[Essays 06] • The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 6 by Woolf, Virginia -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents About the Book About the Author About the Editor Also by Virginia Woolf Title Page Introduction Editorial Note Abbreviations THE ESSAYS

1933

London Squares ‘Twelfth Night’ at the Old Vic The Novels of Turgenev

1934

Oliver Goldsmith Foreword to Catalogue of Recent Paintings by Vanessa Bell Why? Walter Sickert: A Conversation Royalty

1935

The Roger Fry Memorial Exhibition The Captain’s Death Bed

1936

Why Art To-Day Follows Politics

1937

The Historian and ‘The Gibbon’ Craftsmanship Reflections at Sheffield Place Miss Janet Case: Classical Scholar and Teacher Congreve’s Comedies: Speed, Stillness and Meaning

1938

Lady Ottoline Morrell America, which I Have Never Seen … Women Must Weep

1939

Two Antiquaries: Walpole and Cole The Art of Biography White’s Selborne Reviewing Lewis Carroll

1940

Gas at Abbotsford The Dream The Humane Art ‘Hary-o: The Letters of Lady Harriet Cavendish’ The Man at the Gate Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid Sara Coleridge Georgiana and Florence The Leaning Tower

1941

Ellen Terry Mrs Thrale

ADDITIONAL ESSAYS 1906–1924

‘Chippinge’ ‘Occasion’s Forelock’ ‘Abbots Verney’ ‘The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square’ ‘Memoirs of a Person of Quality’ ‘Disciples’ ‘Carlyle and the London Library’ ‘Old Hampshire Vignettes’ Mary Christie ‘The Wingless Victory’ Lady Huntingdon ‘In Playtime’ Some Poetic Plays The Call of the East ‘The Longest Journey’ Mrs Sellar’s Recollections ‘Letters of a Betrothed’ Venice ‘A Mirror of Shalott’ ‘The Feast of Bacchus’ ‘The Red Sphinx’ ‘Love the Judge’ ‘Tales of Two People’ ‘Mam Linda’ ‘The Weavers’ ‘The Square Peg’ ‘Outrageous Fortune’ ‘The Desert Venture’ ‘The Forest Playfellow’ ‘The Northern Iron’ Some Poetical Plays Rachel Gurney of the Grove ‘Father Alphonsus’ ‘Colonel Kate’ ‘The Ways of Rebellion’ ‘The Wolf’ ‘The Sword Decides’ ‘The Red Neighbour’ ‘Destinies’ ‘Marotz’ ‘Between the Twilights’ ‘Masques and Phases’ Lysistrata A Friend of the Great Duke ‘Women of the Country’ Butterflies and Moths: Insects in September The Rough Road ‘The Old Madhouse’ ‘Vision and Design’ A Letter to a Lady in Paraguay ‘Maud-Evelyn, &c.’ [and] ‘The Sacred Fount’ ‘The Art of Thomas Hardy’ What is a Good Novel? Strangely enough, that engaging acrobat … ‘The Faithful Shepherdess’ …

Acknowledgements APPENDICES

I Variant Essays

The Novels of Turgenev A Conversation about Art

II Essays Posthumously Published by Leonard Woolf

On Re-reading Novels ‘The Antiquary’ Personalities The Death of the Moth Flying over London Gas Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car Modern Letters Ruskin Notes on D. H. Lawrence Old Mrs Grey Middlebrow Professions for Women Crabbe ‘The Faery Queen’ Fishing Madame de Sévigné Royalty The Moment: Summer’s Night

III Draft Essays

Friendships Gallery Tchekhov on Pope Some French Books Three Characters The ‘Dreadnought’ Hoax Anon [and] The Reader

IV Wireless Broadcasts

Are Too Many Books Written and Published? Beau Brummell Craftsmanship

V Additions and Corrections to Volumes I–V

Miss Ormerod

VI The Text of The Common Reader VII Notes on the Journals

Bibliography Index to Essays in Volumes I–VI Index to Volume VI Copyright

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