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Virginia Woolf: collected file, 1928 - 1991

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCRF 8/4/5

Scope and Contents

Material collected for Eileen Atkins’ performance of A Room of One's Own at College in 1989, including:
1) 2 letters from Virginia Woolf to Irene M Biss about her lecture at Girton, 1928;
2) notes about the society she came to address, ODTAA [an elite undergraduate society possibly run by Queenie Leavis, the name probably being a reference to John Masefield's 1926 novel, 'One Damned Thing After Another'];
3) Muriel Bradbrook's (and others) memories of her visit;
4) Photograph of the title-page of the manuscript of 'Women in Fiction', provided by the Fitzwilliam Museum (1 x b/w print 26.5cm x 20.5cm).



Dates

  • Creation: 1928 - 1991

Extent

1 file(s) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

Cupboard 4 (J); GCPH 13/27

Bibliography

The letters from VW to Irene Biss are published in the 'Virginia Woolf Bulletin' Issue No 29, September 2008 with notes by the Bulletin editor, Stuart N Clarke.

Originator(s)

Various

Finding aid date

1998-09-03 10:23:19+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

Contact:
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