Woolf Studies Annual Vol. 16

By her own account, Virginia Woolf “never went to school or college,” educating herself by reading freely in her father’s extensive library. Newly-discovered records in the archives of King’s College London reveal that, in fact, Woolf’s (and her sister Vanessa’s) formal education was more extensive than hitherto known. Christine Kenyon Jones & Anna Snaith reproduce in their article syllabi, exam pass lists and registrations for the Stephen sisters between 1897 and 1901. Also in this volume, Bette London writes on A Room of One’s Own and the culture of memorialization; Janice Stewart discusses Woolf’s relations with her father in Freudian terms; James Wurtz revisits the issue of Empire in To the Lighthouse; Monica Miller builds on Alison Light’s research to explore Woolf’s servant characters; M-C Newbould brings to light the role of Sterne in shaping Woolf’s own literary ambitions; and Nicky Platt discerns a debt to Freud in the early drafts of Woolf’s final work. Fifteen new works in modernist studies are reviewed.

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