“very humble and unromantic”: VW Letters 2, 390.
“but why do I let myself”: VW Diary 1, 291.
“old chimney piece”: Ibid., 286.
“distinctly bad” kitchen: Ibid.
“profound pleasure … an infinity … unexpected flowers … well kept rows … the garden gate admits … He was pleased”: Ibid.
“very good” country … “mystic mounds & tombs”: LW Letters, 206.
“Still I advised the leap”: VW Diary 2, 276.
“ironical … so savagely anti-clerical”: LW Letters, 552n2.
“a born writer and a born gardener”: Ibid., 532n2.
“As soon as a Jew”: Davenport-Hines, Proust at the Majestic, 70.
“Monk’s House” … a snare … “quite fraudulent”: LW Letters, 569.
“loving children … exasperated”: Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, ed. Kate Flint (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.), 5.
“We walked to Hogarth”: VW Diary 1, 19.
“rather shabby, but very easy surroundings”: Quentin Bell, Bloomsbury (London: Futura, 1974 [1968]), 73.
“most sociable summer we’ve ever had”: VW Diary 2, 202.
“What is the sense of coming”: VW Letters 2, 549.
“Sept. is so magnificent here”: LW Letters, 222.
“have to go on their holidays”: Ibid.
“the summer dying out of the year”: Ibid., 233.
“Nothing could exceed the monotony”: CB to MH, August 7, 1921, Mary Hutchinson Collection, HRC, Box 6, File 2.
“He thinks it my best work”: VW Diary 2, 186.
They had dinner with Vanessa: Leonard Woolf’s appointment diary for Thursday, July 27,1922, Leonard Woolf Papers, University of Sussex, SxMs-13/2/R/A/15.
“On the whole”: VW Diary 2, 187.
“Mrs Nicolson thinks me”: Ibid.
farewell dinner at Commercio: Ibid.
“literary and fashionable intelligence … dictating to his typist … very neat”: CB to MH, August 3 or 4, 1922, Mary Hutchinson Collection, HRC, Box 6, File 3.
“sardonic, guarded, precise”: VW Diary 2, 187.
“organized with uncommon skill”: CB to MH, August 3 or 4, 1922, Mary Hutchinson Collection, HRC, Box 6, File 3.
“We travel with a selection”: Virginia Woolf, A Change of Perspective: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, vol. 3, 1923–1928 (London: The Hogarth Press, 1977), 58. Future references will be to VW Letters 3.
“a tortoise”: Ibid.
“with considerable mastery … I make him pay”: Ibid.
“rain, wind, & dark London looking skies”: VW Diary 2, 204.
“almost constant stream … one of the main tributaries”: Bell, Bloomsbury Recalled, 121.
“promised & then withheld”: VW Diary 2, 204.
“I can’t write while I’m being read”: VW Diary 3, 200.
“At last, I like reading my own writing”: VW Diary 2, 205.
“Visitors leave one in tatters”: Ibid., 198.
for the second part of a Sussex visit: CB to MH, August 25, 1922, Mary Hutchinson Collection, HRC, Box 6, File 3.
“Woolf & Virginia … Chinese puzzle”: CB to MH, August 28, 1922, Mary Hutchinson Collection, HRC, Box 6, File 3.
“neither of us wishes for visitors”: VW Diary 2, 192.
first in the November issue of the Dial and then afterward as a book, by Liveright: John Quinn to TSE, September 7, 1922, John Quinn papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Letterbook vol. 26, 220–31. In the end, the Dial paid Eliot $130 for the poem, $20 less than Thayer had originally offered in the winter (Sutton, Pound, Thayer, Watson, and the Dial, 253).
“exceedingly interesting and add much”: Sutton, Pound, Thayer, Watson, and the Dial, 254.
“it’s my loss, I suppose”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 736.
“It was a close shave”: John Quinn to TSE, September 7, 1922, John Quinn papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Letterbook vol. 26, 225.
“good deal of chinning”: Ibid., 221.
“bibliographical value”: Sutton, Pound, Thayer, Watson, and the Dial, 253.
“quite overwhelmed by your letter”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 748.
“You know, Forster”: EMF Letters 1, 268.
“snuggled in”: VW Diary 2, 204.
“Forster would come out better alone”: VW Diary 1, 294–95.
“I don’t believe in suiting”: Forster, Howards End, 132–33.
“often melancholy and low-temperature”: E. M. Forster: Interviews and Recollections, ed. J. H. Stape (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 230.
“He never effused … didn’t like you”: Ibid., 228.
“sparkle … suppressed sneeze … a little sneeze of joy”: Ibid., 59.
“is all breadth & bone”: VW Diary 2, 203.
“something too simple about him”: Ibid., 204.
“scarcely touch … very little I should think”: Ibid.
“probably being better done”: Ibid., 69.
“these undelivered geniuses … or silence their groans”: VW Letters 2, 533.
“not a third … amused, stimulated, charmed”: VW Diary 2, 188–89.
“An illiterate, underbred book”: Ibid.
confessed her boredom with A Portrait: VW Letters 2, 167.
Clive had met Joyce for the first time: Bell’s encounter is described in a May 7, 1921, letter to MH, Mary Hutchinson Collection, HRC, Box 6, File 2. Clive also saw Joyce at a May 1922 party at the Majestic given by Sydney and Violet Schiff. Also invited were Proust and Stravinsky, among others. Joyce and Proust’s meeting was brief and not illuminating. See Davenport-Hines, Proust at the Majestic, 38–46.
“Eliot says that Joyce’s novel”: VW Letters 2, 485.
“who grinned at me”: CB to MH, October 26, 1921, Mary Hutchinson Collection, HRC, Box 6, File 3.
“utterly contemptuous … ‘Did Mary really admire it?’ … feeble, wordy, uneducated stuff … Virginia down with the monthlies”: CB to MH, August 18, 1922, Mary Hutchinson Collection, HRC, Box 6, File 3.
“When one can have the cooked flesh, why have the raw?”: VW Diary 2, 193.
“I may revise this … For my own part”: Ibid., 189.
“the last immortal chapter”: Ibid., 197.
“reads thin & pointless … something rich, & deep”: Ibid., 199.
“Genius it has I think … not only in the obvious sense … doing stunts … respects writing too much … I’m reminded of some callow”: Ibid.
“scamped the virtue”: Ibid., 200.
“myriads of tiny bullets”: Ibid.
“And Tom, great Tom”: Ibid., 189.
“over stimulated … my back up on purpose”: Ibid., 200.
It was by Gilbert Seldes: Ibid. This was published in the Nation.
“much more impressive … some lasting truth … bowled over”: Ibid.
If she ever did so: Woolf did not read Ulysses again, and in her diary she wrote, “Thank God, I need not write about it” (VW Diary 2, 196). She had praised Joyce artfully in her article “Modern Novels,” published in the Times Literary Supplement of April 10, 1919, and noted, “Any one who has read The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or what promises to be a far more interesting work, Ulysses, now appearing in the Little Review, will have hazarded some theory … as to Mr Joyce’s intention” (VW Essays 3, 34). When she republished the article in The Common Reader in 1925, she left this line unchanged, though the complete Ulysses had been published three years before. In her July 1924 Criterion article, “Character in Fiction,” Woolf wrote briefly of Ulysses, “Mr Joyce’s indecency in Ulysses seems to me the conscious and calculated indecency of a desperate man who feels that in order to breathe he must break the windows. At moments, when the window is broken, he is magnificent. But what a waste of energy!” (VW Essays 3, 434).
“The book would be a landmark” … Tom said that there was no “g
reat conception”: VW Diary 2, 202–3.
Thackeray’s Pendennis: Ibid., 203.
“We know so little … how far we now accept”: Woolf’s notes on Joyce are in Virginia Woolf, “Modern Novels (Joyce),” Berg Collection, New York Public Library, m.b. (Woolf), holograph notebook.
“a very queer convention”: Ibid.
“What is life? Thats the question”: Ibid.
“could have screwed Jacob up tighter”: VW Diary 2, 210.
Mohammed’s request: EMF Letters 1, 272.
to lend him two books: Furbank, E. M. Forster, 2:165–66.
“‘James Joyce is a very bad writer’”: V. S. Pritchett, “Three Cheers for E. M. Forster,” New Statesman, June 12, 1970, 846, reprinted in E. M. Forster: Interviews and Recollections, 224.
Virginia was done with Joyce: VW Letters 2, 566.
“like a martyr to a stake”: Ibid.
“far otherwise”: Ibid.
“great adventure”: Ibid., 565.
“devoting myself”: Ibid., 533.
“I suppose … in a state of amazement”: Ibid., 566.
“How, at last … Well—what remains”: Ibid., 565–66.
“Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street has branched into a book”: VW Diary 2, 207.
15: David and Frieda Arrive in Taos
“Can you send me also”: DLH Letters 4, 306.
“a big boarding-house staggering over the sea”: Ibid., 284.
“shall have blewed [sic]”: Ibid., 260.
whist … practicing the saxophone: Ibid., 284.
“dead, dull, modern, French and Chinese”: Ibid., 286.
“a Crowd of cinema people”: Ibid., 287.
“like any sort”: Ibid.
“hating one another”: Ibid., 303.
“a fine town but a bit dazing”: Ibid., 289.
“still landsick”: Ibid.
“terrible … iron all the while … breaks my head”: Ibid., 290.
“Everybody is very nice”: Ibid., 289.
ARRIVED PENNILESS TELEGRAPH DRAFT: Ibid., 287.
“the time-table, that magic carpet of today”: Lawrence, The Lost Girl, 285.
“I know that Sumner is watching … held subject to my order”: John Quinn to Sylvia Beach, February 4, 1922, John Quinn papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Letterbook vol. 25, 256.
“Couldn’t you find Ulysses?”: DHL Letters 4, 320.
“I shall be able to read this famous Ulysses”: Ibid., 275.
“I have nearly finished … Even the Ulysseans”: Ibid.
“much more important … whole of Mr Joyce”: John Middleton Murry,Reminiscences of D. H. Lawrence (New York: Henry Holt, 1933), 228, reprinted from the Nation and Athenaeum, August 13, 1922.
“came off occasionally … had great moments”: VW Diary 2, 203.
“They wanted to see me”: Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos, 27.
“I build quite a lot on Taos”: Ibid., 35.
“Mabel-town”: Maddox, D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage, 345.
“sub-arty”: DHL Letters 4, 111.
“terrible will to power—woman power”: Ibid., 351.
“our work together”: Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos, 66.
“a repulsive sight … turned it into a brothel … that’s how powerful he was”: Ibid.
“surrounded by a shoal … some of them less tender”: T. S. Eliot wrote the introduction to Father William Tiverton, D. H. Lawrence and Human Existence (London: Rockcliff, 1951), vii.
a voluminous white cashmere burnous: Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos, 66.
“so-called flowing lines” … “longing to be like a willow”: Ibid., 80.
“very much wants me to write”: DHL Letters 4, 310.
“Of course it was for this”: Composite 2, 180.
“He said he wanted to write”: Ibid.
“You have done her … She has mothered your books”: Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos, 71.
“She won’t let any other woman”: Ibid., 72.
Mabel also wanted Lawrence to join her crusade: DHL Letters 4, 331–32.
“tall and full-fleshed”: Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos, 44.
“whole expression … extreme fragility”: Ibid., 48. Luhan has inserted a long description of Lawrence written by a mutual friend that she seems to accept as representative of her own thoughts about him.
“the womb in me”: Ibid., 45.
Mabel Sterne’s “ground” … “even by kindness”: DHL Letters 4, 330.
“a big fellow—nice”: Ibid., 311–12.
“Mabel Sterne has an Indian lover … She is pretty rich”: Ibid., 313.
$1,000 from Hearst for the rights to “The Captain’s Doll”: Ibid., 302 and 389.
“during the hard days”: DHL Letters 4, 305.
“M. Sterne novel of here”: Ibid., 319.
“You’ve got to remember”: Ibid., 318.
“your own indubitable voice”: Ibid.
“sweeping noisily, and singing with a loud defiance”: Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos, 72.
“loneliness that was like a terrible hunger … He couldn’t admit any rivals”: Ibid., 104.
“I never even saw the chapter”: Ibid., 85.
“It’s very clever at the beginning”: DHL Letters 4, 319.
“exceedingly good and very discussable”: Ibid., 301n1.
The character based on Mabel: In D. H. Lawrence, St. Mawr and Other Stories, ed. Brian Finney (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 202. The untitled fragment was given the title “The Wilful Woman” by Keith Sagar when he published it for the first time in the 1971 Penguin edition of The Princess, and Other Stories (see Finney introduction, xxi).
“avoided the personal note in life”: Forster, Howards End, 79.
“hates the white world”: DHL Letters 4, 351.
“put it in black and white … I don’t believe”: Ibid., 337.
“bullying and Sadish”: Ibid.
“antagonistic to the living relation of man and wife”: Ibid.
“I believe that, at its best”: Ibid.
“Of course there is no breach”: Ibid., 345.
“Mabel Sterne’s territory”: Ibid., 343.
“on free territory once more”: Ibid., 348.
In the mountains: Ibid., 360.
He and Frieda went riding: Ibid., 353.
beauty of the clouds … “so heavy and empty”: Merrild, A Poet and Two Painters, 105.
“full and surcharged with insult”: Ibid., 65.
“God in Heaven, no”: Ibid.
“beastly humans”: Ibid., 239.
“no inside to life: all outside”: DHL Letters 4, 365.
“In my country … we’re all Kings and Queens”: Ibid.
It arrived in Taos on November 6: Ibid., 335.
“all very nice, but a terrible wrapper on Women in Love”: Ibid., 335n2.
“F. Wubbenhorst”: Ibid., 340.
“I do not want you to pay”: Ibid., 345.
“I am sorry, but I am one … I am glad I have seen”: Ibid., 340.
“would look as much askance … We make a choice”: Ibid.
“Do you really want to publish”: Ibid., 355.
“great thing, a unique thing … It is no proof that a man … It is absurd for people”: John Quinn to Harriet Weaver, October 28, 1922, John Quinn papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Letterbook vol. 26, 305–9.
“Why do they read me?”: DHL Letters 4, 363.
Lawrence sent copies of the books … as Christmas presents: Ibid., 355 and 362.
“You will find it a different”: Frieda Lawrence to Adele Selzer, 12-15-22 [postmark], Frieda Lawrence Collection, HRC, Box 5, Folder 6.
16: “Mrs Dalloway Has Branched into a Book”
“my first testimony … a little uppish”: VW Diary 2, 205.
“two books running side by side”: Ibid.
“reading with a purpose”: Ibid.
“Thoughts upon beginning a book”: Woolf’s
sets of notes from autumn 1922, dated October 6 and 16, and November 9 and November 19, are reprinted in Virginia Woolf, “The Hours”: The British Museum Manuscript of Mrs. Dalloway, ed. Helen M. Wussow (New York: Pace University Press, 1996), 411–19.
“make some impression … cannot be wholly frigid fireworks”: VW Diary 2, 205.
“Book of scraps of J’s R.”: Woolf, “The Hours,” 410.
“I must get on with my reading”: VW Diary 2, 208.
“I want to think out Mrs Dalloway”: Ibid., 209.
“ushers in a host of others”: Ibid., 189.
“tunnelling” technique: Ibid., 272.
“the violent explosion”: Woolf, The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 317.
Jacob’s Room was published … in an edition of one thousand copies: VW Diary 2, 209 and 209n12.
“long, a little tepid”; “Pall Mall [Gazette] passes me over” … “an elderly sensualist”: Ibid.
“the letter I’ve liked best of all”: Ibid.
“too highly for it to give me”: Ibid., 207.
“a great writer or a nincompoop”: Ibid., 209.
“splash … most whole hearted”: Ibid., 210.
“It’s odd how little I mind”: Ibid.
“At last, I like reading … At forty I am beginning”: VW Diary 2, 205–6.
“go on unconcernedly whatever people say”: Ibid.
a second edition of another thousand: Ibid., 209.
“it is superb”: Ibid., 209. Garnett himself published his first novel, Lady into Fox, in 1922. It was a popular success and won both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, which D. H. Lawrence had won two years before for The Lost Girl.
“try to get on a step further”: VW Letters 2, 571.
“Septimus Smith?”: VW Diary 2, 207.
But Bunny made another comparison in his letter: David Garnett to VW, October 19, 1922, Monk’s House Papers, University of Sussex, SxMs-18/1/D/61/1.
“I expect you’re rather hard … I only have the sound of it”: VW Letters 2, 572.
“foresee this book better … get the utmost”: VW Diary 2, 209.
“he said it is like a series of vignettes”: VB to CB, October 16, 1922, The Charleston Papers, KCAC, CHA/1/59/1/8.
“make my path as I went”: VW Diary 2, 210.
“the 10th of June, or whatever I call it”: Ibid., 211.
Septimus Smith was mentioned: Woolf, The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 318–19. The details of Woolf’s typescript are on p. 316.
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