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FEMINIST ESSAYS ON VIRGINIA WOOLF  \nNEW FEMINIST ESSAYSON VIRGINIA WOOLF  \nEdited byJANE MARCUS  \nM  \nJane Marcus 1981  \nSoftcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1981978-0-333-28997-6All rights reserved.No part of this publication may bereproduced or transmitted,in any form or by any means,without permission  \nFirst published 1981 byTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTDLondon and BasingstokeCompanies and representativesthroughout the world  \nISBN 978-1-349-05488-6  \nISBN 978-1-349-05486-2(eBook)  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-05486-2  \nFor Lisaa daughter to think forward through  \nContents  \nAcknowledgements  \n1XX1  \nNotes on the Contributors  \nIntroduction  \nxiii  \nJane Marcus  \n1 Thinking Back through Our MothersJane Marcus  \n1  \n2 Woolf's 'Magical Garden of Women'31Ellen Hawkes  \n3 Shakespeare's Other Sister61Louise A.DeSalvo  \n4 Some Female Versions of Pastoral:The Voyage Outand Matriarchal Mythologies82  \nMadeline Moore  \n5 Jacob's Room as Comedy:Woolf's ParodicBildungsroman105  \nJudy Little  \n6 Mrs Dalloway:the Communion of Saints125Suzette A.Henke  \n7 Where the Spear Plants Grew:the Ramsays'Marriage in To the Lighthouse148Jane Lilienfeld  \nviii  \n8 Why is Orlando Difficult?170  \nJ.J.Wilson  \n9 Private Brother,Public World185Sara Ruddick  \n10 The Politics of City Space in The Years:StreetLove,Pillar Boxes and Bridges216  \nSusan Squier  \n11 What is to Console Us?:the Politics ofDeception in Woolf's Short Stories238  \nSelma Meyerowitz  \n12 Virginia Woolf's Last Words on Words:Between the Acts and'Anon'  \n253  \nNora Eisenberg  \n267  \nIndex  \n# Acknowledgements\n\nThe editor and contributors would like to thank the followingfor their help with the preparation of this book:the Henry W.and Albert A.Berg Collection,Astor,Lenox and TildenFoundation,the New York Public Library and its helpfulcurator,Dr Lola L.Szladits.They also wish to thank the manycolleagues,friends and students who have contributed somuch to new feminist criticism of Virginia Woolf,and aregratefulto those who have provided a forum for their work inthe Modern Language Association Woolf Seminar,and theconferences at Santa Cruz,Princeton and Bucknell,wheremany of these papers were first read.Brenda Silver has beenan invaluable help in answering our questions about VirginiaWoolf's reading notes,and is a silent contributor to thisvolume.  \nThe editor wishes to thank the National Endowment for theHumanities for a research fellowship which supported thiswork,the staff of the Matematisk Institut,Aarhus,Denmark,for their generous help in providing facilities in which topursue this project,and Michael Marcus,whobuilt her a studyin which to finish it.  \nThe editor and publishers wish to thank Angelica Garnettand Quentin Bell,on behalf of the Literary Estate of VirginiaWoolf,and The Hogarth Press Ltd and Harcourt BraceJovanovich Inc.,for permission to quote from the followingpublished works:extracts from Jacob's Room,The Years,Between the 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