“How did father…admiration for his mind” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 91.
Gordon and Fitzroy Squares Virginia lived with Vanessa, Thoby, and Adrian Stephen at 46 Gordon Square from 1904 to 1907; following Thoby’s death and Vanessa’s marriage to Clive Bell, Virginia and Adrian moved to 29 Fitzroy Square, where they lived until 1911.
the birthplace of “Then one day walking round Tavistock Square I made up, as I sometimes make up my books, To the Lighthouse; in a great, apparently involuntary, rush.” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 81.
“detestable” Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 25 April 1913, L, 2:24.
“exalted views” Stephen, Mausoleum Book, 77.
“God, I see the risk” Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 January 1912, Letters of Leonard Woolf, 169.
“the complete failure” Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 24 October 1938, L, 6:294.
“earth would open” Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 6 October 1909, L, 1:413.
“the man to whom” Virginia Woolf to Clive Bell, 4 September 1910, L, 1:434.
“As I did it” Lytton Strachey to Leonard Woolf, 19 February 1909, in Holroyd, Lytton Strachey, 201.
“I didn’t mean” Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, March 1912, L, 1:492.
“When I am…how splendid!” Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 1 May 1912, L, 1:496–97.
“One thing at a time” Leonard Woolf, Beginning Again, 70.
“go on, as before” Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 1 May 1912, L, 1:496.
PART ONE, CHAPTER 7
In Chapter 7, much of the account of Julia Jackson’s relationship with Herbert Duckworth is based upon Amy Licence’s own exploration of that time in Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles. The assertion that Leslie Stephen’s religious skepticism is what first attracted Julia to him is drawn from Peter Dally’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Manic Depression and the Life of Virginia Woolf.
“What my mother was” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 89.
“possibly rather dim” Lee, Virginia Woolf, 93.
“thorough gentleman” Stephen, Mausoleum Book, 35.
“aloof…for anyone to be” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 88–90.
“her sweet large blue eyes” Julia Margaret Cameron to Maria Jackson, 6 February 1878, in Lee, Virginia Woolf, 93.
“a superlative expression” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 90.
“solitary and independent” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 90.
“I was only 24” Stephen, Mausoleum Book, 40.
“looked very sad…dip into privately” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 82.
“I have been as unhappy” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 89.
“so tragic” D, 2:72, 25 October 1920.
“If there is any good” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 137.
PART ONE, CHAPTER 8
“I would see” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 137.
PART ONE, CHAPTER 9
“snatched” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 94.
“How did I first” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 82.
“We think back” A Room of One’s Own, 76.
“never, ever fucking” “It is the lack of copulation—either actual or implied—that worries me,” wrote Lytton Strachey of To the Lighthouse, a work he otherwise considered “a most extraordinary form of literature.” Lytton Strachey to Roger Senhouse, 11 May 1927, in Holroyd, Lytton Strachey, 569.
PART ONE, CHAPTER 10
“The mind is full” “The Narrow Bridge of Art,” in Granite and Rainbow, 12.
PART ONE, CHAPTER 14
In Chapter 14, I am obliged to John Batchelor and his book Virginia Woolf: The Major Novels for the suggestion that Woolf’s alphabet analogy is grounded in Leslie Stephen’s own efforts to complete the Dictionary of National Biography.
“human character” “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” in The Captain’s Death Bed, 91.
“narrow preoccupations” Murray and Smyth, “Manifesto,” in Clip-Kit, 1.
“Despite his obvious” Lee, Virginia Woolf, 73.
“you wont like it” Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 22 May 1912, L, 1:499.
“I have never suffered” D, 5:17, 16 March 1936.
“crept into the garden” Leonard Woolf, Downhill All the Way, 154.
“a week of intense” D, 5:24, 21 June 1936.
“easily the best” D, 3:117, 23 November 1926.
“rather thin” D, 3:106, 5 September 1926.
“sentimental” D, 3:106, 5 September 1926.
“it will be too like” D, 3:49, 7 December 1925.
“all my facts” Virginia Woolf to Angus Davidson, 25 December 1926, L, 3:310.
“After transferring” Sunwoo, “Clip-Kit, London,” in Colomina and Buckley, Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines, 98.
PART ONE, CHAPTER 15
“Any man’s death” Donne, “Meditation XVII,” in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, 103.
PART ONE, CHAPTER 16
“L. & I were too” D, 3:8–9, 8 April 1925.
“I enjoy almost everything” D, 3:62, 27 February 1926.
“wastes and deserts…a ship far out at sea” On Being Ill, 3–12.
PART ONE, CHAPTER 17
In Chapter 17, I’ve drawn the accounts of St Ives’s many shipwrecks from John Hobson Matthews’s A History of the Parishes of St Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor in the County of Cornwall and Marion Whybrow’s Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell: A Childhood in St Ives. It’s also Whybrow who first alerted me to the treachery of the Stones and the role that William Freeman, the Stephens’ boatman, would later play in the wreck of the John and Sarah Eliza Stych.
“On Saturday morning” Hyde Park Gate News (British Library), in Lee, Virginia Woolf, 33–34.
PART ONE, CHAPTER 18
“I was overcome” D, 5:115, 22 October 1937.
PART TWO
In Part Two, I am indebted to Hermione Lee and her biography for enriching my understanding of the Stephen siblings’ return to Cornwall in 1905.
“this impersonal thing” D, 3:36, 20 July 1925.
“withdrawing from…physical body is empty” Karnes, Gone from My Sight, 3–11.
“I could hardly bear” Stephen, Mausoleum Book, 62.
“Most fiction” “Sir Thomas Browne,” in E, 3:369.
“Who am I” D, 3:62–63, 27 February 1926.
“It was dusk…footsteps we turned away” PA, 11 August 1905, 282.
PART THREE, CHAPTER 1
In Chapter 1, the observation that the common thread between Woolf’s various accounts of losing her mother is her inability to feel belongs to Hermione Lee, who gathers these diary entries together in her biography’s chapter on Virginia’s adolescence.
“the greatest disaster” “Reminiscences,” in MB, 40.
“laughed” D, 2:301, 5 May 1921.
“I remember turning” D, 4:242, 12 September 1934.
“immeasurably distant…kissing cold iron” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 92.
PART THREE, CHAPTER 2
“astonishing intensity…the hall table” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 92.
“It’s nice that she” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 92.
“a luxurious dwelling” D, 3:264, 2 November 1929.
“muffled dulness…conventions of sorrow” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 93–95.
“Two blocks joined” “To the Lighthouse: Holograph Notes,” in Notes for Writing: Holograph Notebook, 11.
“Until I was…laid it to rest” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 80–81.
PART THREE, CHAPTER 4
“There it always was” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 84.
“shrouded, cautious” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 94.
PART THREE, CHAPTER 6
In Chapter 6, the revelation that To the Lighthouse is a ghost story belongs to Arnold Weinstein, who was the first reader to draw my attention to Mrs. Ramsay’s strange return.
“given a portrait” Vanessa Bell to Virginia Woolf, 11 May 1927, L, 3:572.
“What can one know” Mrs. Dalloway, 192.
“I sometimes feel” Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 1 May 1912, L, 1:496.
“I’m so orderly” Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 2 March 1926, L, 3:245.
“I’m in a terrible state” Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 25 May 1927, L, 3:383.
“How difficult it is” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 87.
“as I think” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 108.
“explains why people” E, 1:382, Appendix III.
PART THREE, CHAPTER 7
“I had a notion…fine delicate” D, 4:244, 19 September 1934.
“so bad” Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 27 May 1927, L, 3:385.
“so much more emotion” D, 3:187, 7 July 1928.
PART THREE, CHAPTER 8
“I never did enough” Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 28 February 1904, L, 1:130.
PART THREE, CHAPTER 10
“extraordinary look…joke this time” D, 2:299, 5 April 1924.
“We were quite…blinded us” “Reminiscences,” in MB, 45.
“to act parts…sentimental ideas” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 95.
“All these tears” “Reminiscences,” in MB, 45.
“unpardonable mischief” “Reminiscences,” in MB, 45.
“the brutality & wildness” D, 3:6, 8 April 1925.
PART THREE, CHAPTER 12
“To freshen my memory” D, 4:193, 17 December 1933.
“can still be more real…from the start” “A Sketch of the Past,” in MB, 67.
“wizard who was…of their substance?” PA, 11 August 1905, 282.
PART THREE, CHAPTER 13
The connection I draw in Chapter 13 between Monk’s House and the haunted house of Woolf’s story is my own fantasy; according to Leonard Woolf, “A Haunted House” was based on Asheham, the eighteenth-century home that the Woolfs leased prior to their move to Rodmell. “It sounded as if two people were walking from room to room,” Leonard recalled, “opening and shutting doors, sighing, whispering…”
“buried treasure…‘in the heart’ ” “A Haunted House,” in A Haunted House, 10–11.
“precipitated the loss” Lee, Virginia Woolf, 232.
“that one ought” Angelica Bell to David Garnett, 17 April 1939, in Lee, Virginia Woolf, 714.
“we shall be tying” D, 3:112, 28 September 1926.
“Half the beauty” D, 3:192, 14 August 1928.
“be our address for ever” Virginia Woolf to Katherine Arnold-Forster, 12 August 1919, L, 2:382.
NOTES
“laboriously correcting” Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 21 February 1927, L, 3:333.
“It sounded as if” Leonard Woolf, Beginning Again, 57.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays. London: Hogarth Press, 1950.
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. 5 vols. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1977–84.
The Essays of Virginia Woolf. 6 vols. Edited by Andrew McNeillie. London: Hogarth Press, 1986.
Granite and Rainbow. Edited by Leonard Woolf. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1958.
A Haunted House and Other Stories. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973.
The Letters of Virginia Woolf. 6 vols. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975–80.
Moments of Being. Edited by Jeanne Schulkind. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
Mrs. Dalloway. San Diego: Harcourt, Inc., 1925.
Notes for Writing: Holograph Notebook. Virginia Woolf Collection of Papers. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, the New York Public Library.
On Being Ill. Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 2002.
A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Mitchell A. Leaska. London: Hogarth Press, 1990.
A Room of One’s Own. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1929.
The Second Common Reader. Edited by Andrew McNeillie. San Diego: Harcourt, Inc., 1986.
To the Lighthouse. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1981.
The Waves. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1931.
OTHER WORKS CONSULTED
Alexander, Peter F. Leonard and Virginia Woolf: A Literary Partnership. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Translated by Willard R. Trask. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1953.
Batchelor, John. Virginia Woolf: The Major Novels. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. 2 vols. London: Hogarth Press, 1972.
Bell, Vanessa. Sketches in Pen and Ink: A Bloomsbury Memoir. Edited by Lia Giachero. London: Pimlico, 1998.
Briggs, Julia. Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life. London: Penguin Books, 2005.
Dally, Peter. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Manic Depression and the Life of Virginia Woolf. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Donne, John. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Death’s Duel. New York: Vintage Spiritual Classics, 1999.
Forrester, Viviane. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait. Translated by Jody Gladding. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
Forster, E. M. “Virginia Woolf.” In Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Claire Sprague. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971.
Guiguet, Jean. Virginia Woolf and Her Works. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962.
Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: The New Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
Hussey, Mark. The Singing of the Real World: The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf’s Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1986.
Hussey, Mark, and Peter Shillingsburg. “The Composition, Revision, Printing and Publication of To the Lighthouse.” Woolf Online. Edited by Pamela L. Caughie, Nick Hayward, Mark Hussey, Peter Shillingsburg, and George K. Thiruvathukal. Accessed on April 22, 2018. http://www.woolfonline.com/?node=content/contextual/transcriptions&project=1&parent=45&taxa=47&content=6955&pos=3.
Karnes, Barbara. Gone from My Sight: The Dying Experience. Depoe Bay, OR: Barbara Karnes Books, 2005.
Laing, Olivia. To the River. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2012.
Lee, Hermione. “Notes.” In To the Lighthouse. Edited by Stella McNichol. London: Penguin Books, 1992.
———. The Novels of Virginia Woolf. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1977.
———. Virginia Woolf. London: Vintage, 1997.
Licence, Amy. Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles: The Lives and Loves of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. Stroud, UK: Amberley Publishing, 2016.
Matthews, John Hobson. A History of the Parishes of Saint Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor in the County of Cornwall. London: Elliot Stock, 1892.
Murray, Peter, and Geoffrey Smyth. “Manifesto.” In Clip-Kit: Studies in Environmental Design. Edited by Peter Murray and Geoffrey Smyth. London: Architectural Association, 1966.
Reid, Panthea. Art and Affection: A Life of Vir
ginia Woolf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Stephen, Leslie. Sir Leslie Stephen’s Mausoleum Book. Edited by Alan Bell. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.
Sunwoo, Irene. “Clip-Kit, London.” In Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines, 196X–197X. Edited by Beatriz Colomina and Craig Buckley. Barcelona: Actar, 2010.
Weinstein, Arnold. Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison. New York: Random House, 2007.
Whybrow, Marion. Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell: A Childhood in St Ives. Wellington, UK: Halstar, 2014.
Wood, James. The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief. New York: Random House, 1999.
Woolf, Leonard. Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911–1918. London: Hogarth Press, 1964.
———. Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919–1939. London: Hogarth Press, 1967.
———. Letters of Leonard Woolf. Edited by Frederic Spotts. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990.
Zwerdling, Alex. Virginia Woolf and the Real World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
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