Nicolson, Nigel. Virginia Woolf. New York: Viking, 2000. A concise study, written by the son of Woolf’s friends Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West.
Rose, Phyllis. Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.
Spalding, Frances. Vanessa Bell. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
Stape, J. H., ed. Virginia Woolf: Interviews and Recollections. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1995.
Stephen, Sir Leslie. The Mausoleum Book. Introduction by Alan Bell. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. Stephen wrote this epistolary memoir to mourn the death of his wife and Woolf’s mother, Julia, in 1895.
Woolf, Leonard. An Autobiography. 2 vols. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. First published in five volumes by the Hogarth Press, London (1960-1969) under the titles Sowing, Growing, Beginning Again, Downhill All the Way, and The Journey Not the Arrival Matters.
. The Wise Virgins: A Story of Words, Opinions, and a Few Emotions. London: Edward Arnold, 1914. A novel containing recognizable portraits of Virginia and Vanessa, as well as of Leonard and his family.
CRITICISM
Bazin, Nancy Topping. Virginia Woolf and the Androgynous Vision. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1973. A chapter on Night and Day describes Katharine’s “quest for the point of equilibrium between the inner and the outer, the feminine and the masculine.”
Briggs, Julia, ed. Virginia Woolf: Introduction to the Major Works. London: Virago, 1994. Excellent essays by various critics.
DiBattista, Maria. Virginia Woolf’s Major Novels: The Fables of Anon. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980.
Fleishman, Avrom. Virginia Woolf: A Critical Reading. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Astute analysis of the Shakespearean dimension of Night and Day.
Forster, E. M. Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1942. An early study by an old friend.
Majumdar, Robin, and Allen McLaurin, eds. Virginia Woolf: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. Includes Katherine Mansfield’s review of Night and Day mentioned in the Introduction (see p. xiii).
Marcus, Jane. Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. Argues in a chapter on Night and Day that while the novel is “structured on Mozart’s Magic Flute,” it also mocks the opera’s celebration of patriarchy by “invoking a less severe and more feminine alternative.”
Paul, Janis. The Victorian Heritage of Virginia Woolf: The External World in Her Novels. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1987. A chapter on Night and Day calls Katharine “a Modernist spirit trapped in a Victorian novel.”
Roe, Sue, and Susan Sellers, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. A useful collection of essays on Woolf’s work, life, and times.
Rosenthal, Michael. Virginia Woolf. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Lucid and concise study of the major works.
Schlack, Beverly Ann. Continuing Presences: Virginia Woolf’s Use of Literary Allusion. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979.
Squier, Susan M. Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Argues that Night and Day “resembles the classic city novel.”
Zwerdling, Alex. Virginia Woolf and the Real World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Discusses the influence of contemporary history and politics on her work.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fuderer, Laura Sue. “Criticism of Virginia Woolf from 1973 to December 1990: A Selected Checklist.” Modern Fiction Studies 38:1 (Spring 1992).
Kirkpatrick, B. J. A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf. 1957. Third edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Majumdar, Robin. Virginia Woolf: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1915-1974. New York: Garland, 1976.
Rice, Thomas J. Virginia Woolf: A Guide to Research. New York: Garland, 1984.
MISCELLANY
The International Virginia Woolf Society Web Page, which is “devoted to encouraging and facilitating the scholarly study of, critical attention to, and general interest in, the work and career of Virginia Woolf,” has published since 1996 an Annual Bibliography of Woolf Studies that collects papers from the annual Woolf conference. The site’s “Links” page is a valuable source for more on Woolf’s life and work. www.utoronto.ca/IVWS.
VWOOLF is an e-mail discussion list with more than 600 members. It is open to anyone; instructions for how to join can be found on the IVWS website.
