[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
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Clare Hall, Cambridge
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Literature Cambridge
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