Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read

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Contents Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 1. Early Diary Influences 11 Virginia Woolf’s 1897 Diary 12 Sir Walter Scott’s “Gurnal” 14 Fanny Burney’s Diary 19 Samuel Pepys’s Diary 31 William Johnson Cory’s Journals 37 Virginia Woolf’s 1897 Diary Concluded 40 2. The Experimenter 45 Virginia Woolf’s 1899 Warboys Diary 45 3. Choosing the Outsider Role 54 Virginia Woolf’s 1903 Diary 55 James Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 67 4. Professional Writer 75 Virginia Woolf’s 1904–1905 Diary 75 5. Embracing the Unconscious 81 Virginia’s Woolf’s Ghostly 1905 Cornwall Diary 82 Virginia Woolf’s 1906–1908 Great Britain Travel Diary 87 William Allingham’s Diary 102 Lady Dorothy Nevill’s Note-books 107 Lady Charlotte Bury’s Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting 109 Virginia Woolf’s Great Britain Travel Diary Concluded 114 6. The Problem of Description 121 Virginia Woolf’s 1906–1909 Continental Travel Diary 122 The Journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland 129 Virginia Woolf’s Continental Travel Diary Concluded 132 Virginia Woolf’s 1909 Life Diary 135 Dr. Charles Meryon’s Diaries Celebrating Lady Hester Stanhope 147 Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Early Journals 152 Mary Coleridge’s Diary 158 7. The Diary Coalesces 163 Virginia Woolf’s 1915 Diary 163 Mary Berry’s Journals 173 Virginia Woolf’s Asheham House Natural History Diary: 1917–1918 183 Virginia Woolf’s 1917–1918 Collaborative Hogarth House Diary 188 The Journals of Edmond and Jules de Goncourt 198 Stopford Brooke’s Diary 206 Virginia Woolf’s 1918 Coalescing Hogarth House Diary: January 4–July 23 213 Epilogue 225 Notes 227 Works Consulted 241 Index 247 ...