[Vwoolf] Bell biography revisions?

[Stuart N. Clarke]

Bibliographically speaking, the 1996 Pimlico (which I don’t have) is a reprint of the first edn.  Of course, there can be small changes between reprints, but nothing really substantial.  Generally, it seems that Harcourt were left to their own devices to do any corrections: i.e. as Hogarth picked up errors, no one cared about the US.

I have the first Hogarth edns and the Paladin (1976), and there are changes/corrections in the latter:

VOL. I

p. 44 fn changed

p. 75 fn ‘prerogative’ misspelled: corrected

p. 97 Virginia Stephen “had met Croydon in the pages of Virgil” corrected

p. 143 fn JR doesn’t have xxi chapters; should say xii

p. 175 ‘independant’ corrected

p. 227b Perneel corrected on p. 225b

VOL. II

p. 23 Marjory Strachey should be Marjorie

p. 95 ‘Two postcards’ changed to ‘Two examples’

p. 120 ‘ulian’ corrected

p. 224 last line ‘had been’ changed to ‘had seen’

p. 273 running head should be REFERENCES

Stuart

From: Shannon,Drew [School of Arts & Humanities] via Vwoolf 
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 9:06 PM
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Subject: [Vwoolf] Bell biography revisions?

Greetings!  

 

I can’t remember if this has been discussed on the listserv or not, or even if what I’m about to ask is substantive enough to merit discussion.  I have a British paperback of the Pimlico edition of the Bell biography, which claims to be revised.  The copyright page gives the publication history as the original two-volume Hogarth Press edition in 1972, a one-volume Hogarth Press edition in 1982, a revised Hogarth Press edition in 1990, and this Pimlico edition, with further revisions, in 1996.  The changes I see seem to be in the Preface, which is new to the Pimlico edition, and which repeats some of Bell’s material from the original preface (about not being qualified to perform literary criticism on Woolf’s texts), with a bit of added history about Leonard’s suggestion that he write the book and some thoughts on how his opinions about some of Woolf’s novels have changed.  There is a book list at the back, which clearly dates from this new Pimlico edition, as it has books as recently-published as 1994 in it, and the Family Tree has been updated with death dates for people who died after the 1972 original edition.  Is anyone aware of any other substantive changes to the text?  I’ve not gone through it page by page, but wonder if anyone else has.  This is mainly to satisfy my own curiosity more than anything else.  Also, it doesn’t seem that any of the subsequent American reprints of the book have any of these changes – the current Harcourt paperback my students use has the old Family Tree and Preface, as far as I can tell.  

 

Any thoughts would be welcome.  I hope all are well.

Cheers,

Drew

 


     
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      Department of Liberal Arts
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