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'Any method is right, every method is right, that expresses what we wish to express.' These are Virginia Woolf's words from 'Modern Novels', a leading essay in the TLS in [...]

Having been advised by his doctor to marry, John Addington Symonds (1840-93) found himself in the summer of 1867 with a wife and two daughters at home. Marriage had seemed [...]

Nuala Hancock CHARLESTON AND MONK'S HOUSE The intimate house museums of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell 240pp. Edinburgh University Press. 70 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 7486 4673 9 Bonnie Kime [...]

Adriana Varga, editor VIRGINIA WOOLF AND MUSIC 348pp. Indiana University Press. Paperback, 19.99 [pounds sterling] (US $35). 978 0 253 01255 5 In a letter to Elizabeth Trevelyan in September [...]

S. P. Rosenbaum THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP MEMOIR CLUB Edited with an introduction and afterword by James M. Haule 216pp. Palgrave Macmillan. 20 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 137 36035 9 The [...]

Anna Bogen WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY FICTION, 1880-1945 240pp. Pickering and Chatto. 60 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 84893 408 5 Women's University Fiction is a book for outsiders. It explores the lives [...]

Virginia Woolf THE LONDON SCENE Introduced by Hermione Lee 80pp. Daunt Books. 10.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 907970 42 9 The London Scene is a little bit seedy. First published [...]

Stephanie Green THE PUBLIC LIVES OF CHARLOTTE AND MARIE STOPES 304pp. Pickering and Chatto. 60 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 84893 238 8 At first glance, Marie Stopes might seem an [...]

Suzanne Hobson ANGELS OF MODERNISM Religion, culture, aesthetics 1910-1960 226pp. Palgrave Macmillan. 50 [pounds sterling] (US $85). 978 0 230 27539 3 The long shadow cast by Nietzsche proclaiming the [...]

Richard Locke CRITICAL CHILDREN The use of childhood in ten great novels 218pp. Columbia University Press. 20.50 [pounds sterling] (US $29.50). 978 0 231 15782 7 Critical Children begins with [...]