[Vwoolf] WoolfNotes.com: Virginia Woolf's Reading and Research Notes Online

[Jane Marie Garrity]

This is truly an incredible resource and I’m so grateful for all of the labor that has gone into this fabulous project—thank you so much!
Jane

Jane Garrity
Associate Professor of English
University of Colorado at Boulder
226 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0226
Jane.Garrity at Colorado.Edu

On Jun 2, 2024, at 4:28 AM, Michele Barrett via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

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Virginia Woolf’s Reading and Research Notes Online
 Since 2016, Brenda Silver and I have been collaborating on a project to digitise Woolf’s reading and research notes.  WoolfNotes.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://WoolfNotes.com__;!!KGKeukY!xUOv9l7u3gnh0HBG8d6-gOzVX9Ji8VgUvFdbDE-SLgmY8-nIkb_uoGOCmZeDX7EpPVYaMwaSv6er3Qufh8k59XnIrT-QeA$> is now live and we hope you find it useful and enjoyable.   https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.WoolfNotes.com__;!!KGKeukY!1DiaWYz0jBbom0-fAeeWmAQUOK_yQ4r29xYUt6WmPbQWYumiwpaFJVOsYip1v9n-ChMTy8XqJOxxFfHqDFMXxbnihe8wtg$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.woolfnotes.com/__;!!KGKeukY!xUOv9l7u3gnh0HBG8d6-gOzVX9Ji8VgUvFdbDE-SLgmY8-nIkb_uoGOCmZeDX7EpPVYaMwaSv6er3Qufh8k59XkmCjnnSQ$>
 The core of the project is the 67 reading notebooks that Silver researched and described in detail in her original 1983 book, published by Princeton University Press, Virginia Woolf’s Reading Notebooks.   This book was digitised in 2017 and published by the University Press of New England.  Silver identified many if not all of the sources read by Woolf, including the specific editions, and pointed to the use that she made of the reading in her published works. In addition, Silver provided a detailed account of the contents of each notebook, particularly useful since Woolf was writing for herself and her handwriting in these notebooks is at times very difficult to read.   Of these original 67 notebooks, RN 1-67 in WoolfNotes.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://WoolfNotes.com__;!!KGKeukY!xUOv9l7u3gnh0HBG8d6-gOzVX9Ji8VgUvFdbDE-SLgmY8-nIkb_uoGOCmZeDX7EpPVYaMwaSv6er3Qufh8k59XnIrT-QeA$>, 33 are archived at the New York Public Library Berg Collection, 33 at The Keep in Sussex, and 1 at the Beinecke Library, Yale.
 WoolfNotes.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://WoolfNotes.com__;!!KGKeukY!xUOv9l7u3gnh0HBG8d6-gOzVX9Ji8VgUvFdbDE-SLgmY8-nIkb_uoGOCmZeDX7EpPVYaMwaSv6er3Qufh8k59XnIrT-QeA$> also includes a number of other Woolf manuscripts related to her reading.  RN 68 is a reading notebook entirely at home with the original 67.  It was privately owned by Mrs Frances Hooper and bequeathed to Smith College in 1986.  It contains reading notes on Trollope and other novelists, presumably connected to ‘Phases of Fiction’.  RNs 69-99 await the discovery of further reading notebooks.
Other inclusions related to Woolf’s reading, but not “reading notebooks” in Silver’s sense, have been prefixed WN (WoolfNotes).  WN100 is Woolf’s famous Agamemnon notebook; WN101 is her personal index of subjects covered in Edward Arber’s anthology An English Garner; WN 102 is a short sketch reflecting on Woolf’s reading of D H Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers in 1931.  We have also been able to digitise the extensive notes on imperialism and international trade that Virginia Woolf made, in her capacity as a research assistant for the preparation of Leonard Woolf’s Empire and Commerce in Africa (1920), and these are included in WoolfNotes.
WoolfNotes.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://WoolfNotes.com__;!!KGKeukY!xUOv9l7u3gnh0HBG8d6-gOzVX9Ji8VgUvFdbDE-SLgmY8-nIkb_uoGOCmZeDX7EpPVYaMwaSv6er3Qufh8k59XnIrT-QeA$> has the approval of the Woolf Estate, which is managed by the Society of Authors in London.  The development and completion of the project owes much to its Technical Director, Gilly Furse of Osprey Websites, whose innovative website design is matched only by her indefatigable research on many topics.   The project was supported by the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London, where it was “soft launched” in 2023.
We are delighted to announce that 2024 brings a new institutional home for WoolfNotes, which has been adopted by King’s College London.  At King’s the project will be taken forward by Woolf scholars Clara Jones and Anna Snaith, and the English Department is providing financial support. Emma Crossey, a PhD student in the department, has been appointed to a part-time role as the WoolfNotes content editor.  This major digital humanities project brings into the public domain Woolf’s last remaining substantial unpublished work.
Readers of the list who are attending the Fresno Conference in June may like to know that Anna Snaith will be there.
Michèle Barrett and Brenda Silver, June 2024
(michelevbarrett at gmail.com<mailto:michelevbarrett at gmail.com>)




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