[Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf's marked copies of her books?

Sat Jul 27 11:07:45 EDT 2024

"how much she owed Peter Walsh later": without my books here, am I right 
to think that Stella McNichol is wrong to cite that 1929 reading in her 
textual notes as "how much she owed to Peter Walsh later"?

And while I am writing, what was the word changed between impressions of 
A Room of One's Own??

On 7/27/2024 8:22 AM, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:
> It has been remarked that, since VW knew from her own experience the 
> practicalities involved in setting type, when she altered a line in a 
> reprint she was careful to ensure that that line did not spill over 
> onto the following line. Thus, in
> It has been remarked that, since VW knew from her own experience the 
> practicalities involved in setting type, when she altered a line in a 
> reprint she was careful to ensure that that line did not spill over 
> onto the following line. Thus, in this instance, “Yet, after all, how 
> much she owed to him later.” became “Yet how much she owed Peter Walsh 
> later.” (p. 56).
> If one were editing the text, it would be reasonable to argue that 
> what VW ‘really’ wanted was to amend it to “Yet, after all, how much 
> she owed to Peter Walsh later.”
> Stuart
>
> *From:* mhussey at verizon.net
> *Sent:* Friday, July 26, 2024 4:47 PM
> *To:* 'Stuart N. Clarke' ; 'Edward Mendelson' ; vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> *Subject:* RE: [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf's marked copies of her books?
>
> For what it’s worth, in the ‘Definitive’ (!!!) Hogarth edition issued 
> in 1990 G. Patton Wright says: ‘Virginia Woolf died in 1941, so the 
> last edition she could possibly have overseen was E4, published in 
> 1942. Given the state of her health, her depression, and the 
> unfinished work on her last novel /Between the Acts/, it is reasonable 
> to conclude that she would have taken little interest in a new edition 
> of /Mrs. Dalloway/, one printed according to restrictions of the 
> wartime economy. Previoously, the next latest edition she might have 
> corrected was the “Uniform Edition” (E3), published by Hogarth in 1929 
> and reissued in 1933. A collation of this text against E1 reveals that 
> it is not entirely a photo-offset reprint as Kirkpatrick claims. For 
> example, on page 56, when Clarissa recalls her experiences with Peter 
> Walsh at Bourton, both E1 and E2 read: “Yet, after all, how much she 
> owed to him later.” However, E3 reads: “Yet how much she owed Peter 
> Walsh later.”
>
> Et cetera !! I agree with BJK that it seems impossible to produce any 
> error-free book (speaking as someone who spent about four years 
> ‘editing’ Between the Acts and missed a real howler…).
>
> *From:*Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net at lists.osu.edu> *On 
> Behalf Of *Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf
> *Sent:* Friday, July 26, 2024 9:54 AM
> *To:* Edward Mendelson <edward.mendelson at columbia.edu>; 
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf's marked copies of her books?
>
> I am not aware of the differences in the reset edition of Mrs Dalloway 
> in 1942, but it was reset because of wartime requirements: "some of 
> Woolf’s books that Leonard decided had to be reprinted would have 
> resulted in a profligate use of the
>
> I am not aware of the differences in the reset edition of /Mrs 
> Dalloway/ in 1942, but it was reset because of wartime requirements:
>
> "some of Woolf’s books that Leonard decided had to be reprinted would 
> have resulted in a profligate use of the paper quota.  Mrs. Dalloway 
> appears to have been an unfortunate example.  When it was published in 
> 1925, it ran to 294 pages; my sample page (177) has 223 words.  Owing 
> to the paper shortage, Leonard must have decided in 1941 to have it 
> reset, reducing it to 252 pages; my sample page (149), which describes 
> almost the same scene as the corresponding sample page in the first 
> edition, has 270 words.  It was published early in 1942 and therefore 
> should have had 323 words to the page, but it would not have needed to 
> comply with the Agreement as the typesetting would have begun before 1 
> January 1942; it does not carry the economy declaration.  In 1946, 
> Chatto & Windus ‘took under its management the Hogarth Press’ (Warner 
> 23) and decided to issue Mrs. Dalloway under its Zodiac Press 
> imprint.  It is hard to believe nowadays, when labour costs so much 
> and goods so comparatively little, that the novel had to be reset once 
> again, so that it could be printed in 1947 ‘in complete conformity 
> with the authorised economy standards’ ([4]).  Now it was reduced to 
> 216 pages of a slightly larger size than in 1942, and my sample page 
> (129) reaches the target with 322 words." (/VWB/ no. 51, p. 33)
>
> Someone (Leonard? John Lehmann?) would have found a copy of Mrs D – 
> hopefully the 2nd imp., but more likely the Uniform of 1929 or its 
> reprint of 1933 (I haven’t seen a copy, but it was probably the last 
> time ‘destestable’ appeared) – and chucked it over to the printers of 
> the Garden City Press in Letchworth, Herts (where the Hogarth Press 
> itself was now located), and told to get on with it.  Someone might 
> just possibly have remembered an additional correction or corrections 
> (kept in a folder, even), and someone, hopefully, would have checked 
> the text when it came back from the printers.  Someone must have 
> noticed ‘destestable’.  It’s wartime, but this is probably how it 
> would have happened in peacetime, too.  (For a considerable number of 
> mistakes in VW’s essays collected in /Granite and Rainbow/ (1958), see 
> /VWB/ no. 51, pp. 35-6.)
>
> B. J. Kirkpatrick told me that she had visited a printer’s, and 
> wondered how any book got produced correctly!
>
> By the way, by comparing the 1942 text with the 1st edn, the 2nd imp., 
> and the 1929 Uniform, you may be able to deduce which was used to 
> produce that new 1942 edn.
>
> Stuart
>
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> From: Edward Mendelson via Vwoolf
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> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2024 1:47 PM
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> Subject: [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf's marked copies of her books?
>
> Two copies of The Voyage Out marked by the author for revision are 
> known to exist. Does anyone know where marked copies might be of her 
> other books? I’m asking in the hope that a marked copy might exist 
> that would give some evidence for the authority (if any) for the 
> changes made in the reset edition of Mrs Dalloway in 1942. My guess is 
> that no such copy is known, or we would all know about it, but it 
> seemed to be worth asking. All information will be gratefully received.
>
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