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

[Pat Laurence]

Dear Brenda and Michele,
This digitization of Woolf Notes is a wonderful contribution to Woolf
studies that will nurture our community of scholars and writers in the
years to come. Thank you.
Best,
Patricia Laurence
Professor Emerita, City University of New York



On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 10:59 AM Jane Marie Garrity via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> 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
> 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:
>
> [External email - use caution]
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> * WoolfNotes.com
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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
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>  is now live and we hope you find it useful and enjoyable.
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>
>  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
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> 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
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>  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
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>  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)
>
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