Freshman Preceptorial: The Nature of Wisdom

Virginia Woolf and the "Moments of Being & Non-Being" in Context:
Library and Internet Resources on Woolf and Her Times

Schaffer Library

Action Menu:

Home Pages:

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

British English for American Readers: A dictionary of the language, customs, and places of British life and literature. David Grote. Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992.

A reference source about British literature - part dictionary, guidebook, history, and British culture. Organized as a dictionary, with entries for terms, names, titles, ranks, and everyday words not part of the typical American vocabulary.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PE 1704 .G76 1992

British Writers. Editor-in-chief, Ian Scott-Kilvert. New York: Scribner, c1979-1984.

Volume 7: Includes a short biographical section, with a survey of Woolf's principal writings and an assessment of her work as a whole.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PR 85 .B688

Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978-.

Volume   36: British Novelists 1890-1929
Volume 100: Modern British Essayists contains an extensive bio-critical essay on Woolf.
Volume 162: British Short-Fiction Writers 1915-1945

CALL NUMBER: Ref PS 221 .D510

The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, editors. London: Batsford, 1990.

Brief biographical entry.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PR 113 .F450 1990

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978-.

Excerpts from criticism - includes biographical information, principal works, and bibliographies for additional research.

Volume 1, 5:	Complete career coverage
Volume 20:	Presents criticism of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Volume 34:	Entry on the Bloomsbury Group
Volume 43:	Presents criticism of Woolf's essays
Volume 56:	Presents criticism of Woolf's Orlando: A biography

CALL NUMBER: Ref PR 6045 .O72 Z729

"Virginia Woolf and Modernism" [ Online ] Available: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/workshop97/gribbin/frames.html [Accessed 15 Nov 2000].

Provided by the University of Virginia, "a sampling of Virginia Woolf's early book reviews and essays in which we see her attempting to both identify and shape the new fiction of the early twentieth century."

Virginia Woolf A to Z: a comprehensive reference for students, teachers, and common readers to her life, work and critical reception. Mark Hussey. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

"Intended to provide both a quick reference to and also a comprehensive overview of Woolf's writings and life.

CALL NUMBER:  PR 6045 .O72 Z729 1996

"Virginia Woolf on Women and Fiction." Rich, Joel and Nancy Henderson. [Online] Available: http://209.35.221.160/woolf/ [Accessed 15 Nov 2000].

This is an ongoing distance learning project originally developed in the Summer of 1997 during a classroom course presented by Joel Rich in the University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies, Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults.

"Virginia Woolf's Orlando: The Book as Critic." Tetterton, Kelly. [ Online ] Available: http://www.tetterton.net/orlando/orlando95_talk.html [Accessed 15 Nov 2000].

A paper presented to The Fifth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference at Otterbein College, June 18, 1995 focusing on the physical presentation of Woolf's Orlando as a critical commentary on the text within.

---

"Woolf, Adeline Virginia (Br. writ.)." Britannica Online. [ Online ] "http://www.eb.com:180/cgi-bin/g?DocF=index/wo/olf.html [Accessed 15 Nov 2000].

Available to members of the Union community via Britannica Online, this article contains a biographical essay and includes references to her influences and contributions to English Literature, narration, etc.

Bibliographies and Research Guides

A bibliography of Virginia Woolf. B.J. Kirkpatrick. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

CALL NUMBER: Z8984.2 .K5 1980

Virginia Woolf: a guide to research. Thomas Jackson Rice. New York: Garland Pub., 1984.

A selective annotated bibliography of works by and about Virginia Woolf. Includes a checklist of dissertations on Virginia Woolf.

CALL NUMBER:  PR 6045 .072 R50 1984

Virginia Woolf: an annotated bibliography of criticism 1915-1974. Robin Majumdar. New York: Garland Pub., 1976.

Includes with annotations, almost all items pertaining to the criticism of Virginia Woolf's works published between 1915 and 1974.

CALL NUMBER: PR 6045 .O72 Z459 M30 1976

SOURCES OF RESEARCH MATERIALS: BOOKS

Searching the MINERVA Online Catalog

SEARCH BY AUTHOR:

SEARCH BY BOOK TITLE:

SEARCH BY SUBJECT:

THE VIRTUAL LIBRARY

Relevant World-Wide Web Sites for Background Information on Woolf and her Work

• Virginia Woolf Web
  The Virginia Woolf Web offers a complete guide to Virginia Woolf and her works. The site provides the complete text of four of her novels and four of her short stories, as well a chronology of her life, a photo gallery, descriptions of other members of her family, and a collection of links to other
  Virginia Woolf sites.

  Address: http://www.utoronto.ca/IVWS/

• Bloomsbury: Books Art & Design
  An exhibition at Victoria University Library, Toronto. This exhibition honors the memory of Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman and commemorates the twenty-fifth anniversary of her founding of the Virginia Woolf/Hogarth Press/Bloomsbury Collection at Victoria University Library.

  Address: http://vicu.utoronto.ca/library/exhibitions/bloomsbury/

  ---

  Miscellaneous resources:

  The International Virginia Woolf Society
  VWOOLF Electronic Discussion List
  Mrs. Dalloway's London
  The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
  SociÈtÈ d'Študes Woolfiennes
  The Virginia Woolf Society of Japan

Manuscript & Collection Information

Manuscript Collection (University of Sussex) - searchable index

• Leonard and Virginia Woolf introduction

• Handlist to the Monks House Papers

• The Handlist to the Leonard Woolf Papers

• Charleston Papers introduction - contains correspondence Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot, Frances Partridge, and others connected with the Bloomsbury group.
  Nicolson Papers Introduction

• Berg Collection (New York Public Library)

Other Library Collections

• Victoria University Library - (Virginia Woolf Collection)
  University of Saskatchewan Library - (Woolf/Hogarth Press/Bloomsbury Collection)
  Sweet Briar College Library - (Special Collections)
  CWRU University Library (Manuscripts in Special Collections)
  Smith College Library (The Mortimer Rare Book Room)
  Washington State University (Holland Library: MASC) Includes an online exhibit of Selected Bindings by Virginia Woolf.
  Reading University, UK (Hogarth Press/Chatto & Windus Collection)
  The Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Columbia University

Links to Electronic Texts:

• Great Books Online - Bartleby.com
• Voyage Out
• Monday or Tuesday - Eight Stories
• Night and Day

Useful Web Sites for Literary Resources

• A Literary Index
  A Literary Index provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature.
  Address: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html

• Literary Resources on the Net
  Links to Internet resources from a wide range of periods, nationalities, and genres.
  Address: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

• Schaffer Library Sources in Literary Resources
  Maintained by Schaffer Library, the site identifies Library and Internet resources suitable for students and faculty conducting research in English and American literature.
  Address: http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/LIBRARY/virt/literary.html

• Voice of the Shuttle - English Literature Modern
  A sub page of "Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research," an index for the Humanities maintained by Alan Liu, a Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
  Address: http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-min.html

  ---

SOURCES OF RESEARCH MATERIALS: PERIODICALS DATABASES

Scholarly periodical databases give a researcher access to articles on specific subjects that have appeared in variety of periodicals. Such databases may cover a broad area of study the way Humanities Abstracts and Arts and Humanities Search do. Others, such as MLA Bibliography, focus more sharply. Most journal articles listed are written by scholars and aimed at other researchers in that field, making them particularly important research sources. Searching a database will give the researcher the bibliographic citation needed to identify and locate a specific work on a topic: author, title of article, journal title, volume and issue number, date, and pages. An abstract briefly summarizes an article's contents.

Some online databases-- EBSCOhost, H.W. Wilson Select Full Text in FirstSearch, and Project Muse--include the full text of at least some of the articles online. Databases are accessible via the Library's Electronic Resources Page.

Relevant online databases for research on Woolf include:

• Historical Abstracts
• EBSCOhost
• MLA International Bibliography
• PCI Web - Periodicals Contents Index

OCLC FirstSearch Databases:

• Arts and Humanities Search -- citation index
• Biography Index
• Contemporary Women's Issues
• Humanities Abstracts
• WorldCat - books and other library materials

---

---

Last revised on November 15, 2000