<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="">Re: the reception of Bloomsbury and Woolf in England and America</div><div class="gmail_default" style="">Any study of the reception of Woolf would need to trace not only the social history, as Mark Hussey suggests, but also the economic and political philosophy and stances of the group of critics under observation. I attended a conference on Bloomsbury at Birkbeck College, London, late 90s, I think, where Robert Skidelsky (who had just published the second volume of his biography of Keynes) was featured. He emphasized not only Keynes' "ambivalence" toward aspects of Bloomsbury, particularly during and after World War I, no longer taking certain aspects seriously (see "My Early Beliefs"), but there was considerable Bloomsbury-bashing besides. This was a different climate than what I was experiencing as a Woolf critic in America. I would add economics and politics to the "values" criticism of Leavis. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="">Pat Laurence</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 3:00 PM Neverow, Vara S. via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I think Moody is more appreciative of Woolf in the body of his book. He seems to be struggling in a Sargasso Sea of adverse opinions – and there were many – and he can’t stop quoting them. At least, he faces down the Leavisites head on; his comment on
Frank Bradbrook’s essay is that it, “in its sedulous derivativeness, might be offered as a classic instance of the arid influence which the ‘Scrutiny’ milieu can have on its uncritical followers” (p. 103).</div>
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Many thanks to Harish and Mark and Regina and Stuart! </div>
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I've recently written two pieces on Woolf's evolving status and addressed her (hostile) reception (the Introduction to the first volume of the Bloomsbury
<i>Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources </i>and a chapter for Anne Fernald's forthcoming
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I cited key passages from Mark's "Virginia Woolf in America" in both instances. The research on Woolf-hating was unpleasant to say the least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",times,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Harish's wonderful email fully validates and affirms what I found as I examined the attitudes in the UK and US and elsewhere. And Harish's first-person recollections and
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in Reading Virginia Woolf" (in Mark Hussey and Vara Neverow, eds, </span><i style="font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit">Virginia Woolf: Emerging Perspectives: Selected Papers from the Third Annual Conference on Virginia
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</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",times,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">New York: Pace University Press, 1994), 13– 18).</span></div>
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One of my favorite examples of shrugging Woolf off as exceptionally inferior appears in the front matter for A. D. Moody's slim 1963 volume
<i>Virginia Woolf</i>: "genius places her with the minor rather than the major modern novelists."
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",times,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">And memorably, Anna Snaith calls attention to the revolting contribution by Philip Hensher who wrote ‘Virginia Woolf Makes Me Want to Vomit’, Telegraph, 24 January2003,
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://telegraph.co.uk/__;!!KGKeukY!mvUZzFlXJGuCHhDB62Y4WZa_HkrQ4lL0EGVlXbEzGDyYEQgG3pY7WtP66-u5XeJyJXzgk9Gao_jq$" target="_blank">telegraph.co.uk/</a> comment/ personal- view/ 3586663/Virginia- Woolf- makes- me- want- to- vomit.html (see the second page of Snaith's Introduction to her edited collection
<i>Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies</i>).</span></div>
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I too am grateful to Harish for his very interesting post. At some point during the VW conference last week I mentioned that in the Penguin
<i>Room of One’s Own</i> I bought in 1973 Woolf is identified in the front matter as ‘the daughter of Leslie Stephen and the wife of Leonard Woolf’, as of course she was, but by 1994 when I bought another Penguin edition of it, that note begins, VW ‘is now
recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history’. And that change is due, as several here have pointed out, to the work of many scholars as well as to the amazing access provided by her Estate.</p>
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I see in my copy of Walter Allen’s <i>Tradition & Dream</i> that I bought in 1974 and took off to university with me, Woolf’s ‘moments of revelation and illumination’ are not ‘always illuminative in any real sense. Sometimes they don’t amount to much more than
a series of short, sharp feminine gasps of ecstasy, an impression intensified by Virginia Woolf’s use of the semi-colon where the comma is ordinarily used’. That was the dominant (Leavisite, as Regina Marler noted) view in the mid-1970s in England at any rate.
I’ve written a bit about the difference between English and American reception in ‘Virginia Woolf in America’ (for Christopher Reed’s volume
<i>Rooms of Their Own</i>), but a social history (or phenomenology!!) of the reception of Woolf and Bloomsbury from about the 1930s to now would probably tell us a lot about British and American ‘intellectual’ culture!</p>
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<b>From:</b> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=<a href="mailto:verizon.net@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">verizon.net@lists.osu.edu</a>> <b>On Behalf Of
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<span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Harish’s reminiscences are fascinating, and I’m so glad he thought fit to respond.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Cyril Connolly’s article in the “Sunday Times” was called "Our Lady of Bloomsbury" (16 Apr 1972), which is an excellent review of Noble’s “Recollections of Virginia Woolf”, concluding:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">“To read this book is to get to know a wonderful human being who was also a most gifted writer.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">“In May 1941 ... Horizon produced a special memorial number to her, commissioning articles from T. S. Eliot, Rose Macaulay, V. Sackville-West, Duncan Grant and William Plomer. All these have been reprinted intact ...
no acknowledgement has been made to the provider of this useful brainchild ...”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">There *was* an article called "The Invalid Lady of Bloomsbury" by David Burnham in “Commonweal” (2 Oct 1942), but I haven’t seen it. I believe it reviewed “The Death of the Moth”, Daiches’ book, EMF’s Rede lecture,
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> Thursday, June 17, 2021 6:07 AM</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> Regina Marler
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Cc:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> Stuart N. Clarke ; vwoolf listserve
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<span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Frank W Bradbrook was at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was a student of Leavis. After Cambridge, he taught all his life at what was then the University College of North Wales at Bangor
(and is now the University of Wales, Bangor). He had a Ph D from Cambridge which he published as
<i>Jane Austen and her Predecessors</i>, and besides the one on VW, he contributed (as I recall) a couple of other essays too to the various volumes of the
<i>Pelican Guide</i>. Though Leavis seldom travelled out of Cambridge in his later years, Bradbrook was able to bring him to Bangor to speak there and spend a few days in his hill-top house on Bangor Mountain which overlooked Penrhyn Castle on one side and
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<span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Another significant connection here perhaps is that Frank W B was the brother of M. C. Bradbrook (Muriel Clara), who went on to become a professor at Cambridge and Mistress of Girton. She
is mentioned in VW's diaries c. 1933, for an essay she had published on VW in Leavis's highly influential journal
<i>Scrutiny. </i>As I recall, VW wrote of M C Bradbrook<i>: </i>She is young, ardent and Cambridge. VW saw this attack as a sign that her reputation would now decline. (Sorry I can't check and quote accurately as I am away from home, so this is from fading
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<span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">As for the revival of VW beginning in the 1970s, it was really a rebirth due to her being discovered and hailed as a founding figure of literary feminism, and it marked almost a new start
in VW Studies. Few scholars working now may have any idea of how she was mocked and dismissed until (and into) the 1970s, as being "The Invalide Lady of Bloomsbury", to invoke the title of a book-review on her by I think Cyril Connolly in
<i>The Sunday Times</i>. She was seen as an effete High Modernist, a decadent Bloomsbury aesthete, and as a woman writer with frail nerves who had gone mad several times and eventually committed suicide. It wasn't only Frank Bardbrook; this was the general
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<span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">And it is not only the mighty academic engine of American feminism that has now refashioned VW but also the meticulous publication of her vast archive gifted by Quentin Bell to the U of
Sussex. Without the many volumes of her <i>Letters </i>and <i>Diaries</i>, we might not have had much important source materials to go on. In current scholarship, VW is first and last a feminist, and as would often happen with massive swings of the pendulum,
this has in turn eclipsed some other valuable aspects of her work which are perhaps not in consonance with feminism, such as the lyrical-mystic-intuitive strain that surfaces in her work from time to time, the short shrift that she often gave to materialistic
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<span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">I may add that Frank W Bradbrook supervised my Ph D dissertation which was titled "VW and the Tradition of the English Novel" (1975). I found him to be an exceptionally erudite and broad-minded
scholar, a kind, caring and humorous man, and the kind of punctilious and enabling supervisor and mentor that many Ph D students in these more crowded times may only dream of. I was his first Ph D student (he was in his mid-fifties then) and only the fourth
in English in the then 90-year history of that institution. In Britain in those days, doing a Ph D was thought to be bad form and a somewhat vulgar show-off act in a rather American way. More than half of the staff (now "faculty") in that English Department
did not have a Ph D, including our permanent Head. In many books, the Bibliography at the end began by stating: "The place of publication is London, unless otherwise stated."
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<span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">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!
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<span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">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”:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The world of prose has been united with those of poetry and of art. ‘Orlando’ (1928), though it has brilliant passages, has not the unity of ‘To the Lighthouse’ and the indulgence
of fantasy is inclined to pall. ... 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. ... [In] ‘Between the Acts’ (1941) [the] heart has gone out of Virginia Woolf's work.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> That her genius had burned itself out is confirmed by the six previously unpublished short stories at the end of ‘A Haunted House’ (1944). Her short stories, despite some brilliancies,
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