Virginia Woolf: A Portrait

by Viviane Forrester

  109. On a dark: VO, 7. There was a book: VO, 9–10.

  110. He’s dead: VO, 9. There was a theory: VO, 9. A screw loose: VO, 9. Accumulations of a lifetime: VO, 10.

  111. The great white: VO, 15. The white: VO, 16. Grew dimmer: VO, 20.

  112. VO, 244.

  113. VO, 199.

  114. Flung into the: VO, 281. I’m a mermaid: VO, 281.

  115. VO, 322.

  Part 4

  1. VW to ES, October 16, 1930. L.iv, 231.

  2. VW to ES, October 16, 1930. L.iv, 231.

  3. VW to ES, October 16, 1930. L.iv, 231.

  4. VW to ES, October 16, 1930. L.iv, 231.

  5. an hour’s complete: MD, 120. insisting that: MD, 99.

  6. With the exceptions of Three Guineas (wrongly) and the Roger Fry biography (rightly).

  7. Les Nouvelles Révélations de l’être. Antonin Artaud, Oeuvres complètes VII (Paris: Gallimard, 1967), 120.

  8. France Culture, 1973.

  9. They will: February 20, 1937. D.v, 58. The long: February 20, 1937. D.v, 58. A physical: March 1, 1937. D.v, 63. I’m: March 2, 1937. D.v, 65.

  10. VW to Mary Hutchinson, January 9, 1924. L.iii, 504.

  11. September 23, 1918. D.i, 198.

  12. February 3, 1932. D.iv, 71.

  13. December 12, 1917. D.i, 89–90.

  14. Carrington: Letters and Extracts from Her Diaries, ed. David Garnett (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), 261.

  15. I held her: March 12, 1932. D.iv, 82. There is nothing: March 12, 1932. D.iv, 82. I did not: March 12, 1932. D.iv, 82. I said life: March 12, 1932. D.iv, 82.

  16. March 12, 1932. D.iv, 82.

  17. March 12, 1932. D.iv, 82.

  18. March 17, 1932. D.iv, 83.

  19. May 25, 1932. D.iv, 102–103.

  20. May 25, 1932. D.iv, 103.

  21. See VW to CB, January 18, 1930. L.iv, 129.

  22. Performed at VB’s studio at 8 Fitzroy Street on January 18, 1935. D.iv, 273–74.

  23. VW to Barbara Bagenal, July 8, 1923. L.iii, 56.

  24. But what about: March 13, 1921. D.ii, 100. when we first: LW.iii, 243.

  25. behaving … like: VW to Roger Fry, September 16, 1925. L.iii, 209. Polluted city: Y, 366–67.

  26. VW to VB, January 29, 1918. L.ii, 213.

  27. VW to VB, May 9, 1928. L.iii, 496.

  28. See Alec Craig, The Banned Books of England (London: Allen & Unwin, 1962), 98, as quoted in HL, 400.

  29. almost instantly: April 18, 1918. D.i, 139–40. piece of dynamite: As cited in Victoria Glendinning, Leonard Woolf: A Biography (New York: Free Press, 2006), 202.

  30. VW to LS, April 23, 1918. L.ii, 232.

  31. January 15, 1941. D.v, 352–53.

  32. James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (New York: Penguin, 1976), 627.

  33. VW to VS-W, November 8 (?), 1932. L.v, 121.

  34. VW, Times Literary Supplement 795, December 2, 1920.

  35. VW to ES, April 20, 1931. L.iv, 315.

  36. VW to Roger Fry, October 3, 1922. L.ii, 565.

  37. VW to Roger Fry, May 6, 1922. L.ii, 525.

  38. If someone: Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, trans. Denis Paul and G. E. M. Anscombe, ed. G. E. M. Anscombe and G. H. von Wright (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), 244:32e. It is not: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, ed. D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuinness (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1921), 6.44:149. Someone who: Wittgenstein, On Certainty, 90e.

  39. LW.v, 48.

  40. VW to Saxon Sydney-Turner, September 20, 1925. L.iii, 212.

  41. Virginia Woolf’s opus includes a considerable number of posthumous works, among them her diary (five volumes), her letters (six volumes), and many other titles.

  42. LW to V S-W, December 16, 1925. LWL, 228.

  43. Vita Vita Vita: VW to V S-W, December 23, 1925. L.iii, 225. I have missed: VW to V S-W, January 26, 1926. L.iii, 231. Honey dearest: VW to V S-W, July 18, 1927. L.iii, 398.

  44. Heaven knows: VW to V S-W, July 15, 1927. L.iii, 397. Its the: VW to V S-W, September 25, 1927. L.iii, 423.

  45. VW to V S-W, January 31, 1928. L.iii, 453.

  46. O, 168.

  47. March 22, 1928. D.iii, 177.

  48. VW to ES, November 26, 1935. L.v, 447.

  49. VB to VW, April 27, 1935. VBL, 385.

  50. November 1, 1924. D.ii, 320.

  51. VW to VS-W, August 1931, L.iv, 366.

  52. January 16, 1923. D.ii, 225–26.

  53. VW to VB, May 23, 1931. L.iv, 334.

  54. I scribble: VW to ES, December 24, 1940. L. vi, 453. Such caverns: VW to ES, December 29, 1931. L.iv, 422. Because everyone: VW to ES, December 29, 1931. L.iv, 422. What you give: VW to ES, April 1, 1931. L.iv, 302. she is: VW to Quentin Bell, May 14, 1920. L.iv, 170. An old woman: VW to Quentin Bell, May 14, 1920. L.iv, 170.

  55. VW to VD, June 23, 1925. L.iii, 191.

  56. VW to VD, December 6, 1936. L.vi, 90.

  57. VB to VW, April 20, 1908, as cited in Jane Dunn, A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf (London: Jonathan Cape, 1990), 145.

  58. I put: November 30, 1937. D.v, 120. Nessa and: VW to Edward Sackville-West, February 12, 1928. L.iii, 458.

  59. VB to DG, December 27, 1925. VBL, 287–88.

  60. August 17, 1937. D.v, 108.

  61. December 18, 1937. D.v, 121.

  62. A version of Ape, one of Nessa’s nicknames for Virginia.

  63. I rather think: VW to VB. August 17, 1937. L.vi, 158. your singe: VW to VB, August 3, 1937. L.vi, 152. Oh why: VW to VB, August 8, 1937. L.vi, 155. You shant: VW to VB, August 1937. L.vi, 156.

  64. VW to VB, August 5, 1937. L.vi, 153.

  65. Nessa’s nickname.

  66. VW to VB, April 3, 1925. L.iii, 176.

  67. VW to V S-W, July 26, 1937. L.vi, 151.

  68. March 12, 1922. D.ii, 171.

  69. France Culture, 1973.

  70. TG, 217.

  71. TG, 215–16.

  72. was the least: LW.iv, 27. the faces: September 13, 1938. D.v, 169.

  73. Berta Ruck, author of popular sentimental novels, is indignant, and her husband even more so, when Virginia, in complete innocence, names a character in Jacob’s Room Bertha Ruck … whom she has die, no less! Threat of a lawsuit. Reconciliation. Invitation to a Bloomsbury event. Berta then makes a conquest of Virginia by singing: “Never allow a sailor an inch above the knee.” VW to Roger Fry, September 22, 1924. L.iii, 132.

  74. LW.iv, 168–69.

  75. His books: LW.iv, 169. Handicapped: Sigmund Freud to LW, January 31, 1939. LWL, 244.

  76. If I thought: France Culture, 1973. Never discussed: France Culture, 1973.

  77. France Culture, 1973.

  78. France Culture, 1973.

  79. France Culture, 1973.

  80. VW to VB, May 22, 1927. L.iii, 381.

  81. VW to VB, May 13, 1921. L.ii, 468.

  82. LW.v, 118.

  83. to enlarge: December 2, 1939. D. v, 248. I’m gulping: December 8, 1939. D. v, 249. little facts: September 24, 1939. D.v, 238.

  84. LW.v, 14.

  85. MD, 184.

  Part 5

  1. All the: July 24, 1940. D.v, 304. No audience: June 9, 1940. D.v, 293.

  2. from one: September 29, 1940. D.v, 325. never had: October 6, 1940. D.v, 327.

  3. I don’t: October 2, 1940. D.v, 326. If Hitler: VW to ES, September 12, postscript to letter dated September 11, 1940. L.vi, 431.

  4. Yes, I was: January 26, 1941. D.v, 355. A cricketer: VW to ES, 9 January 1939. L.vi, 309.

  5. June 27, 1940. D.v, 299.

  6. BA, 144.

  7. November 23, 1940. D.v, 340.

  8. November 23, 1940. D.v, 340.

  9. VB to VW, October 14, 1938. VBL, 450.

  10. VW to ES, August 16, 1940. L.vi, 417.

  11. March 20, 1940. D.v, 271.

  12. I’m crying: March 20, 1940. D.v, 271–72. Lord to have: March 20, 1940. D.v, 272.

  13. July 25, 1940. D.v, 305.

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p; 14. July 25, 1940. D.v, 305.

  15. millions lamented: MD, 70. If it doesn’t: VW to Benedict Nicolson, August 13, 1940. L.vi, 414.

  16. Don’t close: August 16, 1940. D.v, 311. Can you: August 31, 1940. D.v, 314.

  17. October 2, 1940. D.v, 326.

  18. February 11, 1940. D.v, 267.

  19. LW.iv, 254.

  20. October 12, 1940. D.v, 328–29.

  21. VW to VS-W, November 15, 1940. L.vi, 446.

  22. VW to Benedict Nicolson, November 15, 1940. L.vi, 421.

  23. May 15, 1940. D.v, 285.

  24. BA, 120.

  25. What wish: BA, 71. it was in: BA, 30–31. The church: BA, 140. but then: BA, 145. This year: BA, 145.

  26. You have taken: BA, 142. This is death: BA, 122.

  27. What she: BA, 138. she raised: BA,144.

  28. exhausted swimmer: MB, 39. to go deeper: MB, 39. And so I: June 23, 1929. D.iii, 235. tranquilly off: June 27, 1925. D.iii, 33. some continuous: June 18, 1927. D.iii, 139.

  29. If I live: VW to John Lehmann, September 17, 1931. L.vi, 381. one ought: VW to Gerald Brenan, June 14, 1925. L.iii, 189.

  30. MB, 108.

  31. November 15, 1940. D.v,338.

  32. December 22, 1940. D.v, 345.

  33. I turn: MB, 107. For in Gods: March 29, 1940. D.v, 276.

  34. I plunged: November 15, 1940. D.v, 338. taking my: November 23, 1940. Virginia Woolf, D.v, 341.

  35. CSF, 312.

  36. The mountain: “The Symbol,” CSF, 288. the virgin: “The Symbol,” CSF, 289. a menace: Deleted portions of the holograph version of “The Symbol” included in “Notes and Appendices,” CSF, 312.

  37. never moves: “The Symbol,” CSF, 290. the most/If I could: Deleted portions of “The Symbol” included in “Notes and Appendices,” CSF, 312–13. great lake: June 23, 1929. D.iii, 235.

  38. “The Mysterious Case of Miss. V,” CSF, 32.

  39. July 24, 1940. D.v, 304.

  40. Initials of Point’z Hall, the working title for Between the Acts.

  41. A battle: January 26, 1941. D.v, 355. We live: January 26, 1941. D.v, 355.

  42. felt as if: VW to Philippa Strachey, February 17, 1941. L.vi, 473. extraordinarily: VW to George Rylands, February 19, 1941. L.vi, 473.

  43. VW to VS-W, November 29, 1940. L.vi, 448.

  44. VW to ES, March 1, 1941. L.vi, 474.

  45. Elizabeth Robins. D.iii, 183.

  46. robust and round-faced: Leon Edel, “Some Memories of Octavia Wilberforce,” in A Cézanne in the Hedge, ed. Hugh Lee (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 117. literature was obviously: Edel, “Some Memories of Octavia Wilberforce,” 119. she sat on: Edel, “Some Memories of Octavia Wilberforce,” 121.

  47. leech: November 29, 1940. D.v, 342. I rather: VW to VS-W, January 19, 1941. L.vi, 462. a doctor: VW to Ethel Smyth, February 1, 1941. L.vi, 465.

  48. VW to OW, February 23, 1941. L.vi, 474.

  49. VW to OW, December 31, 1940. L.vi, 456.

  50. VW to OW, December 31, 1940. L.vi, 456.

  51. OW to Elizabeth Robins, March 30, 1941. Herbert Marder, The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf’s Last Years (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), 362.

  52. Poor Leonard: OW to Elizabeth Robins, December 23, 1940. Marder, The Measure of Life, 350. Did you: OW to Elizabeth Robins, March 14, 1941. Marder, The Measure of Life, 356.

  53. a razor: OW to Elizabeth Robins, February 28, 1941. Marder, The Measure of Life, 354.

  54. OW to Elizabeth Robins, December 23, 1940. Marder, The Measure of Life, 349.

  55. Don’t go: OW to Elizabeth Robins, March 30, 1941. Marder, The Measure of Life, 362. Buck up: OW to Elizabeth Robins. Marder, The Measure of Life, 335. there’s nobody: OW to Elizabeth Robins, March 27, 1941. Marder, The Measure of Life, 358.

  56. See LW.v, 79 and 86.

  57. LW.v, 79.

  58. MD, 98.

  59. VB to VW, March 20, 1941. VBL, 473–74.

  60. VB to VW, March 20, 1941. VBL, 474.

  61. See LW.v, 79 and 86.

  62. February 27, 1941. D.v, 357.

  63. large white: February 26, 1941. D.v, 357. Something scented: February 26, 1941. D.v, 357. infernal: February 26, 1941. D.v, 357.

  64. shell encrusted: March 8, 1941. D.v, 357. No. I: March 8, 1941. D.v, 357.

  65. March 24, 1941. D.v, 358.

  66. March 24, 1941. D.v, 358.

  67. VW to VS-W, March 22, 1941. L.vi, 484.

  68. VW to John Lehmann, March 27, 1941. L.vi, 486.

  69. BA, 38.

  70. LW.v, 91.

  71. LW.v, 80.

  72. OW to Elizabeth Robins, March 27, 1941. Marder, The Measure of Life, 358.

  73. OW to Elizabeth Robins, March 27, 1941. Marder, The Measure of Life, 358.

  74. OW to Elizabeth Robins, March 27, 1941. Marder, The Measure of Life, 358.

  75. MD, 98.

  76. LW.v, 80.

  77. Joan Russell Noble, Recollections of Virginia Woolf (New York: William Morrow, 1972), 160.

  78. Noble, Recollections of Virginia Woolf, 160.

  79. Shakespeare, Hamlet (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), 4.7, 319.

  80. VW to LW, March 18, 1941. L.vi, 481.

  81. March 8, 1941. D.v, 357.

  82. January 9, 1941. D.v, 351.

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