Virginia Woolf and the world of books : the centenary of the Hogarth press : selected papers from the twenty-seventh Annual international conference on Virginia Woolf [University of Reading, June 29 - July 2, 2017

'Virginia Woolf and the World of Books' will examine Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press as a key intervention in modernist and women's writing and mark its importance to independent publishing, bookselling, and print culture at large. The research in this volume coincides with the centenary of the founding of Hogarth Press in 1917, thus making a timely addition to scholarship on the Woolfs and print culture Cover 1 Table of Contents 5 Introduction 7 List of Abbreviations 10 Keynote 11 Getting a Hold on Haddock: Virginia Woolf's Inks 12 In the Archives 29 A Voice in the Archives: In search of Woolf's Lost Tape 30 On Manuscripts: Virginia Woolf and Archives 36 Echo's Voices: Virginia Woolf, Irena Krzywicka, and the Well of Loneliness 41 Craftsmanship 49 "Wood is a pleasant thing to think about": William Blake and the Hand-Printed Books of the Hogarth Press 50 Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and "Short Things" 60 "Scarcely a Brick to Be Seen": Breaking Boundaries in "Kew Gardens" and "The Mark on the Wall" 66 Virginia Woolf’s Arts and Craftsmanship 72 The Hogarth Press 79 “obscure, indecent and brilliant”: Female sexuality, the Hogarth Press, and Hope Mirrlees 80 After the Delugue, The Waves 86 Alternative Histories: Hogarth Press’s World-Makers and World-Shakers Series 93 The Hogarth Press, a Singular Art Gallery 103 Hours in a Library 111 Hours in a Library: Virginia Woolf and Leslie Stephen 112 Two Libraries: Reading A Room of One’s Own and Margaret Oliphant’s “The Library Window” 119 Bibliographers, Booksellers, and Collectors of the Hogarth Press 125 The Art of the Book 131 Ekphrastic Writing, Illusive Illustration: Vanessa Bell’s Embroideries for Virginia Woolf’s “Kew Gardens” 132 “The active and the contemplative”: Charles Mauron, Virginia Woolf, and Roger Fry 138 Vanessa Bell’s “tiny book”: Woolf, Impressionism, Roger Fry, and Anti-Semitism 145 The Art of Narrative 151 Woolf as a Model Builder: Complex Form in the “Ode to Cutbush” 152 “Books Were Not in Their Line”: The Material Book and the Deceptive Scene of Reading in To the Lighthouse 159 Mrs. Brown and the Trojan Cow: Deconstructing Aristotle in “An Unwritten Novel” 165 Making New Books: Creative Approaches 171 Queer Woolf: Queer Approaches and Creative-Critical Research 172 Following Virginia Woolf’s Call for a Press of One’s Own: Making Waves Press Launches Judith’s Room 199 Thinking Is Our Fighting: How to Read and Write Like Woolf in the Age of Trump 205 The Book in the World: Woolf's Global Reception 211 The Woolf Behind the Iron Curtain: The Reception of Virginia Woolf’s Works in Romania, 1947–1989 212 Virginia Woolf: Translation, Reception and Impact in Brazil 218 Zines, Polyvocality, and Sound: How Modernist First-Wave Feminism Inspired Riot Grrrl 230 Virginia Woolf and South America: Border-reading 236 Editing and Teaching Woolf 243 Learning Through the (Digital) Archive: Notes on Undergraduate Research 244 Editing Woolf 251 Intertextuality 263 Virginia Woolf’s Appreciation for Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass: Book Making/Reading, Intimacy, Collectivity 264 Reading Intercultural, Intergenerational and Intertextual Woolf: Virginia Woolf’s “The Lady in the Looking-Glass,” Oscar Wilde’s “The Sphinx without a Secret,” and Lady Murasaki’s Yugao 270 To “write about Mrs Lindbergh”: Woolf, Flight, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s North to the Orient 278 Lives in Writing 285 Taste and the Tasteful: Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and the Culture of Queer Elitism 286 Defining Life in Essays and Reports: “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” and the Government Reports on Infant Human Mortality 293 “Penning and pinning”: Vita, Virginia, and Orlando 299 Notes on Contributors 306 Just over hundred years ago, in 1917, Leonard and Virginia Woolf began a publishing house from their dining-room table. This volume marks the centenary of that auspicious beginning. Inspired by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's radical innovations as independent publishers, the volume celebrates the Hogarth Press as a key intervention in modernist and women's writing and demonstrates its importance to independent publishing and bookselling in the long twentieth century. Building on work shared at the 27th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference held at the University of Reading in June 2017, the contributors discuss what Leonard Woolf called'The World of Books'in his long-running column on all sorts of book matters in the weekly periodical the Nation and Athenaeum. Topics include archives, craftsmanship, artwork, libraries, collecting, reading, publishing, translation, reception, re-visions, editing, and teaching. The essays collected here foreground the growing interventions of book and material history in Woolf studies and together provide a timely contribution to debates about independent publishing in our own rapidly-shifting world of books Hogarth Press, the brainchild of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, was 100 years old in 2017. It began in their dining room, its earliest offerings hand sewn by Virginia "hot off the press" and shipped to subscribers, were destined to be foundational in building new approaches to thought and style. Its legacy was celebrated by the International Virginia Woolf Society at its annual conference and this volume of scholarly and thoughtful essays which grew from the conference proceedings celebrates the press, the founders and the world of books and publishing that ushered in modernism as we know it today.