Edited by Daniel Ferrer, Monica Latham & Anne-Laure Rigeade
Virginia Woolf’s reading notes offer a fascinating insight into her mind at work, reading “with a pen and notebook, seriously”, engaged in a lively dialogue with the literary tradition, receptive to the books she is reading and preparing at the same time the critical work that she intends to produce. The editions in this series situate the notes in the immediate context of Woolf’s writing project and in the general context of her relationship to the authors being read. They provide a full transcription of each note and whenever possible quote the passage in the source from which it derives, and identify the place where it has been used. They offer a stimulating demonstration of practical intertextuality in progress.
Volume I
Virginia Woolf’s Reading Notebooks 14 and 46
Scheduled for January 2026
Virginia Woolf’s reading notebooks published and presented in this volume (used for the preparation of “Phases of Fiction”, one of her most original works, and for several essays and reviews) provide a stimulating demonstration of practical intertextuality in progress.