‘War seems inevitable’ – VW, diary 29 August 1935.
‘forget about’ – H. G. Wells to Olaf Stapledon, 4 April 1936.
‘almost as much’ – H. G. Wells to The Times, 19 May 1936.
‘A Manifesto’ – Manchester Guardian, 15 November 1938.
‘Why did they’ – EP, ‘The Eve of the Dark Ages: a tract for the times’. CUL. In the same folder, along with Power’s research notes for the lecture, is C. P. Cavafy’s poem ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’, and an article by H. N. Brailsford titled ‘A Memory of Poland’.
assembly in Geneva – See also her report in the Spectator, ‘Geneva Impressions’, 22 December 1939.
‘large-scale international trade’ – EP, The Wool Trade in English Medieval History (OUP, 1941), p. 1.
‘in your little flat’ – EP to Michael Postan, 29 May 1940. Private collection.
‘rigorously concealed’ – Raymond Firth to Cynthia Postan, 1 July 1983. Private collection.
‘He and I’ – EP to Arnold Toynbee, December 1937. Bodleian.
‘I am not’ – EP to Lionel Robbins, 10 December 1937. LSE Robbins.
‘furious and miserable’ – EP to Margery Garrett, 6 January 1911. Girton.
‘their old interests’ – EP to Margery Garrett, 6 November 1910. Girton.
‘the abstract cause’ – EP to Margery Garrett, 26 March 1911. Girton.
‘I do think’ – EP to Margery Garrett, 6 January 1911. Girton.
‘look upon marriage’ – VW to Leonard Woolf, 1 May 1912.
‘One of the greatest’ – EP to Michael Postan, 29 May 1940. Private collection.
‘to the extent’ – EP to Margery Garrett, 22 August 1910. Girton.
‘We have had’ – EP to Michael Postan, 30 May 1940. Private collection.
‘Harriet Vane’ – Recollection of Barbara Clapham, quoted in Berg, A Woman in History, p. 194.
‘had occasion to’ – Clapham and Power (eds), Cambridge Economic History of Europe from the Decline of the Roman Empire, vol I: The Agrarian Life of the Middle Ages.
‘international pacifism’ – EP, Notes on ‘A League of Nations’, CUL.
‘in spite of’ – EP, A Bibliography for School Teachers of History, p. 10.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
‘no stir in’ – VW, diary 24 August 1939.
‘It’s fate’ – idem.
‘rather rashly’ – VW to Vanessa Bell, 18 June 1939.
‘a tight wound ball’ – VW, diary 14 May 1939.
‘I long for’ – idem.
‘the horror’ – VW, diary 3 September 1928. She uses the same phrase in To the Lighthouse.
‘a grim thought’ – VW, diary 13 July 1939.
‘too tired’ – VW, diary 3 September 1939.
‘The kitchen’ – VW, diary 22 October 1939.
‘a chamber pot’ – VW to Dorothy Bussy, 5 November 1939.
‘I’ve two nice’ – VW to Vita Sackville-West, 19 August 1939.
‘How to go on’ – VW, diary 28 August 1939.
‘She is for’ – Quoted in Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf, p. 690.
‘a base emotion’ – VW, diary 3 January 1915.
‘preposterous masculine fiction’ – VW to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916.
‘the complete ruin’ – VW, diary 17 August 1938.
‘But what’s the’ – VW, diary 28 September 1938.
‘the worst of all’ – VW, diary 6 September 1939.
‘sensible, rather’ – VW, diary 15 May 1940.
‘Over all hangs’ – VW, diary 11 July 1939.
‘betwixt and between’ – VW to W. J. H. Sprott, 15 August 1940.
‘our village’ – idem.
‘the usual fight’ – VW, diary 11 July 1939.
‘We lead a’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 7 February 1940.
‘this doomed’ – VW to Angelica Bell, 16 October 1939.
‘take my brain’ – VW, diary 30 July 1939.
‘all in the know’ – VW, diary 23 September 1939.
‘He gets up’ – VW, diary 25 May 1940.
‘all spoken of’ – VW, diary 19 January 1940.
‘this war means’ – VW, diary 16 February 1940.
‘A good idea’ – VW, diary 5 July 1940.
‘all set on’ – VW, diary 22 October 1939.
‘driving open eyed’ – VW, diary 22 October 1939.
‘Yes, its an empty meaningless world’ – VW, diary 6 September 1939.
‘This idea struck me’ – VW, diary 15 May 1940.
Louie Everest – See Joan Russell Noble (ed.), Recollections of Virginia Woolf by Her Contemporaries.
‘It’s best to’ – VW, diary 6 September 1939.
‘the frying pan’ – VW, diary 6 October 1939.
‘This will see’ – VW, diary 23 September 1939.
‘Leonard says’ – VW to Angelica Bell, 1 October 1939.
‘You can’t think’ – VW to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 2 May 1917.
‘the only woman’ – VW, diary 22 September 1925.
‘a virgin’ – VW to Violet Dickinson, 22 September 1907.
‘As I told you’ – VW to Leonard Woolf, 1 May 1912.
‘dailiness’ – VW, diary 31 July 1926.
‘their bonds were’ – John Lehmann, Thrown to the Woolfs, p. 68.
‘That egotistical young man’ – VW, diary 2 September 1932.
‘create a laboratory’ – John Lehmann (ed.) Folios of New Writing, 1940.
stepped back – Lehmann missed her being present ‘to discuss the manuscripts that came in, to gossip about the authors … to plan new anthologies and new series … and to laugh over the day-to-day alarms and excursions in our office life’.
‘Observe perpetually’ – VW, diary 8 March 1941.
‘roared with laughter’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 6 October 1932.
‘We’re splinters and mosaics’ – VW, diary 15 September 1924.
‘nobody – none’ – VW to Mrs R. C. Trevelyan, 4 September 1940.
‘odd posthumous friendship’ – VW, diary 30 December 1935.
‘While we ate’ – John Lehmann, I Am My Brother, p. 34.
‘I dont feel’ – VW, diary 10 September 1938.
‘paroxysms of rage’ – VW, Roger Fry, p. 153.
‘they are the works’ – Quoted in VW, Roger Fry, p. 157.
‘found out how’ – VW, diary 26 July 1922.
‘You have I think’ – VW to Roger Fry, 27 May 1927.
‘quite futile’ – VW, diary 30 September 1934.
‘new biography’ – See her essay ‘The New Biography’, in Selected Essays.
‘full and outspoken’ – VW, diary 5 April 1935. She told Dorothy Bussy how impressed she was with André Gide’s diaries, which were frank about homosexuality: ‘Why, if he can say all that, can’t I come out with the comparatively modest truth about Roger and his affairs?’ She concluded that she found Gide ‘very French and drastic, and a little stringent. So very French: and here we’re so plumpuddingy.’
‘How does one’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 20 January 1937.
‘full of tailor’s bills’ – VW to Vita Sackville-West, 3 December 1939.
‘almost as a’ – VW, Roger Fry: A Series of Impressions.
‘sheer drudgery’ – VW, diary 25 September 1939.
‘dazed & depressed’ – VW, diary 9 August 1939.
‘A bad morning’ – VW, diary 1 May 1939.
‘an experiment’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 16 August 1940.
‘going over each’ – VW, ‘A Sketch of the Past’, Moments of Being, p. 123.
‘spin a kind’ – VW, diary 20 May 1940.
‘by way of’ – VW, ‘A Sketch of the Past’, Moments of Being, p. 87.
‘shall I ever’ – ibid., p. 109.
‘I was thinking’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 24 December 1940.
‘Lord how I’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 9 July 1940.
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‘miraculously sealed’ – VW, ‘I Am Christina Rossetti’, in The Common Reader.
‘I do not suppose’ – VW, ‘A Sketch of the Past’, Moments of Being, p. 82.
‘convinced that’ – VW to Judith Stephen, 2 December 1939.
‘More and more’ – VW, diary 19 March 1919.
‘the pressures’ – VW, ‘A Sketch of the Past’, Moments of Being, p. 104.
‘I suppose’ – ibid., p. 93.
‘that this violently disturbing’ – ibid., p. 147.
‘anything too intimate’ – VW to Violet Dickinson, November 1904.
‘like being shut’ – ibid., p. 123.
‘his life’ – VW, diary 28 November 1928.
‘tremendous encumbrance’ – VW, ‘A Sketch of the Past’, Moments of Being, p. 52.
‘the fictitious VW’ – VW, diary 28 July 1940.
‘I’m using this frozen pause’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940.
‘though of course’ – VW, diary 9 February 1940.
‘the authentic glow’ – VW, diary 11 February 1940.
‘radiant and buoyant’ – John Lehmann, I Am My Brother, p. 35.
‘very severe lecture’ – VW, diary 20 March 1940.
‘some 100 corrections’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 27 March 1940.
‘to have given’ – VW, diary 20 March 1940.
‘rather proud’ – VW, diary 26 July 1940.
‘fools paradise’ – Quoted in VW to Ben Nicolson, 14 August 1940.
‘Leonard too’ – VW to Ben Nicolson, 24 August 1940.
‘it was hopeless’ – idem.
‘lay under a cornstalk’ – VW, diary 28 August 1940.
‘Its so hot and sunny’ – VW to Vita Sackville-West, 29 August 1940.
‘This diary’ – VW, diary 16 February 1940.
‘protected shell’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 6 July 1930.
‘in a torn state’ – VW, diary 8 December 1939.
‘Everybody is feeling’ – VW, ‘London in War’. Sussex.
‘everyone does’ – VW, diary 1 October 1920.
‘has become merely’ – VW, ‘London in War’. Sussex.
‘no friends’ – VW, diary 6 September 1939.
‘runs so smoothly’ – Draft for ‘A Sketch of the Past’, dated 19 July 1939. Sussex.
‘silent, as if’ – VW, diary 20 January 1940.
‘I don’t think’ – Elizabeth Bowen to VW, 1 July 1940.
‘Why does this’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 25 September 1940.
‘we are going’ – VW to Ottoline Morrell, 9 November 1911.
‘nomadic life’ – LW and VW to Molly MacCarthy, 28 September 1912.
‘At this moment’ – VW, diary 25 September 1929.
‘all so heavenly’ – VW, diary 12 October 1940.
‘divine relief’ – VW, diary 1 October 1939.
‘There is no echo’ – VW, diary 6 March 1941.
‘take a turn’ – VW, diary 24 September 1939.
‘One of the charms’ – VW, diary 1 October 1920.
‘very determined’ – Diana Gardner, The Rodmell Papers, p. 22.
‘did not believe’ – idem.
‘I can’t give’ – VW to Judith Stephen, 29 May 1940.
‘My contribution’ – VW, diary 29 May 1940.
‘now has become’ – VW, diary 23 November 1940.
‘violent quarrels’ – VW to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 6 April 1940.
‘The WI party’ – VW, diary 16 December 1940.
‘I spoke to’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 24 July 1940. Diana Gardner recalled the talk as ‘wonderfully and deliciously funny and I think it appealed to every woman there of all grades of education. It was so magnificently rounded and human and understandable and also very light-hearted.’
‘severance that war’ – VW, diary 15 April 1939.
‘“I” rejected’ – VW, diary 26 April 1938.
‘Wasnt it my’ – VW, diary 27 September 1939.
‘random & tentative’ – VW, diary 26 April 1938.
‘to amuse myself’ – VW, diary 16 September 1938.
‘to go through’ – VW, diary 13 January 1932.
‘how profoundly succulent’ – VW, diary 10 October 1940.
‘Common History book’ – VW, diary 12 September 1940.
‘the effect of country’ – Reading at Random notebook, 18 September 1940. In Brenda R. Silver, ‘“Anon” and “The Reader”’, p. 373.
‘Of course I’m’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 7 June 1938.
‘a reversion’ – VW, diary 22 October 1939.
‘I like outsiders’ – VW, diary 26 October 1940.
‘Keep a running’ – Reading at Random notebook, 3 October 1940. In Brenda R. Silver, ‘“Anon” and “The Reader”’, p. 376.
‘germ of creation’ – idem.
‘always at their’ – ibid., p. 403.
‘a voracious cheese mite’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 14 November 1940.
‘standing about’ – VW to Lady Cecil, 21 March 1941.
‘The war is’ – VW, diary 20 May 1940.
‘so far the’ – VW, diary 25 May 1940.
‘the very flush’ – VW, diary 3 June 1940.
‘the Germans are nibbling’ – VW, diary 4 July 1940.
‘Up till 1.30’ – VW, diary 7 June 1940.
‘I’m too jaded’ – VW, diary 31 August 1940.
Five thousand seven hundred and thirty people – Laurence Ward (ed.), The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939–45, p. 20.
‘thought it better’ – Leonard Woolf, An Autobiography, vol. 2, p. 399.
‘prudently deciding’ – VW, diary 6 October 1940.
‘Should I think’ – VW, diary 2 October 1940.
‘a scuffle’ – VW, diary 11 September 1940.
‘casual young men’ – VW, diary 10 September 1940.
‘he watches raids’ – idem.
‘exhilaration at losing’ – VW, diary 20 October 1940.
‘tumult & riot’ – VW, diary 6 January 1915.
‘odd characters’ – VW, ‘Old Bloomsbury’, Moments of Being, p. 46.
‘street frenzy’ – VW, diary 26 August 1922.
‘London itself perpetually’ – VW, diary 31 May 1928.
‘passion of my life’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 12 September 1940.
‘Odd how often’ – VW, diary 2 February 1940.
‘liberating & freshening’ – VW, diary 29 March 1940.
AFTER THE SQUARE
‘the melancholy relics’ – VW to Lady Tweedsmuir, 21 March 1941.
‘cram in’ – VW, diary 29 September 1940.
‘breakfast, writing’ – VW, diary 12 October 1940.
‘By shutting down’ – At the end of her diary, written on a separate sheet placed at the end of the year, Woolf composed an epitaph for the year: ‘1940 / 37 Mecklenburg Square existed till September. Then bombed. We went up every other week & slept there / We had Mabel / Roger was published on 25th June / The raids on London began in September / France collapsed in June / Raids here began in September / There was the fear of invasion / We were victorious over the Italians / The Greeks were successful in Albania / Herbert Fisher died / Ray Strachey died / Humbert Wolfe died / Hilda Matheson died / Judith & Leslie stayed here for August / Ann stayed with us / Mabel left in October / Louie takes on the house / We go up only for the day / L arranges the vegetable growing / Gives 12 WEA lectures / I am Treasurer of the WI / Morgan asked me to stand for LL Committee. I refused.’
‘in the devil’ – VW to Ethel Smyth 6 December 1940.
‘I’ve had to’ – idem.
‘If refused’ – VW, diary 21 September 1940.
‘a frigidaire’ – VW to Hugh Walpole, 29 September 1940.
‘never had’ – VW, diary 6 October 1940.
‘I want to’ – VW, diary 12 October 1940.
‘I think its an’ – VW, diary 23 November 1940
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‘unparalleled imaginative’ – John Lehmann, Thrown to the Woolfs, p. 101.
‘too silly’ – VW to John Lehmann, 27 March 1941.
‘I never like’ – VW, diary 9 January 1941.
‘An almost pathological’ – Leonard Woolf, An Autobiography, vol. 2, p. 106.
‘trough of despair’ – VW, diary 26 January 1941.
‘I don’t think’ – VW to Leonard Woolf (date uncertain, found 28 March 1941).
‘a serious loss’ – Observer, 6 April 1941.
‘a great deal’ – Elizabeth Bowen to Leonard Woolf, 8 April 1941. Quoted in Elizabeth Bowen, The Mulberry Tree, p. 221.
‘much more responsive’ – ‘Cannot Go On Any Longer: Virginia Woolf’s Last Message’, Sunday Times, 20 April 1941.
‘gloomy and querulous’ – See Joan Russell Noble (ed.), Recollections of Virginia Woolf by Her Contemporaries.
‘another ten years’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 12 September 1940.
‘between 50 & 60’ – VW, diary 16 November 1931.
‘a fizz of ideas’ – VW to Ethel Smyth, 12 January 1941.
‘Oh! That this’ – EP to R. H. Tawney, autumn 1939. LSE Tawney.
2 Sylvester Road – The house, fittingly, is now part of the Needham Research Institute for the Study of East Asia.
‘If only you could’ – EP to Michael Postan, 13 May 1940. Private collection.
‘if I emerge’ – EP to Michael Postan, 29 May 1940. Private collection.
‘You won’t get’ – EP to Michael Postan, 30 May 1940. Private collection.
‘The loss’ – G. M. Trevelyan to Michael Postan, 18 August 1940. Private collection.
‘I am perfectly delighted’ – EP to Helen Cam, 6 February 1938. Girton.
‘For me, it is’ – Alys Pearsall Smith to HM, April 1928. Newnham.
‘I simply couldn’t’ – HM to Jessie Stewart, 9 September 1928. Newnham.
‘so abominably’ – HM to Jessie Stewart, 1 May 1928. Newnham.
‘The words of hers’ – ibid.
‘wash her hands’ – Victoria de Bunsen to Jessie Stewart, 17 March 1943. Newnham.
‘all over the place’ – Leonard Woolf to Jessie Stewart, 3 August 1955. Newnham.
‘I am horribly’ – HM to Jessie Stewart, 26 June 1959. Newnham.
‘unmarried, with Bloomsbury’ – Quoted in Michael Swanwick, Hope-in-the-Mist, p. 47.
‘grown very fat’ – VW, diary 30 November 1929.
‘an unknown author’ – Radio Times, 9 February 1978.
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