Virginia Woolf: The Critical Heritage

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• General Editor's Preface v
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xv
• Introduction 1
• Note on the Text 48
• The Voyage Out 49
• 1 - Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement 49
• 2 - Unsigned Review, Observer 50
• 3 - Unsigned Review, Morning Post 51
• 4 - E. M. Forster, Review, Daily News and Leader 52
• 5 - Gerald Gould, Review, New Statesman 55
• 6 - A. N. M., Review, Manchester Guardian 57
• 7 - Unsigned Review, Athenaeum 59
• 8 - Unsigned Review, Nation 60
• 9 - W. H. Hudson, a Sharp Criticism 61
• 10 - From an Unsigned Review, Spectator 62
• 11 - Lytton Strachey on the Unvictorian Aspect of the Voyage Out 64
• 12 - Virginia Woolf, Reply to Strachey 65
• 'Kew Gardens' 66
• 13 - Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement 66
• 14 - E. M. Forster, 'Visions', Daily News 68
• 15 - Roger Fry, an 'Unintentional Parody' 70
• Night and Day 72
• 16 - Ford Madox Hueffer, 'Novel' and 'Romance', Piccadilly Review 72
• 17 - Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement 76
• 18 - Katherine Mansfield, Review, Athenaeum 79
• 19 - W. L. George, from 'A Painter's Literature', English Review 82
• 20 - R. M. Underbill, Review, Bookman (New York) 85
• Monday or Tuesday 87
• 21 - Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement 87
• 22 - 'Affable Hawk', Review, New Statesman 89
• 23 - Unsigned Review, Dial (New York) 92
• Jacob's Room 93
• 24 - Lytton Strachey on the Romantic Element in Jacob's Room 93
• 25 - Virginia Woolf, Reply to Lytton Strachey 94
• 26 - Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement 95
• 27 - Lewis Bettany, Review, Daily News 98
• 28 - Unsigned Review, Pall Mall Gazette 99
• 29 - Rebecca West, Review, New Statesman 100
• 30 - W. L. Courtney, Review, Daily Telegraph 103
• 31 - Gerald Gould, Review, Saturday Review 106
• 32 - Unsigned Review, 'Dissolving Views', Yorkshire Post 107
• 33 - Unsigned Review, New Age 108
• 34 - Middleton Murry on the Impasse of Prose Fiction 109
• 35 - Maxwell Bodenheim, 'Underneath the Paint in Jacob's Room', Nation (New York) 110
• 36 - Arnold Bennett, 'Is the Novel Decaying?', Cassell's Weekly 112
• 'Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown' 115
• 37 - Virginia Woolf, 'Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown' (First Version), Nation and Athenaeum 115
• 38 - J. D. Beresford, 'the Successors of Charles Dickens', Nation and Athenaeum 120
• 39 - Logan Pearsall Smith, 'First Catch Your Hare', Nation and Athenaeum 124
• 'Character in Fiction' 130
• 40 - 'simon Pure', from a Review, Bookman (New York) 130
• 'Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown' 133
• 41 - Edwin Muir, from a Review, Nation and Athenaeum 133
• 42 - 'Feiron Morris', Review, Criterion January 1925, 326-9 134
• 43 - Clive Bell on Virginia Woolf's Painterly Vision, Dial 138
• The Common Reader (First Series) 148
• 44 - From an Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement 148
• 45 - H. I'A. Fausset, Initialled Review, 'the Art of Virginia Woolf', Manchester Guardian 151
• 46 - Edgell Rickword, Initialled Review, Calendar 153
• 47 - H. P. Collins, from a Review, Criterion 156
• Mrs Dalloway 158
• 48 - Richard Hughes, 'A Day in London Life', Saturday Review of Literature (New York) 158
• 49 - Unsigned Review, 'A Novelist's Experiment', Times Literary Supplement 160
• 50 - Gerald Bullett, from a Review, Saturday Review 163
• 51 - P. C. Kennedy, from a Review, New Statesman 165
• 52 - Lytton Strachey, 'You Have Not Yet Mastered Your Method' 168
• 53 - J. F. Holms, Review, Calendar of Modern Letters 169
• 54 - E. M. Forster, a Survey of Virginia Woolf's Work 171
• 55 - Edwin Muir, Virginia Woolf, Nation and Athenaeum 178
• 56 - Dudley Carew on Virginia Woolf's Characterisation, London Mercury 185
• 57 - E. W. Hawkins, 'the Stream of Consciousness Novel', Atlantic Monthly 187
• 58 - Arnold Bennett, from 'Another Criticism of the New School', Evening Standard 189
• 59 - T. S. Eliot, 'Places' Virginia Woolf for French Readers 191
• To the Lighthouse 193
• 60 - From an Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement 193
• 61 - Louis Kronenberger, from a Review, New York Times 195
• 62 - Rachel A. Taylor, Review, Spectator 198
• 63 - Arnold Bennett, Review, Evening Standard 200
• 64 - Orlo Williams, Review, Monthly Criterion 201
• 65 - Conrad Aiken, 'the Novel as Work of Art', Dial (Chicago) 205
• 66 - Edwin Muir, Review, Nation and Athenaeum 209
• 67 - E. M. Forster on Virginia Woolf and Sterne 210
• 68 - J.-E. Blanche, from 'An Interview with Virginia Woolf, Les Nouvelles Littéraires 212
• 69 - Jean-Jacques Mayoux, from a Review, Revue Anglo-Americaine (Paris) 214
• Orlando 222
• 70 - Desmond Maccarthy, Review, Sunday Times 222
• 71 - J. C. Squire, 'Prose-De-Société', Observer 227
• 72 - Cleveland B. Chase, from a Review, New York Times 230
• 73 - Arnold Bennett on Virginia Woolf 232
• 74 - Conrad Aiken, Review, Dial (Chicago) 234
• 75 - Helen Macafee, Initialled Review, Yale Review 237
• 76 - Raymond Mortimer, from 'Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey', Bookman (New York) 238
• 77 - Storm Jameson, from 'the Georgian Novel and Mr Robinson', Bookman (New York) 244
• 78 - From the Voyage Out to Orlando: Two French Surveys 246
• A Room of One's Own 255
• 79 - From an Unsigned Review, 'Women and Books', Times Literary Supplement 255
• 80 - V. Sackville-West, from a Review, Listener 257
• 81 - Arnold Bennett, from 'Queen of the High-Brows', Evening Standard 258
• 82 - M. E. Kelsey, from 'Virginia Woolf and the She-Condition', Sewanee Review 260
• The Waves 263
• 83 - Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement 263
• 84 - Harold Nicolson, Review, Action 266
• 85 - Frank Swinnerton, Review, Evening News 267
• 86 - Gerald Bullett, Review, New Statesman and Nation 268
• 87 - G. Lowes Dickinson, 'Your Book is a Poem', from a Letter to Virginia Woolf 271
• 88 - L. P. Hartley, from a Review, Week-End Review 272
• 89 - Louis Kronenberger, New York Times Book Review 273
• 90 - Storm Jameson, Review, Fortnightly Review 276
• 91 - Two Opposing American Views 278
• 92 - Unsigned Review, San Francisco Chronicle 283
• 93 - Gerald Sykes, Review, Nation (New York) 284
• 94 - Edwin Muir, Review, Bookman (New York) 286
• 95 - Gabriel Marcel, Review, Nouvelle Revue Française (Paris) 294
• 96 - Floris Delattre on Virginia Woolf and Bergson 299
• 97 - Two Scrutinies 301
• 98 - William Troy on Virginia Woolf's Poetic Method 314
• 99 - Virginia Woolf in Italy 316
• Flush 320
• 100 - Peter Burra, from a Review-Article, Nineteenth Century 320
• 101 - Maud Bodkin on Archetypal Patterns in Virginia Woolf's Work 324
• 102 - An Enemy: Wyndham Lewis 330
• 103 - The Artist and Politics 342
• 104 - Frank Swinnerton, 'On the Whole Creatively Unimportant' 356
• 105 - 'Feminine Fiction': Two Contrasting Views 359
• The Years 367
• 106 - Theodora Bosanquet, from a Review, Time and Tide 367
• 107 - From an Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement 368
• 108 - Basil De Selincourt, Review, Observer 371
• 109 - Howard Spring, Review, Evening Standard 376
• 110 - Richard Church, Review, John O'London's Weekly 379
• 111 - David Garnett, Review, New Statesman and Nation 382
• 112 - Edwin Muir, Review, Listener 386
• 113 - Pamela Hansford Johnson, Review, English Review 388
• 114 - Peter Monro Jack, from a Review, New York Times 389
• 115 - William Troy, Review, Nation (New York) 392
• 116 - W. H. Mellers, Review, Scrutiny 395
• Three Guineas 400
• 117 - From an Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement 400
• 118 - Theodora Bosanquet, from a Review, Time and Tide 402
• 119 - Basil De Selincourt, from a Review, Observer 403
• 120 - K. John, from a Review, New Statesman and Nation 405
• 121 - Graham Greene, Review, Spectator 406
• 122 - Q. D. Leavis, Review, Scrutiny 409
• Roger Fry 420
• 123 - Herbert Read, Review, Spectator 420
• 124 - E. M. Forster, Review, New Statesman and Nation 423
• Obituary Notices 426
• 125 - Stephen Spender, Listener 426
• 126 - T. S. Eliot, Horizon 429
• 127 - Hugh Walpole, in New Statesman and Nation 432
• Between the Acts 436
• 128 - David Cecil, Review, Spectator 436
• 129 - From an Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement 438
• 130 - Frank Swinnerton, Review, Observer 442
• 131 - Edwin Muir, Review, Listener 443
• 132 - Hudson Strode, from a Review, New York Times 446
• 133 - Malcolm Cowley, Review, New Republic (New York) 447
• 134 - Louis Kronenberger, Review, Nation (New York) 450
• 135 - B. G. Brooks, Review Article, Nineteenth Century 452
• Select Bibliography 461
• Index 463

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