecting process, research, previous work and documentation). That same evening there was the official opening of the major installation of “The Mark on the Wall” in Kunstnernes Hus, an art institution in the centre of Oslo.

It was a surprise, this major installation, the result of Ane’s enormous work of typesetting and printing during last autumn as one could see on her website. It was really impressive: entering the room and wherever you looked words, words, punctuation marks and words.

Woolf’s first publication in Hogarth Press, the complete short story “The Mark on the Wall” handprinted on I don’t know how many papers, white and off-white, neatly arranged so as to fill all the walls. If you would walk the room in eleven rounds you would be able to read the whole story. Reading it this way is an absolutely different experience than reading the story in a book.

It was worth the journey.

Nell’s photos

Below are the photos Nell sent Blogging Woolf to help readers get a better idea of the installation’s impact.

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New work from Woolf will be out this summer

Posted in Bloomsbury, books, Charleston Farmhouse, Virginia Woolf, Woolf Letters, tagged , , , , on Monday 11 February 2013| 4 Comments »

New work from Virginia Woolf will be out this summer. The work appeared in The Charleston Bulletin, a family newspaper founded by her nephews, Quentin and Julian Bell, in the summer of 1923.

The vignettes, written or dictated by Woolf between 1923 and 1927 and published in The Charleston Bulletin’s Supplements, describe incidents and individuals of Woolf’s family and household, including servants and members of the Bloomsbury Group. Quentin Bell provided the illustrations.

An article in The Guardian says Woolf’s writing in these supplements shows her “affectionate, mischievous side.”

Helen Melody, curator of modern literary manuscripts at the British Library, says the work is likely the last unpublished work of Woolf.

Yet Stuart N. Clarke, editor of The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol 5. and a member of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, maintains that each issue of the Virginia Woolf Bulletin includes at least one previously unpublished letter by Woolf. They include letters to Lady Aberconway, Mrs Easdale and Winifred Holtby.  Clarke says the Bulletin will soon include a number of letters written by Woolf to Lady Colefax.

The British Library, which acquired the works in 2003, will publish The Charleston Bulletin Supplements for the first time this June.

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