Woolf
in the World:
A Pen and a Press of Her Own
Hogarth
Sixpenny Pamphlets
 Virginia
Woolf, who was extremely sensitive to public criticism of her work, characterizes
the reviewer in her satiric essay as “a louse... a distracted tag
on the tail of the political kite.” When Reviewing was
published in November 1939, Leonard Woolf added a practical note to soften
his wife’s strident message. While Virginia feels reviewing should
be abolished, Leonard notes that if an author wants “to sell his
books to the reading public and the circulating libraries, he will still
need the reviewer.” In the final version of her essay, Woolf longs
for the obscurity of the dark workshop in which authors are respected
and not ridiculed like some hybrid “between the peacock and the
ape.”
Virginia
Woolf. Reviewing. London: Hogarth Press, 1939. Presented by Frances
Hooper ’14.
Virginia
Woolf. Reviewing: corrected typescript, [1939].
Presented by Ann Safford Mandel ’53.
 The
Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets included five numbers, beginning with an essay
by the novelist E. M. Forster. In What I Believe, Forster says:
“Tolerance, good temper and sympathy—they are what matter
really, and if the human race is not to collapse they must come to the
front before long.”
E.
M. Forster. What I Believe. London: Hogarth Press, 1939.
Presented by Elizabeth P. Richardson ’43.
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for Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets, 1939.
Presented by Elizabeth P. Richardson ’43.
Sydney
J. Loeb. Leonard and Virginia Woolf in Hyde Park:
photograph (modern print), 1 June 1925.
Presented by Elizabeth P. Richardson ’43.
Mortimer
Rare Book Room, Smith College
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