Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations This page intentionally left blank Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations Anna Snaith Senior Lecturer in English Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge palgrave macmillan * © Eero Palmujoki 2001 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2001 by PALGRAVE Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE is the new global academic imprint of St. Martin's Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd). ISBN 978-1-4039-1178-0 ISBN 978-0-230-28794-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-0-230-28794-5 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manutactunng processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Palmujoki, Eero, 1958- Regionalism and globalism in Southeast Asia I Palmu joki, Eero. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4039-1178-0 (cloth) 1. Asia, Southeastern-Politics and government-1945- 2. Asia, Southeastern-Economic conditions. 3. Regionalism -Asia, Southeastern. I. Title. JQ750.A58 P35 2001 327'.0959-dc21 2001034817 Transferred to Digital Printing in 2012 For Dominic with all my love. 'Private words addressed to you in public.' This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements viii Abbreviations of Texts by Virginia Woolf x Introduction 1 W 001£ in public 1 The public and the private 6 1 From Private to Public: Hyde Park Gate to Bloomsbury 16 Women in public 16 The journey to Bloomsbury 24 Suffrage 30 London to Sussex 34 2 Representing Women's Lives 42 Publication 42 Writing women: avoiding definition 45 The problema tics of publicity 49 Auto/biography 51 'A Sketch of the Past' 53 'The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn' 56 3 'I wobble'. Narrative Strategies: Public and Private Voices 63 4 Negotiating Genre: Re-visioning History in The Pargiters 88 5 The Reading Public: Respondents to Three Guineas 113 6 'With this odd mix up of public & private I left off': 130 War, Audience and Artist 1938-1941 Invasion of the private by the public 130 Fiction: public as audience 142 The last essays: 'no conclusions' 153 'A little cairn of conjectures' 157 Notes 166 Bibliography 183 Index 192 vii Acknowledgements Many people helped either directly or indirectly with the completion of this book. For the most concrete contributions, I am indebted to David Trotter, Laura Marcus and Trudi Tate. The insight with which they read my work and made suggestions has been invaluable. I am also grateful to Brenda Silver for her comments and for electronic conversations along the way. I would like to offer heartfelt thanks to my colleagues in the English Department at Anglia Polytechnic University for their encouragement and friendship and for providing the conducive atmosphere which enabled me to revise my doctoral thesis. In particular, Mary]oannou, Rebecca Stott and Nigel Wheale read selected chapters with meticulous care. I am grateful for financial support from the following institutions which meant that I was able to come to England to pursue doctoral research on Woolf: Victoria College at the University of Toronto; The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals; University College London; and the London Goodenough Association of Canada. Bet Inglis in the Manuscript Section of the University of Sussex Library has been immensely helpful during my visits to the Monk's House Papers, particularly regarding my continuing work on the Three Guineas letters. I would also like to thank the staff of the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. I am extremely grateful to my editor at Macmillan, Charmian Hearne, for her commitment to the project and for answering my queries. Many other people have offered more indirect, but by no means lesser, support. lowe much to the inspirational teaching of Michael Nobes. To many friends, in England, Canada, America and Germany, I am eternally grateful, for putting up with Woolf talk, and for caring. I have always relied on the encouragement and support of my family, Carolyn, Victor, Nina and Daniel, and they have never once let me down. Above all, I want to thank my partner, Dominic Rowland, for his love and interest during the writing and for his scrupulous proof reading at the end. Quotations from the Monk's House Papers, University of Sussex Library and from the manuscript version of The Pargiters are published courtesy of The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the viii Acknowledgements ix Virginia Woolf Estate. Quotations from the Three Guineas letters, Monk's House Papers, are published courtesy of Adrian Peasgood, Librarian, University of Sussex Library. A version of Chapter Three was originally published as 'Virginia Woolf's Narrative Strategies: Negotiating Between Public and Private' in the Journal of Modern Literature, 21.2 (1996): 133-48. A version of Chapter Five was originally published as 'Virginia Woolf and Reading Communities: Respondents to Three Guineas' in Virginia Woolf and Communities: Selected Papers from the Eighth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, ed. Laura Davis and Jeanette McVicker (Pace University Press, 1999) and a version of the last section of Chapter Two was previously published as "'My poor private voice": Virginia Woolf and Auto/Biography' in Representing Lives: Women's Lives Into Print, ed. Alison Donnell and Pauline Polkey (Macmillan, 2000).