[Vwoolf] e-book of VW diary
Dr T Tate
tt206 at cam.ac.uk
Thu Jan 30 04:51:21 EST 2020
Stuart: Thanks for this reference. Some of the e-books of Woolf are very
inaccurate; others are quite good. How do you rate this Kobo edition?
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/virginia-woolf-the-complete-works-2
Annaliese, I think it's worth the time to read the full text of the
diaries 1927-31 from the full 5-vol. edition, rather than just searching
for keywords, so you get a sense of the context, details, complexity,
etc. Also some terms are not picked up in a search, when for for example
VW uses abbreviations (inconsistently, because it's a diary). One can
miss key entries.
The Writer's Diary is just extracts from the longer diary. The full
diary is really interesting and a wonderful education in itself.
Then perhaps do a digital search afterwards to see if it picks up
anything else.
Secondary sources: Zwerdling's book on VW and the Real World and Leonard
Woolf's memoirs might be useful. The League of Nations is a really
important topic in the politics of the 1920s and a crucial context for
understanding Woolf; good luck with it!
Best wishes,
Trudi
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Dr Trudi Tate
Assistant Senior Tutor
Clare Hall, Cambridge
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Director
Literature Cambridge
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