[Vwoolf] Portrait of a Londoner

[Stella Deen]

Hi Stuart:

Thank you so much for providing this interesting textual history of the six essays.  It is also interesting that the sixth essay was re-discovered both in 1980 and in 2004!  I am very glad to know about Jeannette's two-part analysis, which I have just procured and am looking forward to reading.  Since there is so much interest now in the periodical codes that inform the original reading of an essay published in a magazine, it's great that Jeannette's piece (and, I gather, Kirkpatrick's bibliography) enable readers to find the essays in Good Housekeeping if they are within reach of the British Library.

All best,


Stella Deen (she/her)

Interim Chair, Communication Studies

Associate Professor of English

CSB 50

State University of New York at New Paltz




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I am not aware of how “persistently” this canard has been repeated, but it seems to originate in Francine Prose’s intro. to the NY: Ecco (HarperCollins) edition (& see the dust-jacket) of n.d. (2006): “her lost ‘Portrait of a Londoner’
I am not aware of how “persistently” this canard has been repeated, but it seems to originate in Francine Prose’s intro. to the NY: Ecco (HarperCollins) edition (& see the dust-jacket) of n.d. (2006): “her lost ‘Portrait of a Londoner’ essay, rediscovered in 2004 by British publisher Emma Cahill in the University of Sussex archive” (p. xiii).  See also notes 1 to each of the essays in “Essays” vol. 5 for the location of the proofs etc that are extant.

See also the correspondence below from Woolf_Studies_Annual, 11 (2006): 1-2.

Stuart

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Dear All: I wonder why the sixth of Woolf's London Scene Essays, "Portrait of a Londoner" is persistently said to have been lost until re-discovered in 2004 at the University of Sussex? I have not done any research in the archive,
Dear All:

I wonder why the sixth of Woolf's London Scene Essays, "Portrait of a Londoner" is persistently said to have been lost until re-discovered in 2004 at the University of Sussex?  I have not done any research in the archive, sadly, and perhaps the answer is that "Portrait of a Londoner" was not filed with the other manuscripts in the series.  But since the essay was duly published in Good Housekeeping (in December 1932), preceded by the other London Scene essays, was it really "lost"?


Stella Deen (she/her)

Interim Chair, Communication Studies

Associate Professor of English

CSB 50

State University of New York at New Paltz



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