Virginia Woolf: Further Reading

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Novels and major works of non-fiction by Woolf

The Voyage Out (1915)
Night and Day (1919)
Jacob’s Room (1922)
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
The Common Reader (1925)
To the Lighthouse (1927)
Orlando (1928)
A Room of One’s Own (1929)
The Waves (1931)
Flush: A Biography (1933)
The Years (1937)
Three Guineas (1938)
Between the Acts (1941)
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)

Short story collections

Monday or Tuesday (1921)
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories, ed. Leonard Woolf (1944)
The Complete Shorter Fiction, ed. Susan Dick (1985; London, Vintage, 2003)
The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction, ed. David Bradshaw (Oxford University Press, 2001)

Essays

Virginia Woolf: Selected Essays, ed. David Bradshaw (OUP, 2008)
Collected Essays, 6 vols. ed. variously by Andrew McNeillie and Stuart Clarke (1986-2011)
‘Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown’ (1924). Rpt in Selected Essays, ed. Bradshaw
‘I am Christina Rossetti’, Nation & Athenaeum, 6 Dec. 1930. Rpt in The Essays of Virginia Woolf, vol. 5, ed. Stuart Clarke (London: The Hogarth Press, 2009), 208-17
‘Professions for Women’ (1931), rpt in Selected Essays, ed. Bradshaw
‘A Sketch of the Past’ in Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writing (Triad Granada, 1974)

Selected novels and memoirs of the First World War

Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War (1928)
H. D., Bid Me to Live (1960)
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)
Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End, 4 vols. (1924-28)
Ford Madox Ford, No Enemy (1929)
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)
Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That (1929)
D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love (1920)
D. H. Lawrence, The Captain’s Doll (1923)
D. H. Lawrence, The Ladybird (1923)
Wyndham Lewis, Tarr (1918; 1928)
Rose Macaulay, Non-Combatants and Others (1916)
Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight (1939)
Helen Zenna Smith, Not So Quiet (1930)
Leonard Woolf, Downhill All the Way (autobiography of years 1919-39) (1967)

Selected critical works on Woolf

• Alt, Christina, Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• Beer, Gillian, Arguing with the Past (Routledge, 1989)
• Beer, Gillian, Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground (Edinburgh University Press, 1996)
• Berman, Jessica, ed., A Companion to Virginia Woolf (Blackwell, 2016)
• Blair, Emily, Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel (State University of New York Press, 2007)
• Bowlby, Rachel, Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf, rev. edn (Edinburgh University Press, 1997)
• Caws, Mary Ann and Nicola Luckhurst, eds., The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe (Continuum, 2002)
• Chan, Evelyn Tsz Yan, Virginia Woolf and the Professions (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
• Clewell, Tammy, ‘Consolation Refused: Virginia Woolf, the Great War, and Modernist Mourning’, Modern Fiction Studies, 50, 1 (Spring 2004)
• De Gay, Jane, Virginia Woolf’s Novels and the Literary Past (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
• De Gay, Jane, Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
• Dusinberre, Juliet, Virginia Woolf’s Renaissance: Woman Reader or Common Reader? (Macmillan, 1997)
• Ellis, Steve, Virginia Woolf and the Victorians (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• Ellmann, Maud, The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• Froula, Christine, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2005)
• Goldman, Jane. The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• Hargreaves, Tracy, ‘The Grotesque and the Great War in To the Lighthouse’, in Suzanne Raitt and Trudi Tate, eds., Women’s Fiction and the Great War (Oxford University Press, 1997), 132-50
• Humm, Maggie, ed., The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
• Jones, Clara, Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist (Edinburgh University Press, 2016)
• Koutsantoni, Katerina, Virginia Woolf’s Common Reader (Ashgate, 2009)
• Laurence, Patricia, Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China (University of South Carolina Press, 2003)
• Lee, Hermione, Virginia Woolf (Chatto and Windus, 1996) [biography]
• McNichol, Stella,Virginia Woolf and the Poetry of Fiction (Routledge, 1990)
• Moran, Patricia, ‘Virginia Woolf and the Scene of Writing’, Modern Fiction Studies, 38, 1 (Spring 1992) [reads Woolf with Klein]
• Morris, Pam, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism (Edinburgh University Press, 2017)
• Newman, Hilary, ‘Three Guineas and The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, 25 (2007), 23-31
• Outka, Elizabeth, Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature (Columbia University Press, 2020)
• Pease, Allison, ed., The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• Randall, Bryony and Jane Goldman, eds., Virginia Woolf in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
• Raitt, Suzanne, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990)
• Rubenstein, Roberta, Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View (Palgrave, 2009)
• Reinhold, Natalya, ed., Woolf Across Cultures (Pace University Press, 2004)
• Rich, Adrienne, ‘When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision’, College English, 34, 1 (Oct. 1972), 18-30. Available via JStore
• Scott, Bonnie Kime,  In the Hollow of the Wave: Virginia Woolf and the Modernist Uses of Nature (University of Virginia Press, 2012)
• Sellers, Susan, Vanessa and Virginia (Two Ravens Press, 2008) [a novel about Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell]
• Sellers, Susan, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• Silver, Brenda, Virginia Woolf’s Reading Notebooks (Princeton University Press, 1983)
• Simpson, Kathryn, Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf (Palgrave, 2008)
• Snaith, Anna, Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations (Palgrave, 2001)
• Snaith, Anna, ‘Virginia and Leonard Woolf: Writing against Empire’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 50, 1 (2015), 19-32
• Southworth, Helen, ed., Leonard and Virginia Woolf: The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
• Spalding, Frances, Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision (National Portrait Gallery, 2014)
• Tate, Trudi, ‘Mrs Dalloway and the Armenian Question’, in Tate, Modernism, History and the First World War (Manchester University Press, 1998; HeB, 2013)
• Whitworth, Michael, Virginia Woolf (Oxford University Press, 2005)
• Wilson, Peter, The International Theory of Leonard Woolf: A Study in Twentieth-Century Idealism (Palgrave, 2003)
• Zink, Suzana. Virginia Woolf’s Rooms and the Spaces of Modernity (Palgrave, 2018)
• Zoob, Caroline. Virginia Woolf’s Garden: The Story of the Garden at Monk’s House (Jacqui Small LLP, 2013)
• Zwerdling, Alex, Virginia Woolf and the Real World (University of California Press, 1986)

Some history and literary history of the FWW

Clark, Christopher, Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (2012)
de Groot, Gerard, Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War (1996)
Gregory, Adrian, The Last Great War (2008)
Hynes, Samuel, A War Imagined (1990)
Tate, Trudi and Kate Kennedy, eds., The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory after the Armistice (2013)
Wilson, Trevor, Myriad Faces of War (1986)
Winter, J. M., Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (1998)

Some histories of Cambridge and the women’s colleges

Bradbrook, M. C. That Infidel Place: A Short History of Girton College, 1869-1969 (Chatto & Windus, 1969)
Davies, Emily, The Higher Education of Women (1886; rpt CUP)
Gardner, Alice, A Short History of Newnham College (1921; rpt CUP)
Leedham-Green, Elizabeth, A Short History of the University of Cambridge (CUP, 1996)
Shils, Edward and Blacker, Carmen, eds., Cambridge Women: Twelve Portraits (CUP, 1996)
Stephen, Barbara, Emily Davis and Girton College (Constable, 1927; rpt CUP)
Sutherland, Gillian, Faith, Duty, and the Power of Mind: The Cloughs and Their Circle, 1820-1960 (CUP, 2006)
Tullberg, Rita McWilliams, Women at Cambridge, rev. edn (CUP, 1998)

• Exhibition on women at Cambridge, University Library, 2020. The Rising Tide.
• Ann Kennedy Smith (who teaches for Literature Cambridge) has an excellent website with essays on women who changed Cambridge.

Selected criticism on The Waves

• Beer, Gillian, ‘The Waves: The Life of Anybody’, in Beer, Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground (Edinburgh University Press, 1996)
• Clements, Elicia, ‘Transforming Musical Sounds into Words: Narrative Method in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves’, Narrative, 13, 2 (May 2005), 160-81. On JStore: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20107371
• MacDuff, Sangam, ‘After the Deluge, The Waves’, in Virginia Woolf and the World of Books, ed. Nicola Wilson and Claire Battershill (Clemson University Press, 2018), 76-82
• Randall, Bryony, Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life (Cambridge University Press, 2007), chapter 5
• Sutton, Emma, Virginia Woolf and Classical Music (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), chapter 6