<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Boris Ford edited that early version. A Leavisite. Another example of the long arm of the Leavises reaching through the decades to stamp out VW and Bloomsbury. Good luck! <div><br></div><div>(I covered this in Bloomsbury Pie, of course.) <div><br></div><div>Cheers, </div><div><br></div><div>Regina </div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from a small, hand-held device. Please excuse typos.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 16, 2021, at 12:49 AM, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<div>This first appeared in 7 vols in 1961 and was frequently reprinted.
It was revised as "The New Pelican Guide to English Literature" in 1983.
My copy is the 1990 reprint. In vol. 7 is the late (d. 1983) Frank W.
Bradbrook’s "Virginia Woolf: The Theory and Practice of Fiction". In “To
the Lighthouse”:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; MARGIN: 0cm"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">The world of
prose has been united with those of poetry and of art.
‘</font></span><span style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font face="Times New Roman">Orlando’ (1928), though it has brilliant passages, has
not the unity of ‘To the Lighthouse’ and the indulgence of fantasy is inclined
to pall. ... <span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">There
are beautiful passages [in ‘The Waves’], but there is not ‘an intimate
autobiographical sense of life'. ‘The Years’ (1937) contains, near the
beginning, a flash of the old satirical wit in the description of the
hypocrisy of Colonel Pargiter and the death, after a painful, protracted
illness, of his wife. The novel, as a whole, shows signs of tiredness, and is
dull and monotonous. ... </span></font></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">[In] ‘Between
the Acts’ (1941) [the] heart has</font></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"> gone out of
Virginia Woolf's work.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; MARGIN: 0cm"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"> That her genius had burned itself out
is confirmed by the six previousl</font></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">y unpublished
short stories at the end of ‘A Haunted House’ (1944). </font></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Her short
stories, despite some brilliancies, tend to confirm the s</font></span><span style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font face="Times New Roman">ense of a minor talent. </font></span></p>
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<div>“A Haunted House” (1944) Contents: </div>
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<div>6 from “Monday or Tuesday” (1921) :</div>
<div>A Haunted House </div>
<div>Monday or Tuesday </div>
<div>An Unwritten Novel </div>
<div>The String Quartet </div>
<div>Kew Gardens </div>
<div>The Mark on the Wall </div>
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<div>6 published separately:</div>
<div>The New Dress - 1927</div>
<div>The Shooting Party - 1938</div>
<div>Lappin and Lapinova - 1939</div>
<div>Solid Objects - 1920</div>
<div>The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection - 1929</div>
<div>The Duchess and the Jeweller - 1938</div>
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<div>6 unpublished (per Leonard Woolf, but he said “Moments of Being” may have
been published; only that story and “The Searchlight” are finally
revised):</div>
<div>Moments of Being: "Slater's Pins Have No Points" – published 1928</div>
<div>The Man Who Loved his Kind – [1925]</div>
<div>The Searchlight – [1939]</div>
<div>The Legacy – [1940]</div>
<div>Together and Apart – [1925]</div>
<div>A Summing Up – [1925]</div>
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<div>Stuart</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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