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Woolf, Adeline Virginia, 1882 - 1941 (novelist)

 Person

Dates and places

1882-1941

Sphere of activity

Novelist, essayist, biographer and critic

Relationships

Daughter of Leslie and Julia Stephen; sister of Vanessa Bell; married 1912 Leonard Woolf.

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

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 Sub-Series

Letters from Virginia Woolf to various recipients, 1936 - 1939

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0272/CHA/1/686
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series comprises correspondence, chiefly letters written and received by Clive and Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Julian and Quentin Bell, by Vanessa Bell's mother Julia Stephen and others.

Dates: 1936 - 1939
 File

Letters to Rosamond Lehmann, 1928-07-02 - 1937-08-20

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/RNL/2/669
Scope and Contents

6 autograph letters signed and 1 autograph postcard signed.

Dates: 1928-07-02 - 1937-08-20
Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: Some items contain sensitive personal information and are closed to researchers under the terms of the Data Protection Act (1998). A request to view these items must be made in writing to the Archivist who will discuss with the researcher the possibilities for obtaining the written permission of the author. A statement to this effect is given with each closed file.
 File

Letters to Vanessa and Clive Bell on the death of Virginia Woolf, 1941-04

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/CHA/1/697
Scope and Contents Photocopies of 60 autograph letters signed from: Colin Agnew, Barbara Bagenal, Margaret Balchin, Col. Cory Heward Bell, Mrs. H. T. Bell, Nellie Boxall, Nelly Cecil, Bishop of Chichester, 'K' [Kenneth Clark], Marie Collett, [?Violet Dickinson], Margaret Duckworth, Sophia Farrell, Lettice Fisher, E.M. Forster, Ethel Grant, Edward Lewis, Ruby Lindsay, 'Topsy' Lucas, [Molly MacCarthy], Violet Mannering, Beatrice Mayor, Raymond Mortimer, Victor Pasmore, Patricia Preece, Claude and Elsie Rogers,...
Dates: 1941-04
 File

'Memoir Club', 1920 - 1929

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/REF/1/171
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript, typescript and carbon typescript memoir describing the circumstances of REF's departure to Sunninghill School in 1877. Includes details of Sir Edward Fry becoming a judge, a family holiday in Hertfordshire and parental attitudes to the Russo-Turkish War. The file also contains a typescript transcript by Virginia Woolf, [mid 1930s].

Dates: 1920 - 1929
 Sub-Series

News cuttings relating to Virginia Woolf: 'Roger Fry: a biography', Hogarth Press: London, 1940, 1904 - 1940

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0272/REF/13/11
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes reprints, newspaper cuttings, memoirs and catalogues. Mostly collected after REF's death.

Dates: 1904 - 1940
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Notes made while sorting out REF's papers, 1935 - 1969

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/REF/13/6
Scope and Contents

Assorted contents notes on small cards, envelopes and slips of paper, made in the course of sorting out REF's papers. Include details of 1) certain REF letters to his father and Helen Fry; and 2) news cuttings of articles and reviews by REF.

Dates: 1935 - 1969
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'Nurse Lugton's Curtain', 1920 - 1929

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/CHA/4/3
Scope and Contents

Typescript short story with autograph manuscript corrections.

Dates: 1920 - 1929
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Photocopies, 1905 - 1953

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/CHA/1/616/2
Scope and Contents

45 autograph letters signed and 2 manuscript poems. 1905-1953.
Includes:
1 autograph letter signed to Virginia Stephen. Undated.

Dates: 1905 - 1953
 Item

Playreading Society Minute Book, 1907 - 1915

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0272/CHA/5/1
Scope and Contents Minutes, written up by Clive Bell, of the meetings of a play-reading society [?at 40 Gordon Square], with cast lists and comments on the performances by Clive Bell. The players were variously Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell, Walter Lamb, Adrian Stephen, Lytton Strachey and Saxon Sydney-Turner, 1907-9; Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell, Roger and Margery Fry, Duncan Grant, Molly MacCarthy and Saxon Sydney-Turner, 1914-15. For the later period, fewer performance details are recorded. The book was used...
Dates: 1907 - 1915
 File

REF to Virginia Woolf, 1920 - 1923

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/REF/11/42
Scope and Contents

Typescript transcripts of 3 letters.

Dates: 1920 - 1923
 File

Stephen [later Woolf], Virginia, 1912-03-09

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/RCB/L/9/11
Scope and Contents

1 autograph letter, signed, with manuscript transcript by Edward Marsh and 3 typescript transcripts (1 of which is expurgated).

Dates: 1912-03-09
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'The Novels of Virginia Woolf', 1926-01-09

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMF/4/26
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of typescript draft of 'The Novels of Virginia Woolf' to be published in the 'Yale Review', with autograph manuscript annotations.
To request this document, please use the following call mark: 4/26/C

Dates: 1926-01-09
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Three figures sitting in a rocky landscape, 1922 - 1930

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0272/FCP/7/4/1/37
Scope and Contents

Faded snapshot of a woman and two men sitting on rocks in the open air. One man might be Lytton Strachey, the woman might be Virginia Woolf (according to Frances Partridge's index both appear in photographs on page 5 of this album).

Dates: 1922 - 1930
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'Two sisters: Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell', 1980-11-30

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/GHWR/4/16/11
Scope and Contents

Written for the Charleston Appeal.

Dates: 1980-11-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the Rylands Papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre. Record consultation is by appointment. Personal letters of living authors may only be consulted with their written permission. Some material is reserved in view of its sensitivity. There is no access to such material for the time being.
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Untitled memoir of the garden at 6 The Grove, Highgate, 1920 - 1929

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/REF/1/169
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript memoir of the garden at 6 The Grove, Highgate and of REF's cultivation of poppies. Ends abruptly. On the reverse of the second sheet is a pencil sketch of 2 seated women [? Virginia Woolf and Lydia Lopokova Keynes].

Dates: 1920 - 1929
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'Virginia Woolf', 1956

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/GHWR/2/4
Scope and Contents

The file comprises a typescript script, with autograph manuscript emendations.

Dates: 1956
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the Rylands Papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre. Record consultation is by appointment. Personal letters of living authors may only be consulted with their written permission. Some material is reserved in view of its sensitivity. There is no access to such material for the time being.
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Virginia Woolf Centenary Conference, 1982-09-20 - 1982-09-22

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/BLM/17
Scope and Contents

Menu, programme, advertising poster and list of participants for the conference held at Fitzwilliam College.

Dates: 1982-09-20 - 1982-09-22
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Virginia Woolf's review of 'Memoir', 1918-08-21

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/RCB/Xf/10
Scope and Contents

One autograph letter, signed, from Virginia Woolf to Mary Ruth Brooke about her review of Edward Marsh's 'Memoir' (1918); with envelope.

Dates: 1918-08-21
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