DiBattista, Maria. Virginia Woolf’s Major Novels: The Fables of Anon. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980.
Fleishman, Avrom. Virginia Woolf: A Critical Reading. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Astute analysis of the Shakespearean dimension of Night and Day.
Forster, E. M. Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1942. An early study by an old friend.
Majumdar, Robin, and Allen McLaurin, eds. Virginia Woolf: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. Includes Katherine Mansfield’s review of Night and Day mentioned in the Introduction (see p. xiii).
Marcus, Jane. Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. Argues in a chapter on Night and Day that while the novel is “structured on Mozart’s Magic Flute,” it also mocks the opera’s celebration of patriarchy by “invoking a less severe and more feminine alternative.”
Paul, Janis. The Victorian Heritage of Virginia Woolf: The External World in Her Novels. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1987. A chapter on Night and Day calls Katharine “a Modernist spirit trapped in a Victorian novel.”
Roe, Sue, and Susan Sellers, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. A useful collection of essays on Woolf’s work, life, and times.
Rosenthal, Michael. Virginia Woolf. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Lucid and concise study of the major works.
Schlack, Beverly Ann. Continuing Presences: Virginia Woolf’s Use of Literary Allusion. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979.
Squier, Susan M. Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City. Chapel Hilclass="underline" University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Argues that Night and Day “resembles the classic city novel.”
Zwerdling, Alex. Virginia Woolf and the Real World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Discusses the influence of contemporary history and politics on her work.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fuderer, Laura Sue. “Criticism of Virginia Woolf from 1973 to December 1990: A Selected Checklist.” Modern Fiction Studies 38:1 (Spring 1992).
Kirkpatrick, B. J. A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf. 1957. Third edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Majumdar, Robin. Virginia Woolf: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1915-1974. New York: Garland, 1976.
Rice, Thomas J. Virginia Woolf: A Guide to Research. New York: Garland, 1984.
MISCELLANY
The International Virginia Woolf Society Web Page, which is “devoted to encouraging and facilitating the scholarly study of, critical attention to, and general interest in, the work and career of Virginia Woolf,” has published since 1996 an Annual Bibliography of Woolf Studies that collects papers from the annual Woolf conference. The site’s “Links” page is a valuable source for more on Woolf’s life and work. www.utoronto.ca/IVWS.
VWOOLF is an e-mail discussion list with more than 600 members. It is open to anyone; instructions for how to join can be found on the IVWS website.
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Industrial city in northwestern England.
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Conservative weekly magazine established in 1828.
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John Ruskin (1819-1900), English writer, art critic, and social reformer.
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Walking stick made from an Asian rattan palm.
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Baron Robert Clive (1725-1774) was governor of Bengal, a province of British India.
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Tite Street lies to the east and Cadogan Square to the north of the Hilberys’ home in Chelsea.
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Elegant neighborhood to the north of Chelsea.
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We later learn (p. 333) that the photographs were taken at Oxford University, which Ralph attended.
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In London’s Westminster Abbey; the burial place of many renowned English writers, including Chaucer, Tennyson, Dickens, Kipling, and Hardy.
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Light, two-wheeled covered carriage with an elevated driver’s seat at the rear.
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County on the eastern coast of England.
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For more on the Hilbery home in Cheyne Walk, see the Introduction, p. xvii.
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Street in London’s West End, northeast of Chelsea.
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Hilly, usually treeless upland of Sussex, a county in southern England.
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Otherwise known as “Big Ben”; its chimes still sound at every quarter hour.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American poet, essayist, and philosopher who espoused self-reliance and individualism.
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John Webster (c.1580-c.1625), English dramatist; Ben Jonson (1572-1637), English dramatist and poet.
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Table (Latin); the ablative case (grammatical form) of a Latin noun generally expresses relations of separation and source, or cause and effect.
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Street running along the River Thames in London’s West End.
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Slang for the London Underground; the subway system started operation in 1863 as the world’s first underground railway.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Austrian composer.
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The oldest part and financial district of London.
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English lexicographer, poet, and critic.
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Three-volume edition of the works of English dramatist William Congreve (1670-1729), printed by the renowned English typographer John Baskerville (London: J. & R. Tonson, 1761).
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1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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English physician and prose writer (1605-1682) much admired by Woolf.
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See the Introduction (pp. xxiv-xxv) for more on Mary Datchet and women’s suffrage.
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Former standard-size writing paper; so-named for its watermark of a fool’s cap and bells.
ac
Former county in southwestern England, now part of Somerset.
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Indigenous London dialect, usually associated with the working class.
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Lying down, especially with the head up.
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Two matters much discussed by Radicals of the Liberal Party before World War I.
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Abbreviations of various societies with offices in the building. S.G.S. most likely stands for Society for General Suffrage.
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Charity Organization Society for social work, founded in 1869.
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Humorous and topical London weekly (1841-1992) that was notoriously hostile to women’s rights.
aj
Reference to the French romantic writers André Chénier (1762-1794), Victor Hugo (1802-1885), and Alfred de Musset (1810-1857).
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Long street running vertically through Bloomsbury.
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Extending from Fleet Street to the Thames, it consists of the Middle and Inner Temple, two of London’s four Inns of Court.
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English comic novelist (1707-1754), author of Tom Jones and other works; much admired by Sir Leslie Stephen.
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Small town in Suffolk.
ao
That is, Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil, a narrative love poem by English poet John Keats (1795-1821).
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Westminster Abbey is London’s most renowned place of worship and often the site of state weddings; Katharine’s grandfather is buried there, in Poets’ Corner (see footnote on page 31).
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Islands off the coast of northwestern Scotland.
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Pleated or gathered materials, such as flounces on women’s dresses.
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Empress Eugénie (1826-1920), the wife of Napoleon III, was a frequent visitor to London.