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

[Francesca Wade]

Thrilling news - huge congratulations and enormous thanks to all involved!

On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 at 23:10, Katherine Hill-Miller via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> What a wonderful gift to the entire Woolf community!​ And what a job—thank
> you so much for your hard work on this one. All the best, Kathy From:
> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+khill=liu. edu@ lists. osu. edu> on behalf of
> Michele Barrett via Vwoolf
> What a wonderful gift to the entire Woolf community!​  And what a job—thank
> you so much for your hard work on this one.
>
> All the best,
>
> Kathy
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> WoolfNotes. com 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 is now live and we hope
> you find it useful
>
> * 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
> <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.
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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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