[Vwoolf] Leonard Woolf as copy editor

[Mark Hussey]

No, VW was quite sloppy and LW copy edited her texts. In The Death of the
Moth and Other Essays (1942), Leonard wrote of his having “punctuated and
corrected obvious verbal mistakes. I have not hesitated to do this, since I
always revised the MSS. of her books and articles in this way before they
were published.”

 

Of course, as recent textual editing theory has taught us, editing is always
interpretation!

 

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Is it John Lehmann who has written about how scrupulous a copy editor
Leonard W was? I have a memory of some such account. But did Virginia do
copy editing for the Hogarth Press? I should know this but don't.

Jeremy H

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